they say
this is the city
the city of angels
all i see is dead wings

ok let’s go

what has been going on? big week for snacks. not a big week for getting out of bed and going around the world. maybe next week can look like that?

zeezy is in Oman, hi zeezy!

lots of progress on littlebook. made a little music too. appeared indirectly on the front page of hackernews. lots of phone calls. my bed contains 3 stringed instruments, 2 guitar pedals, 2 synthesizers and a microphone. i’ve gotta go for a walk. i’ll do that now. see you in 20 minutes or so.

tick tock.

there’s nothing but bears and deer out there! and sainsburys prawn sandwiches with tasty seeds in the bread. that’s a good sandwich right there. would anyone like a cup of tea? i’d love a cup of tea. you know what? i’m going to make tea.

water and beasts

been a while since i was out there on all those slippery black rocks with the salty greens and the little snippers sneaking out the gaps and the water crashing into bursts of violent white foam across ones little feeties. gotta get out there soon. the salt and and the seaweed. yum yum yum. lay down on the ground and get splashed on. wake up in the water. play some cards, light a fire, long trip home.

we’re going to visit some animals in Kent next week for my 58th birthday or whatever it is I am now. 23? i’m going to brush a goat, in any case. i’ll be brushing that goat. remind me that we need to bring cucumber sandwiches.

handing you a teabag and saying there you go, you get yourself a wee drink.

i just spent so much time building this little beepulator. i hope that you enjoy using it. the javascript was nothing, but i got really lost in the css for a while. nothing like a good time. i suppose i should make it so my RSS feed just tells you there has been a new post, but not actually include the content. because much of my posts are web-only, and won’t work in a lot of RSS readers.

made the mistake of looking at tomorrow’s work calendar. now i’m hungry. i’ll add some features to lima which i’m now using to configure my computer with docfiles to finally maybe replace my insane emacs docfiles config. one day perhaps i will even be able to free myself from emacs. it needs a few features:

• storing blocks and values as variables
• variable interpolation
• os-specific blocks
• (maybe) executing shell scripts
• running on a bunch of files with shared context

but more importantly:

• eggs
• eggs 
• eggs
• eggs

neat squeakers

nice sneakers

good speakers

let’s sleep

hello pretty thing

s. pellegrino, san pellegrino, sparkling pellegrino, sobriety pellegrino, salty pengüino.

the week was gentle, medium octane, chitter-chatter, yap yap.

my neck is sore!

sunday night, last sunday night, was a very nice night. i ate some limequats. there was more to it than that. more to the night. limequats are very nice.

i made a venison ragu for the 14th. prepared it on the 13th. cooked low for several hours. best ragu i ever made. cooked for hours and hours. then into the fridge and out to the $br-wn corner for to prepare for the m-rning.

+ in the morning we walked to imad’s syrian kitchen for breakfast, which was very wonderful and flavoursome and gentle and there was nobody else around. later there was lunch at the yellow bittern which was like dinner at grandma kitty’s house. i’d like to make a big pie for everyone, too. the mashed potato was butter yellow. if i go again i’ll ask where is the champ.

+ at night we set the projector up to point at the whiteboard and watched lady + the tramp (live action) and cried. it turns out two restaurants in 3 hours is too much. we threw up skipped the ragu. but it made a great breakfast (the ragu) with lots of pecorino.

+ then in the morning it was the airport. went off without a hitch (thanks for the help, abdullahi). i got home and went to bed for the rest of the weekend.

wish i had a dog

i’m the sort of person who wants a snack, and opens up the search website and types “seeds”. two of my teachers really hated me. mrs arbuthnot and mrs ross. the one in between was nice, she gave me a book about birds. mrs brown, she was a good lad. mrs arbuthnot threw a shoe at me. it missed me and hit the girl behind me and her nose started bleeding. then there was the “bethlehem” incident. or, i suppose, The Incident of the Second Bethlehem. i got stuck next door for that one, and they said “see? you can do the work once you’re in trouble”. they said that in p6 as well. though in p6 it was because i got moved into the corner on a table by myself in another room and there was silence.

a little nod of deference to someone because they didn’t kill me. crossing the road during a traffic jam. it’s late and i’m sleepy. quite late, quite sleepy. the week gentle. quite gentle. things with important things are better than they’ve ever been. pointplace/littlebook work carries on merrily, it’s very powerful now. zoo came round tonight and we worked and went about the place. i’m so tired now. good luck to the eagles.

Merry February to all those who celebrate!

My new glasses came in, Ace & Tate Lilys. They have sunglass frames with metal legs that seem like they’ll be more resillient to my lifestyle (of falling asleep wearing glasses). You can put a regular ol’ clear glass prescription in there, so i got a pair with clear glass and a dark pair with prescription shades in.

Did a lot of work on my automerge-repo-solid-primitives library. There’s a new beta out with a better API and a lot more tests. It works really well now, I encourage any fans of building apps to try building an app with it. pnpm add automerge-repo-solid-primitives@next. It’s in beta right now until Automerge Repo 2 is out of alpha (any day now).

Work also continues on pointplace/littlebook, which now has strange and wonderful powers. An editor can be created inside the app, and sharing a file will also share the editor used to create the file. If I share a file with you, you don’t just get the file. You also get the program to open the file, and the program to make new files like it. And you also get the source code, so you can change how it makes files too.

Tickets came out for J On The Beach and Local-First Conf. I’ll see you there.

Very nice days and nights with birdie. We went to an IKEA in Grays on Saturday, which was, in many respects, a day. Sunday market, mixed grill at the shisha spot. birdie made us tasty crunchy dinners and sometimes we went to the market on Sunday, mixed grill at the shisha spot, or rambling around all over the town.

Well done to everyone for making it out of January, I didn’t know if all of us would make it this year. Days are growing longer, and nights are coming later, and the weather’s easing up, and everything is sitting right there in the light.

Valentine’s Day’s all planned. Breakfast at The Syrian Rabbit, lunch at Hugh’s Belfast Kitchen and then home for a movie and to feast on wild fauna and spaghetti.

Some silly things happened at my job, but that’s not really the sort of thing that goes on the chee.party website where we are now.

I’ll finish up now, have to put the cardboard on the outside steps for the vegetable man, and I have to put this yoghurt in the fridge. Just a little cup of tea and a glass of water and then we’ll give this next week a shake and see what it does.

Have another little think about biggly winks.