A reverse-chronological list of the fragments that currently make up this site. Why fragments?

July 13, 2024 6.32pm

What are you doing again?

June 25, 2024 12.10am

Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Pete Millspaugh, Things I found interesting in Bonnie Nardi’s “A Small Matter of Programming”

Craig Mod, Continuous Uninterrupted Solo Walks

May 4, 2024 11.29am

Sara Hendren, not that kind of constraint

Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Paul Holdengräber, Adam Phillips, The Art of Nonfiction No. 7

John Muir

Jared White, Why I’m Ready to Party Like It’s 1999…Again

Paul Graham, The Best Essay

Paul Graham, The Best Essay

Dan Luu, Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation

Publilius Syrus

March 4, 2024 4.56pm

Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic: Pluralistic is four; The Bezzle excerpt (Part III)

Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

John Gall, Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail

February 27, 2024 8.48pm

Ran Prieur, Feeling Good

February 22, 2024 7.19pm

Mike Grindle, Some Thoughts in Lieu of an Abandoned Post

Roger Ebert, Life Itself

Notes on scanning negatives

Where are you peculiar?

Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations

Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations

Jamie Crisman, Getting Out, Getting Lost

January 21, 2024 1.27pm

Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Robin Berjon, Web Tiles

Jason Scott, Archiving in the Time of Streaming

Vipassanā

Sunshine, windburn, summat to do with summits

September 30, 2023 2.27pm

Categories as taxonomy, tags as folksonomy

The first hundred days

September 21, 2023 8.59am

September 20, 2023 6.58pm

September 20, 2023 6.47pm

September 20, 2023 2.11pm

SEP 60: A stricter metadata vocabulary

September 20, 2023 10.50am

September 19, 2023 6.04pm

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World

September 17, 2023 11.08am

Picturing people on the walk

Hurdling over the Dolomites

September 5, 2023 9.25am

Between the mountains and the First Two Pages of Frankenstein

From Triglav

What's not to like?

Finding joy

August 18, 2023 6.01pm

At play with photography in Innsbruck

Add HEIF image support

August 10, 2023 10.43am

Fix: Images no longer clickable when non-modal

July 11, 2023 8.38am

Vaber

July 10, 2023 7.56pm

July 8, 2023 6.06pm

July 5, 2023 7.54pm

July 5, 2023 9.43am

Google, Google Earth

G.K. Chesterton, The New Jersusalem

David Pierce, Who killed Google Reader?

June 30, 2023 4.02pm

June 30, 2023 3.17pm

June 29, 2023 9.56pm

June 22, 2023 8.17am

Why the walk?

June 20, 2023 11.36pm

Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

✉ More photographs than footsteps or words

✉ Thinking about the shape of the walk

June 16, 2023 9.17pm

June 16, 2023 6.52pm

June 16, 2023 6.09pm

✉ I hope the cows don't mind

June 15, 2023 4.42pm

✉ Joining the North Downs Way

✉ A walking day

June 13, 2023 4.41pm

✉ The last of the familiar faces

✉ Catch up with mum

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

✉ Sensible shoes

Craig Mod & Dan Rubin, Koya Bound: Eight Days on the Kumano Kodo

✉ A trip down memory lane

✉ A warm welcome to the walk

SEP 59: Manifest test

June 5, 2023 11.00pm

June 3, 2023 2.57pm

N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface

May 27, 2023 2.29pm

Dramatic Identity

Nigel Calder

May 18, 2023 3.32pm

May 18, 2023 2.00pm

Giacomo Casanove

Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith

Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

May 15, 2023 12.30am

Books (maybe) for the walk

Werner Herzog

The countries in between

SEP 58: Define asset transformations within manifest

Bessie A. Stanley, What Constitutes Success?

SEP 57: Reference/include any file from/in documents

May 7, 2023 9.28pm

Wanderer Server Configuration

Fire of Love

Nhat Hanh, How to Love

Not That Kind of Love

May 5, 2023 11.42pm

Dead Poets Society

Links sans commentary

Temple Grandin

May 1, 2023 3.31pm

May 1, 2023 3.08pm

May 1, 2023 3.08pm

SEP 56: Add datetime to metadata fields

May 1, 2023 12.26pm

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

SEP 55: Syntax for tasks and spaced repitition cards

SEP 54: Sidenotes

SEP 53: Metadata switch uid to key

SEP 52: Convert all datetime objects to be timezone aware

Richard Feynman, Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

April 30, 2023 1.47pm

Daniel Lawrence Lu, DLLU

A love of files

April 29, 2023 9.43pm

April 29, 2023 9.26pm

SEP 51: Conflict free editing

SEP 50: A personal taxonomical structure

Richard Feynman, Feynman: The pleasure of Finding Things Out

SEP 49: Handler for asset referencing

SEP 48: Remove assets from notes directory

Switched from markdown to Djot

April 22, 2023 9.24pm

smitty1e, Jokes are the unit tests of our understanding

April 20, 2023 10.58am

April 20, 2023 8.30am

April 20, 2023 12.50am

SEP 47: Separate present from memory

Linking forwards

April 19, 2023 10.27pm

D.H. Lawrence

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Ansel Adams

Wouter Groeneveld, Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs

SEP 46: Per document changelogs

When you have the right building in the wrong location

Jamie Zawinski, Technological Antisolutions

Arthur C. Train & Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth

How to find your mum's keys after she's given up hope

April 19, 2023 10.26am

April 18, 2023 2.24pm

Silas Jelley's Definitions

Implement document transclusion

Transclusion

✅ SEP 45: Transclusion of documents

April 18, 2023 12.49am

Matt Webb, I wish my web server were in the corner of my room

Films that I like

Out beyond the edge of the map

April 17, 2023 9.12pm

Monsieur Lazhar

SEP 44: Short Reference Syntax

Tymeful

April 17, 2023 3.35pm

April 17, 2023 3.06pm

April 17, 2023 2.52pm

Knut Melvær, Thoughts On Markdown

SEP 43: Distinguish types, classes, tags in collections

Wikipedia, 2008 Universal Studios fire

Ryan J. A. Murhpy, When and how to publish notes: Publishing thinking effectively and efficiently

Kyle Neath, URL Design

Silas Jelley's Collection of Quotes

Silas Jelley's References

SEP 42: Expose Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)

April 16, 2023 10.19pm

Navalny

Metadata overhaul

Silas Jelley's Links

✅ SEP 41: New metadata element: class

April 15, 2023 5.35pm

My future children and me.

SEP 40: Graphs and maps: contextualising with visualisations

Make page/site metadata accessible from HTML

SEP 39: Metadata: Enhanced location

✅ SEP 38: Document Type: References

Atomic Design — Brad Frost

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

✅ SEP 37: Convention for use of singular v. plural in metadata

April 13, 2023 4.57pm

April 13, 2023 4.46pm

unknown

Temple Grandin

I can eat cake!

Merlin Mann, Merlin's Wisdom Project

April 12, 2023 8.59pm

SEP 36: Build a link archive

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Mother Night

Kyle Aster, Toward a More Resilient Future

Kyle Aster, Taste and The Zen of GitHub

That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen

Shōtetsu, Snow in a Garden

SEP 35: Incremental builds

Aaron Swartz, Release Late, Release Rarely

SEP 34: Overhaul image pipeline

Maciej Cegłowski

SEP 33: Substantive revision metadata

April 11, 2023 7.06pm

Bookmark a page

🏗 SEP 32: Remove tags from index pages

SEP 31: Add title elements to internal links

SEP 30: Adjust site style to permit offsetting

unknown

SEP 29: Include every file in the data tree

SEP 28: Check for slug collisions

SEP 27: Split stylesheet into components

Jason Scott, destruction

Fix footer to viewport bottom

🏗 SEP 26: Make page/site metadata accessible from HTML

✅ SEP 25: Fix footer to bottom of viewport

Ask Culture meets Guess Culture

SEP 24: Case of frontmatter keys

SEP 23: Language metadata

SEP 22: Frontmatter Formatting

April 8, 2023 11.51pm

SEP 21: Reject relative URLS

SEP 20: Add timezone information to all document metadata timestamps

✅ SEP 19: Add a sitewide count of backlinks

SEP 18: Document Summaries

SEP 17: Document Transclusion

✅ SEP 16: Extract backlinks from plaintext

SEP 15: Switch to RSS for feeds (currently using Atom)

✅ SEP 14: UUID collision checking

Understanding is everything

Understanding is misunderstanding

Understanding is a dialogue

Waste is misunderstanding

SEP 13: Switch to a more reasonable source markup language

✅ SEP 12: Reference documents by their URN/UUID

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth

Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin

Jeanette Winterson, Jeanette Winterson: It is the Imagination that Counts

Via Francigena

Ansel Adams

March 15, 2023 5.43pm

Walking to India

Before the walk

March 14, 2023 1.50pm

March 14, 2023 1.50pm

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

Rumi

January 31, 2023 2.23pm

Dreams of a community

January 29, 2023 10.30pm

January 29, 2023 12.13pm

January 25, 2023 8.51pm

SEP 11: Series metadata

Why I like small spaces

January 24, 2023 1.32pm

I Am the Ghost Here

Are meaning and meaning-making inherently emotional?

January 12, 2023 8.13am

January 12, 2023 7.42am

January 11, 2023 1.01pm

January 8, 2023 9.46am

What's the difference between the shell and a terminal?

A command by any other name: The utility of aliases and wrappers in the shell

SEP 10: Assumed Audiences

SEP 9: Metadata: Document alts

December 13, 2022 3.47pm

George Box (Statistician), Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building

December 13, 2022 9.57am

D. W. Brogan, The American Character

Joseph Chamberlain

Writing simply

R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008

What would it take to live a life without keys?

December 8, 2022 2.44pm

I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person

December 4, 2022 9.01am

December 4, 2022 8.58am

November 15, 2022 9.00pm

November 15, 2022 10.33am

Susan Sontag, To Tell A Story

October 30, 2022 6.29pm

October 27, 2022 1.38pm

September 27, 2022 12.48pm

David Allen, Getting Things Done

Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science, Caltech commencement address

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lost Road and Other Writings

September 14, 2022 10.59am

unknown, probably not Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

August 28, 2022 6.51pm

August 25, 2022 3.12pm

🏗 SEP 8: Create a shorthand for proposals

🏗 SEP 7: Consolidate collection definitions/attributes

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker

August 24, 2022 5.28pm

August 24, 2022 4.20pm

August 22, 2022 11.57am

August 22, 2022 10.39am

There are no official observations

August 21, 2022 8.57am

August 20, 2022 4.13pm

August 20, 2022 1.38pm

August 19, 2022 11.02am

August 19, 2022 4.41am

August 18, 2022 4.41pm

August 18, 2022 4.39pm

A place of focus

August 13, 2022 5.18pm

August 9, 2022 2.23pm

August 8, 2022 10.51am

August 3, 2022 9.55am

The Count and His Cristos

July 26, 2022 6.20pm

July 21, 2022 10.57pm

July 21, 2022 6.25pm

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

July 21, 2022 11.45am

July 18, 2022 7.17pm

July 15, 2022 1.50pm

July 15, 2022 12.54pm

Genesis 4:12

July 14, 2022 8.02pm

Pyrrhonian Skepticism

Semantic linefeeds, a writing aid

July 14, 2022 12.51pm

SEP 6: Insert image dimensions into figures at build time

SEP 5: Definition of breadcrumb navigation within metadata

✅ SEP 4: Add taxonomical types alongside tags

July 12, 2022 1.55pm

Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents

SEP 3: Define arbitrary collections in logic

SEP 2: Create documents more directly from living data

SEP 1: URL traversal/scoping/discovery

Proposals for the improvement of this site

July 11, 2022 6.51pm

Travel in the time of coronavirus

Systems designed around the average person are doomed to fail

July 11, 2022 1.09pm

July 10, 2022 9.33pm

Hayao Miyazaki, 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki

July 10, 2022 5.39pm

A stubborn fool

July 10, 2022 10.24am

Lamar Burgess, Minority Report

July 7, 2022 8.39pm

July 7, 2022 11.38am

General purpose, not always fit for purpose

July 6, 2022 9.51pm

A micro exhibit of good design

July 3, 2022 9.04pm

Six of seven

It's not enough to respond in kind

Ideas, braids, snakes and ladders

July 1, 2022 9.40pm

June 29, 2022 9.57pm

June 29, 2022 9.28pm

June 29, 2022 9.00pm

June 29, 2022 2.07pm

Do drugs, stay out of school, talk to strangers

June 29, 2022 11.14am

Maciej Cegłowski, The Website Obesity Crisis

Subsetting fonts for faster responses and rendering

June 28, 2022 9.43pm

June 28, 2022 8.31pm

June 28, 2022 2.44pm

Fixed backlinks not all populating due to KeyError

Symbiosis in thought and design

What will the tools for thought space look like in 5 years?

Meaning is made in the making of meaning

All vim no wow

Not another Eble

June 26, 2022 11.12am

June 26, 2022 11.07am

Here in the loud and now

Is death inside or outside of life? Within or without?

What is life?

June 24, 2022 4.13pm

June 24, 2022 1.48pm

June 24, 2022 10.20am

June 24, 2022 10.06am

June 22, 2022 9.54pm

June 22, 2022 9.51pm

June 17, 2022 11.19am

Bad Eble the third

June 16, 2022 2.41pm

June 16, 2022 10.42am

Durable design of digital artefacts

Hooked on the surf

June 15, 2022 5.21pm

June 15, 2022 1.53pm

An Eble a day keeps the doctor away

Stuck in the web

June 14, 2022 1.09pm

Once more into the deep

June 14, 2022 9.44am

June 14, 2022 8.34am

June 14, 2022 8.33am

Notting quite like Notting Hill

Why is CSS such a poor language for layout?

Benjamin Whorf

June 12, 2022 9.19pm

June 12, 2022 9.13pm

June 12, 2022 1.32pm

June 12, 2022 1.08pm

A couple cool contemporary contributions to chaos

Your native language affects how you see this image

June 12, 2022 10.08am

June 12, 2022 6.50am

Egypt through the eyes of David Roberts

June 11, 2022 11.19am

June 11, 2022 11.11am

June 11, 2022 10.41am

June 10, 2022 10.05pm

Princess Mononoke, my first Ghibli

June 10, 2022 6.25pm

June 10, 2022 6.25pm

June 10, 2022 6.24pm

June 10, 2022 6.16pm

June 10, 2022 6.12pm

June 10, 2022 6.09pm

June 10, 2022 5.04pm

June 10, 2022 4.54pm

June 10, 2022 12.00pm

June 10, 2022 11.06am

June 10, 2022 8.55am

June 9, 2022 7.42am

June 7, 2022 8.10pm

Planting begins anew

June 2, 2022 8.50pm

What is this thing we're all complicit in?

June 2, 2022 8.13pm

What is Craig Mod doing?

June 1, 2022 6.57pm

June 1, 2022 6.36pm

June 1, 2022 5.11pm

June 1, 2022 2.57pm

June 1, 2022 2.36pm

June 1, 2022 1.43pm

May 31, 2022 6.27pm

An uncanny valley of speed

May 30, 2022 12.35pm

May 30, 2022 11.52am

May 29, 2022 9.06pm

May 29, 2022 8.53pm

May 29, 2022 2.40pm

May 29, 2022 2.31pm

May 29, 2022 2.21pm

Wandering on, journeys I have in mind

May 28, 2022 8.23am

May 27, 2022 4.09pm

May 26, 2022 9.14pm

May 26, 2022 8.37pm

May 26, 2022 5.28pm

May 26, 2022 6.56am

May 26, 2022 6.49am

May 26, 2022 6.39am

Richard O’Keefe

May 14, 2022 7.47am

May 9, 2022 4.52pm

Lentil-soup

Keep your daily notes separate

What's in a tent? (besides me)

May 1, 2022 12.16pm

What do I believe?

A stream of truthlessness

April 28, 2022 8.56pm

Putting the useful in a uniform

Reduce friction at the point of creativity

Taxonomies should be emergent and asynchronous

Premature labelling inhibits exploration

Good jeans are nice, but joy is better

Building this site

Dashes, firewood, and philosophy

April 21, 2022 4.42pm

A draft design document for this site

Away for Easter, away for work

Chilly reminiscences and guilt

Marshmallows, money, life, and logs

April 13, 2022 6.15am

Big birds and battle cries

Back to the wild, nodes, Dorian Taylor

Data structures, late night fixes

Not getting what I see

The matter of me

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn

April 7, 2022 8.32pm

A day off

I lost a thought today

To be a child again

We shape our software; thereafter our software shapes us

March 23, 2022 7.14am

March 22, 2022 6.48pm

March 21, 2022 11.21pm

March 21, 2022 11.04pm

Changelog

March 20, 2022 9.51am

Capturing lightning is hard

Vannevar Bush, As We May Think

Taking durable notes

Tool sheds and mountain tarns

An evening of shovelling, shelving, and kimchi

January 28, 2022 7.46pm

Testing effect

The sunburnt country

Tools should be reasonable

September 19, 2021 2.56pm

September 13, 2021 6.54am

The new middlemen

August 28, 2021 5.57pm

Steady states

A users handbook for this site

Nassim Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

Anti fragility

Forcing function

Pangram

They have stories too

The man who walked too fast

Quotes are not notes

Craig Mod on cropping

Te Araroa – The Long Pathway

Corpus

Commonplace book

Lockdown Mode

Random access

Compound interest

Truth may be vital, but without love it is also unbearable.

Adriana Trigiani, All the Stars in the Heavens

✉ Afghans, speculators, and Timothy Snyder

The forests of Northland

July 13, 2021 5.54pm

Beauty and the beach

A short walk

July 9, 2021 7.46am

A feast of links

✉ Art, ideas, and how we share them

Random with your name on it

I should have kept a journal

Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities

Rooks all the way down

Puffer fish and buried men

Good at nothing

Lessons from the back of beyond

Modern novels

Taking pictures with words

Write the things

A walk between two Wednesdays

A short walk beneath a long white cloud

How do people decide to make major life changes?

September 20, 2020 12.34pm

September 18, 2020 5.18pm

When Alex Hope finds a Prime Minister's passport number

Today I'm rich

Independence for whom

Conceptual Iintegrity by Dorian Taylor

Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Taxonomies through the eyes of Dorian Taylor

Ichi-go ichi-e

Half a world away

On my way to creation

unknown

June 17, 2020 9.43pm

David McCullough

unknown, A place for everything, everything in its place

A thought for tomorrow

Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD

Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD

Eberhard Rechtin, The Art of Systems Architecting (Second Edition)

Mae West

Pope Francis

Pope Francis, The Name of God Is Mercy

Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Phil Karlton, The Curmudgeon's Homepage