A friend asked me if my company is going to fire half of my team. He doesn’t write software. A few weeks earlier he had installed Claude Code, described an app he wanted, and got one. More or less.…

I realised something today while sat in the chair at the hairdressers as Suzanne got out the razor. The fact that, as a child probably from the age of 4...

An open letter to Cocoa, one month after saying goodbye

Sometimes I tell new people what I used to be like, and their immediate response is, I can't see it. You're not like that at all. Well, yes. For more than a decade, I've surrounded myself with…

Want to own an inn with a dozen rail cars? A historic station in beautiful Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia? A dining car?

It took me a whopping 21 days to send 100 emails . That's 66 unprompted emails and 34 replies in total. I sent 53 messages to Bear Blog users and 47 to others. The most messages I sent in a single…

I'm just waking up and I'm so confuseddd. I checked my bank account, cause I used my credit card to pay for gas the other day, and my credit card is in the negatives cause apparently I got some kind…

I am a different person in my own journals. It's probably because I know that no one will see what I wrote besides me. That's freeing. I can be whoever I want to be and I have no obligation to share…

[Finished reading The Bullet Journal Method.]

I’m sorry to have to tell you that there isn’t going to be a full post today, as there should have been. I had intended to write about Rachel Kushner’s Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake (2024)…

I understand being mad, I understand not tolerating it, but I think there's an uncomfortable truth, representing the world being a messy place where few things are completely black and white.

I read this post on the trending page and I thought it would be fun to make my own list, because I like to make lists. Clouds. Predictable I know, I already talked about the reasons. Mechanical…

Looking back.

Been a while since I've last updated, I wish I could've done it sooner! But, in the time I've been away, I've uprooted my entire life to live in another country, I've had to live on a sofa for weeks…

Surprise! I'm not dead! 1 day, 5 hours ago

This is a long page, sorry. Almost any few inches of it would be enough to have Donald Trump removed from office and brought up on criminal charges, if America was a sane society. ... [read more]

nivs I second that recommendation: An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail. I've been using FastMail for over a year now and I like the progress they're making adding useful new features to…

Thought I might try to practice some gratitude journalling, but by sharing things I've liked/enjoyed/read/watched in the last week. Dave's Killer Bread Cinnamon Raisin Bagels. These are actually…

0:4 It’s been a while since I wrote my last post about a match involving my favourite club, SV Wehen Wiesbaden. I’m not quite sure why, but I promise to do better, as I still have a season ticket and…

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a slate-blue T-shirt, olive-green shorts, and white socks. How does Dave feel today? Dave feels poorly. What are the factors affecting Dave's mood? Dave's…

8661/21580We drove across to Newquay today, a town that I'd holidayed in in the 90s and Catie had spent a bit of time in in the Noughties. I didn't recognise much.After a tricky couple of…

What I'm... Working on Chasing course issues in our online content packages. That's again the majority of my time this week Getting a bike rack installed on our Venue Rehearsing Sides for an audition…

I received a message from an ex-client; he demanded me to answer his questions. Two weeks back, him and the committee made me wait for an hour to present the renewal quote. When was my turn to…

We'll call this Proof of Life, because I haven't written anything in public for a while. I can blame work, life reasons, the various heat waves, summer holidays (not that I've been on…

I’m stopping over at the Frankfurt Airport right now, and just noticed this in the AMEX app when making my way to the Lufthansa lounge:Effective October 1, 2026, eligible Card Members will no longer…

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Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ It’s been a pretty typical week around the Fahrni household, except for my brain. I’ve been struggling recently. I’m on edge, a little depressed.…

The same feature took a weekend on a laptop and a quarter in the product. The model was identical both times. Everything around it was not.

Plans for Quartier Molson are going ahead with approval for taller buildings than allowed in the zoning. A floated referendum didn’t collect enough signatures.

Bicycle theft is the number-one crime issue confronting our society today. If you have a nice bicycle – or even a crappy one – and you park it outside, someone may try to steal it. Worse, the entire…

Allie just went for a bike ride across the GW bridge and Raoul made this blog! Allie is teaching Raoul how to make espresso with our new FB Marketplace Breville purchase. Raoul is enjoying nursing…

Monday, August 17 The Depot Town parking lot next to Frog Island is finally being resurfaced, a development decades overdue. I get my watch battery replaced at Olde Towne Coin & Gold, then drive west…

T-shaped Skills We won’t repeat but enough has been said about T-shaped skills as well as their `π` and `m` shaped extensions. Sticking with the `T` shape, each individual or…

Years and years and years and years ago... Lester Square and me organised what we called Music Halls, but what were really Music Free For Alls (time limit ten minutes to avoid boring acts). we put…

During my time working at Lifehacker, I wrote an article about how late bloomers could catch up in their career. It started as a personal challenge; I felt like I was behind in starting my…

Sometimes a hobby is just a passion and not a side hustle

I generally enjoy trips to Iowa, but not this one.

It’s tough to survive in corporate life if you don’t have someone who makes your day. It gives you a reason to wake up and look forward to going to a place that seems designed to keep you…

Abingdon welcomed over 40 visitors from Argentan in Normandy today (Saturday 22nd August 2026) as the two towns celebrated 70 years of friendship and twinning. The anniversary celebrations began in…

Well, the weekly RSS Club update is a day late. Look, I have to level with you: work has been off the hook lately. It’s been that way for months, and the last couple of weeks have been a surge…

Canada has a smart, highly educated, and entrepreneurial population base. The problem is that too many are leaving to build elsewhere. Here are some alarming stats from Barn Ventures, using data from…

Just a regular dude posting his thoughts.

Tyler Austin Harper: Yesterday in London, Jason Arday, the controversy-plagued British academic and author, was found dead. Made famous as the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s more than…

9:39 PM Unfamiliarity is hard at the beginning. We all know it. Its the uncomfortable feeling that doesn't really go away. No matter how much you and I like to get used to it, or how much other…

interviewers love asking, “where do you see yourself in five years?” but maybe a better question would be: where do you see yourself in one hour, after this interview is over? you shouldn’t have to…

After three F1-free weekends since Hungary, the summer break is over and racing resumes with a sprint-format in Zandvoort. The main news is that HAD has injured his hand and so will not participate…

Sunday ‘Cats eyes removed’ Spend the next 10 minutes trying to work out a short but less weird statement they could’ve put on the road sign. ‘Retroreflective road markings removed’ just doesn’t…

Yard sales are dangerous. I don't need any more things, unless it's a pin, hat, t-shirt...

Everyone eventually becomes a story. Make your retirement tale something to be proud of. Learn more by reading this week’s terrific links. Retirement is far more than a math problem. The…