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Like cheese? Like mechanical keyboards? Well, say hello to the Mechanical Cheese Board.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/08/mechanical-cheese-board/

Jeebs—time is nebulous. 24 years ago today I immigrated here from South Africa (via the UK for a couple of years of pint drinking).

I think I'll celebrate that with a few pints tonight!

and this is why I can't have nice things...

Shipping costs more than the things I want to buy :(

/cc @simplebits

Sad to see Dribbble enter its enshittification era.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/a-top-designer-was-banned-from-dribbble-now-hes-building-his-own-competitor/

Tough day. Battling whatever this awful bug is that’s going around — and even harder, we had to say goodbye to our beloved 17-year-old cat, Zoe.

RIP, old girl.

My beloved Kitchenaid Mixer just died... Anyone know of local repairers? I took some of it apart to see if it was something I could handle. I couldn't handle. I think the gears might be stripped.

My 11 year old daughter just recommended I switch to Opera.

Hey USA, _you_ are actually the bad guys.

"It’s worth saying it out loud as an affirmation: making things is not about the destination, but about the journey. The journey is what you put into creation: the thought, the mistakes, the sweat, the time, the lived experiences, the refinement in technique. What you get back is knowledge. The output is an artifact of that knowledge. When you get that artifact without the journey, you make nothing, you learn nothing."

Can I get a "Hells Yeah"!

JSM articulates his thoughts on AI...

"As someone who has spent their entire career and most of their life participating and creating online, this sucks. It feels like someone just harvested lumber from a forest I helped grow, and now wants to sell me the furniture they made with it."

https://jasonsantamaria.com/blog/large-language-muddle

It saddens me when a web publication doesn't have an RSS feed. It's not hard. You just lazy.

After a couple of months poking at code and relearning things I hadn’t touched in years, I’ve just relaunched https://dontcom.com.

It’s now running on 11ty (which is a heckin’ great static site generator). There’s still a bunch left to do, but it’s live—go check it out and let me know what you think!

No promises on how often I’ll post, but I’ll do my best.

For the past 10 years I've been curating a covers playlist over on Spotify. I hecking love a good cover! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7kkrdeuFrJaeVcgC4AVIIM?si=bf19cec117d641ce

This particular cover has been doing the rounds on video sharing platforms: Erin Morton from CCM Musical Theatre performs an absolute banger cover of Radiohead's Creep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROJZntCBZCc

I, for one, have not been waiting _at all_ for this to happen.

https://forward.com/culture/music/716509/bob-dylan-streisand-duet-album-the-secret-of-life/

After 7 solid days of importing I've finally moved all my photos from Google Photos to a self hosted Immich instance (running on a just-capable Synology NAS).

I love Immich so much. It's always a delight to discover such excellent free, open source software. If you haven't used it then I can't recommend it enough. If you're going to migrate from Google Photos then I recommend the immich-go command line tool to for the job.

https://immich.app/
https://github.com/simulot/immich-go

Nope. The DJ followed it up with a banging Baby Shark remix 😭

Yeah Yeah Yeahs — 'Maps' at the primary school disco... Am I getting old, or are kids cooler these days?

Bob Dylan said it best:
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I'll follow your casket
On a pale afternoon
I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

This is incredible! Excited to hear more as the dig progresses. https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/03/03/ocean-waka-most-important-discovery-in-new-zealand-archaeology/