hello, world!

this week zippers came over and stayed a lil while, an exceptionally good time. i cooked a sort of lebanese sort of chili. it was nice and with lamb and green lentils. we went to work and ate it at the yellow sofa. we tried to go to an exhibition but we wandered around barbican instead and it was very nice. on the way home i got coughed and spluttered on by strangers. the next day i started to feel a little under the weather so went home early and worked from there.

it feels so nice to surprise somebody by taking work off their plate.

the convalescence continues, i’m still a little sicky now, haven’t been out much this weekend except meal deal shopping at the local ✨Meal Deal Merchant✨.

you may have noticed notice i’ve rewritten the code that runs my blog. sorry to alice if i’ve broken my rss feed again. i probably have. i’ve put a silly amount of work into making it that old posts are rendered using the old css and javascript, so they look the same and keep working. it’s great. especially how they still work when they’re in a list.

i’ve also written my own pagination function so that the past is previous to the future. it surprised me that it’s not the default for chronological content, i looked around to see if anyone else has ever thought much about it. i found a post from a decade ago by chris coyier.

he points out another cool detail:

The benefits of this is that creating new content doesn’t shift the entire pagination structure. Next week after five more articles are published, the “Older Posts” button just goes to “321” instead of “320”. That means that all incoming links and bookmarks are preserved, and search engines will find the same content at the same URLs forever.

so now my page does that, too. because that’s cool!

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it’s nice when you throw something together with stuff you have in the fridge and it just turns out to be so fancy. today some leftovers meant a greek yoghurt omelette with parsley, muchroom, smoked salmon and cream cheese.

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it’s fun to have fun.

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i’ve also made this new https://quietparty.net/ website. and i have started working on a littlebook-adjacent app. it’s lookin good. collaborative, docks, filetypes. all the same thing but from scratch with my solid lib. getting further faster this time.

okay i’m hungry now for dinner, so let’s have dinner. hope i’m well enough tomorrow to work

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was hoping to make a little music for this post because i want to show off my new button, but i am not feeling particularly musical today and keep making complete trash. instead i’ve included my least popular (c/o spotify) track off my most popular (and only!) release of last year.

what's up? hey! what's going on?

i hope you had a merry weekend.

• finished up a couple more songs, wrote a couple more
• continued to fail to make the electronics work
• shopped for backpacks, chose one
• started building out a new quiet party website
  • zimper says i need to start a newsletter, so i'm working on putting that together
  • and maybe a patreon and other things like that
  • and some more behind-the-scenes and making of information
• let's all put our music on our own websites for free as a podcast feed
  • so it can be streamed for free with any podcast app
  • weird that there is no common open protocol app-type for ebooks or music streaming apps
    • but podcasts will work
• went to see Z for a few days
  • had some tasty food
  • what a very nice time
  • went to a music for palestine event at cafe palestina
    • what a lovely time!
    • that man plays a mean fiddle
    • got home so late
• got home so late tonight too
• sorry it's just a big list this week
• might switch from eleventy back to wordpress for my blog, since i've learned a lot about writing wordpress block themes while building the new quiet party site. and i miss being able to post blog posts from my phone and upload media easily

you know what they say about a cup of tea: it'll wake ye up when yer tired, put ye ta bed at at night, cool you down when you're too hot and warm you up when you're coul.

i'm a little dehydrated. new years eve was quite, quite lovely. up there at the top if new years eves were to be ranked. watched the fireworx through a little window, they weren't expected but then it was midnight and the streets were hooting and yelling with fervour and there was the sky with its colourful sudden spiders exploding and crawling and receding into the black.

and there it was, a little spinning chair (MILLBERGET in murum beige), and smiles and happy new year and, though the zombies weren't playing, still therein lay the sentiment.

and the next day, a first day of the year walk. it turned out wetter than expected. the parks were all stormshut and we were dripping ice cold wet frozen squelchers for feet. "it'll all be worth it when we get to the restaurant" which was closed, by the way. it turned out that way, we found out when we were eye to eye with the door. it was a most wonderful day, though so wet and cold my bones have changed density and no muscle of me has been the same since.

yes. yes yes yes.

little piggies on the doornail tell me the month is full. i've been doing electronics projects at night. next up is a little preämp.

a grade ii listed zebra crossing. is the one at abbey road the only grade ii listed zebra crossing? i think so.

silly me one time, but then a lovely weekend of diaspora blood and tears, maybe more understanding of how it's for the other. and what wonderful shawarma, a slap-up meal.

there'll be new quiet party soon, i think. a few good songs are coming together. and hopefully i will write some more next weekend. there's singing on them. currently the singing is a little out of tune so i might fix that. but maybe i won't fix it because that way you know it was made by a person and not a computer. and wouldn't that be nice?

wouldn't it be nice

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ps i ran into some trouble there with gnu date. i use gnu date as part of the template for these weekly posts. it turns out that gnu date believes there is such a thing as week 0 of the year. i have been informed now by computer, that week 0 is an american fact. it's unsettling, though, to have eaten so far into my paycheck and only on week 0 of the year. i've now asked gnu date to give me a normal week number which it calls "%V". we must choose between sometimes having week 0s, and sometimes week 53s. neither option feels okay. maybe when these extra days happen they should be holidays that nobody has to think about. 32nd, 33rd and 34th December.