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Typeset in Söhne & Bradford & Triplicate.
Eco-friendly and devoid of generative AI.
Published from West Yorkshire, UK.

Essays

Journal on science, technology and society. For casual updates read my margin notes.

An exercise in restraint
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Blogs did not break the web
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Relics of the future
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Tracking broad data
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On the importance of friction
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What is your belief system?
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Emacs and mu4e e-mail on macOS
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Effort and return in technology
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A stroll through Bristol
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Outdoor smoking areas
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Assorted rituals
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Music as a creative environment
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Why I write
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When web accessibility felt restrictive
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We should use markdown more
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Zettelkasten redux
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New design
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Scraping the web for AI development is theft
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Digital relationships
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What makes a great camera?
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The table ranking system in football is flawed
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How to build a zettelkasten system
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Galileo’s letter to Duchess Christina
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Good and bad things on the internet
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Daylight saving time explained
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Review: Trek Dual Sport 2 hybrid bike
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How I organise and manage my e-mails
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To complain is human
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Barbie’s world should not be dreamland
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The perfect social network will not build itself
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Against the NOTA vote
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Why Silicon Valley Bank failed
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Superhero fatigue or poor screenwriting?
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On legality and morality
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Choosing a body typeface
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The White Lotus: Season 2
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The White Lotus
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Where did our dreams go?
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The Twitter files: lessons in wading through nonsense
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Mastodon: the future of the internet
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Traffic in Mumbai
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Why some of us like true crime
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Conscious eco-capitalism
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Lessons in familiarity
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Animal sports should be regulated or stopped
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Euro 2020—the fantastic way
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Mastering Focus on iOS 15
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Birthday resolutions
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Hunting down the real Aspasia
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The case against nihilism
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Leaving home
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Battling COVID-19
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Jeep Compass
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Random acts of kindness
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Star Trek: Picard
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Dispatch from Rhûn—a new newsletter
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Cloudscapes
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The future of our world—II
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A call for sanity
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The art of meditation
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The future of our world—I
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Incendies
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COVID-19 and the bright side of humanity's capacity for survival
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The trouble with FIRE
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Attention Management
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Star Trek: Discovery is an operatic nod to TOS and TNG
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U and non-U english in the 21st century
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It is time to bring back the wax seal
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The subtle art of not giving a book
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On the by-election in Karnataka in The Indian Express
Tame your tech
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The iPad-only experiment, redux
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Random approaches to better living
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Dispatch From Kozhikode
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On dynastic politics in India in The Indian Express
On the smoke monster and other elements of ‘Lost’
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Google should turn off AMP
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Karnataka crisis: This sham must stop in Deccan Herald
Apple Watch Series 4
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Lessons from building my first app ever
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Secrets of staying motivated
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The GitHub experience
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A guide to living in the present
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In random conversations with farmers
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Gladstone
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What happens when our virtual selves take us over
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Improving and expanding Dogme Teaching
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The layman’s perspective
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung is the need of the hour
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macOS for physicists
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The trouble with Google Search
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On entropy, randomness and shuffling a playlist
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The mathematics of a medical second opinion
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How the far right became popular
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A drive through China–Lanka
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Installing gnuplot on macOS
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A eulogy for my grandfather
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A new LaTeX class for lecture notes
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We must all sleep more
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P. Chidambaram at Mysore Literature Festival
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Quiet reflections on unplugging from society
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In praise of coursebooks
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What does it mean to be educated?
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Internet pollution
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The purpose of a photograph
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Neuschwanstein
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Information overload and an overly social web
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Making a case for the liberal arts
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Our universe: marble or wood?
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