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2026 2

  1. Windows Surface is my Personal Linux Cloud
  2. fediverse participation

2025 4

  1. Regular Expressions and counting lengths
  2. Perl's decline was cultural
  3. Upcoming gigs
  4. Shibboleths

2022 4

  1. I have a blog
  2. quitting London to work remotely
  3. Moved house again
  4. hand-written site software

2020 10

  1. Son of a Baker
  2. live in git
  3. Make your own rPI KVM
  4. sounds like someone I'd like to work with
  5. Masked Man
  6. Write a CV every year
  7. emacs colours
  8. New home
  9. had a year off Twitter
  10. 2019 In roughly 20 paragraphs

2018 14

  1. Catastrophic Wardrobe Malfunction
  2. Fighting LinkedIn AI Hype With Ironic AI Hype
  3. Toot-up
  4. more of a keyboard man
  5. Design is how it works
  6. I just read a wikihow article on how to eat celery
  7. One weird trick I use to upgrade GoToSocial
  8. Even I get surprised by how often I dream about my Thinkpad x220. #dreamsaboutmyex
  9. Dates on a train
  10. Micro post 2018 01 03 20:26
  11. ![snoop dog](https://beatworm.co.uk/images/snoop2.jpg) I think she is smitten.
  12. ![snoop dog](https://beatworm.co.uk/images/snoop.jpg) introducingSnoop Dogg
  13. Bought some shoes
  14. Day one of no twitter feels very strange. This gives me some confidence that it is probably a useful exercise.

2017 40

  1. a script to grab my selfie tweets from a twitter archive
  2. ![](/images/patience.jpg) This was a great Xmas read
  3. silly selfie thing
  4. With all this focus on RSS generation for micro blog
  5. To think I used to
  6. best dog in the world
  7. Should you wear nice underpants when you feel ill
  8. When you have
  9. If I included an image
  10. Something is introducing an
  11. Shopkins movie
  12. Crash early
  13. Does anyone know if eating
  14. Experimenting with posting directly with
  15. Some thoughts on hylang
  16. Doggone
  17. rough script to publish formatted micro-blog entries
  18. quixotic
  19. Zombie earworms
  20. written about it before
  21. Transliteration
  22. I believe in Father Christmas
  23. I finished Twin Peaks
  24. And then McIlroy said to Knuth...
  25. quiet time alone
  26. jwz photoshoot
  27. jobcentre plus
  28. further experiments
  29. mobility
  30. ancient dog
  31. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
  32. Experimenting with notes
  33. Pier of the year 2017
  34. go micro
  35. Literary Overambition
  36. so have I
  37. Custom keymaps in GNOME 3 on Wayland
  38. Spring Cleaning
  39. mod_perl
  40. A great disturbance in the force...

2016 10

  1. Storage density
  2. Ants farm
  3. flatpack trucks
  4. The people's popular music
  5. The chemist's war
  6. Haircut #100
  7. crowdfund legal action:
  8. Wreck of HMS Tarpon found:
  9. Genomics prototype
  10. a long time already

2014 28

  1. Apple Vs GPL
  2. I (heart) ccl
  3. Lambdapi
  4. Golden Mean Calipers
  5. nomadkey
  6. NIL
  7. Alpha.app.net
  8. Kim Jong-Un's rusty green submarine
  9. leaving last.fm
  10. St. Vincent Interview
  11. short-links
  12. US Navy launches E-Reader
  13. Back once again
  14. How I found the lost secret camp of Lawrence Of Arabia
  15. Surprisingly good list
  16. Sodium Killers
  17. Simply Gum
  18. ANS
  19. Serapeum
  20. 30 Years On
  21. BUP
  22. Numbers Are Important
  23. "...a decent society..."
  24. DIY Mineral water
  25. my old gaff
  26. Dead 1920s slang
  27. 2013 ioccc winner - Largest Small System Emulator
  28. Elisp lexical closures are readable

2013 24

  1. Useless bullshit
  2. A year ago today
  3. JAR
  4. 19 years of Openstep
  5. Comic cover screensaver
  6. Sound Sculpture Deconstruction
  7. Toormina Video
  8. Heliotrope
  9. Necroplasty
  10. BUGGER
  11. IDW announces "The Strange Death Of Alex Raymond"
  12. Enron Email Dataset
  13. Self-cleaning eggs
  14. Yellowism
  15. HMS OMG
  16. Fretboard Heatmaps
  17. R. Crumb
  18. playlist generating python tool
  19. Cool Shell Prompts
  20. AppleLanguages
  21. the case for numbers
  22. Every HN Thread
  23. All mail clients suck
  24. Raspberry Pi Radio

2012 58

  1. Junk.fm
  2. itunes shuffle
  3. EVH remembers Beat It
  4. Hey! Bo Diddley
  5. Remove double 'Open With' Entries from OS X Finder menu
  6. Trek Movie rule
  7. Rat Avatar
  8. Wheel of Urine
  9. Original Sim
  10. Manga Attack Dalmatian
  11. 32 Metronomes:
  12. Vampire Squid from Hell
  13. paying for stuff
  14. Alan Moore Video Chat
  15. 99 Problems
  16. Screen Hijack
  17. 458 More from him later
  18. Omni
  19. Legitimate Tax Deductions
  20. Axe tweak
  21. Paying for stuff
  22. Richest Drummer
  23. Netbot for iOS
  24. Fake Holzer
  25. Martin Amis Invents Britpop
  26. Monolithic
  27. Marxist reviews of Mr Men books
  28. Proust Racket
  29. Chevalier d'Eon
  30. Look at all the pixels
  31. Hitchikers
  32. had a baby
  33. Bounce Mail
  34. All I want for Christmas
  35. Alternative Heroes
  36. Whales can calibrate their hearing levels
  37. README
  38. Compelling case for road pricing
  39. Elfm.el
  40. How to make XCode 4's UI work for you
  41. a copy
  42. Newborn
  43. PS12
  44. Presenting elfm.el
  45. raw concrete trenches of Stratford International
  46. The Return Of The Thin White Duke
  47. Hackers Documentary
  48. MagSafe 2
  49. Musical Differences
  50. Can birds fly into a headwind faster than their own maximum speed?
  51. The Bitch
  52. Creating retain cycles by misusing assertions
  53. Retro enigma
  54. L'Inconnue de la Seine
  55. Cauliflower Hindenburg
  56. 'Supergiant' crustacean found in deepest ocean
  57. Vox Populi
  58. Faster Fourier Transform

2011 43

  1. I knew Christopher Hitchens better than you
  2. I miss news.bbc.co.uk
  3. Nine brains
  4. Seasonal stuffing
  5. The cognitive benefits of chewing gum
  6. Ken Russell: RIP
  7. super-NEXTSTEP-fanboy
  8. Branding
  9. Things that Turbo Pascal 3 is smaller than
  10. pouts condescendingly from my home page
  11. Flesh is weak
  12. NeXTumentary
  13. Pout
  14. True story of the Amazon Door desk
  15. jwz user support story
  16. Behind the scenes pic of the day
  17. David Hepworth misses the point of Steve Jobs
  18. Griot
  19. Airport-style metal detectors deployed at railway stations:
  20. Stratford
  21. Emotifilter
  22. Netscape now
  23. surprisingly sensible
  24. Some thoughts on that resignation
  25. The Body on Somerton Beach
  26. Astronaut Suicides
  27. A big spread
  28. Hollywood: A love story
  29. Metal4eva
  30. Sarah Jane
  31. Multiplayer FPS in Emacs
  32. Dterm
  33. Practical extraction and reporting fish
  34. Libraries gave us power
  35. worse than the disease
  36. Peak IPv4
  37. fileXray
  38. Heroic Auteur
  39. Cat herding
  40. memory monitor
  41. nut roast
  42. Posthumous
  43. Don't Track Us

2010 46

  1. Alignments illustrated by "The Wire"
  2. Bristol father of two is Hollywood movie website entrepeneur
  3. Nut Roast
  4. Snow dog
  5. Blake Edwards R.I.P.
  6. 25 years ago
  7. Map of metal
  8. New Pornographers with Neko
  9. John Hicklenton R.I.P.
  10. Solar powered hornets
  11. Holidays over
  12. Quadrotor Ball Juggling
  13. Empire of pornographers
  14. Img 0266
  15. Screen shot 2010 12 05 at 15 59 29
  16. Flying fish (actually flying squid).
  17. Hipster Relativity
  18. porting his blog
  19. Of course they do
  20. broken link
  21. Manic data miner
  22. Today I helped create a meme
  23. Wasps punish fake fighters
  24. Building python extensions on Snow Leopard
  25. Salamanders are amazing creatures
  26. Pigeons outperform humans at Monty Hall
  27. about:Ringo
  28. Posting by email
  29. Male fish in Mexico sports sexy 'moustache'
  30. Circle of blog
  31. Is this thing still on ?
  32. Ultima V running on TI calculator
  33. Amazing
  34. Servicing DHCP clients with OS X
  35. Anyone want to buy a house in Bristol?
  36. Opera mobile 10 for maemo
  37. Narrowcasting
  38. Mosquito-shooting lasers
  39. A Brief
  40. Autonomous ocean robot
  41. Combined New Pornographers and St. Vincent News
  42. Child's play
  43. Pixel Qi
  44. IPL 2010 to broadcast live on YouTube
  45. Misa digital guitar
  46. Jellyfish Are the Dark Energy of the Oceans

2009 48

  1. GNEVE
  2. Octopus snatches coconut and runs
  3. Airport command line
  4. Secret Ada
  5. Font caching and system font protection in Leopard
  6. Marinetraffic.com
  7. Executed offenders
  8. Shark bite prompts surprise birth
  9. remember the name of the Debian package for the library manpages
  10. I'm a rapper with a baby
  11. Anatomy of Japanese Folk Monsters
  12. Barcelona
  13. Underground press revival starts here
  14. Vegetarian spiders
  15. Keep the home fires burning
  16. Life behind glass
  17. Beehaus
  18. Wild Fermentation
  19. Electric suicide ants
  20. Stupid phone tricks
  21. Honeybees sterilise their hives
  22. Jumbo Flying Squid Invade San Diego
  23. Cute Squid
  24. Fever Ray
  25. Mob honeybees
  26. Stingray migration
  27. Nano GigaPan
  28. Prehistoric bloodsucker in Thames
  29. More debian package disambiguation
  30. The cephalopods can hear you
  31. 14-year-old hit by 30
  32. New heavy metal
  33. NYC and Christmas revisited
  34. we were in the family way
  35. PatchMatch
  36. It's not just the bees we need worry for.
  37. Things that should exist #93
  38. Hello worldn
  39. A Very Brief History of Micro-Media
  40. New St Vincent album 'Actor' due on 4AD
  41. Yet another strange deep sea fish
  42. Amusing musical partnerships
  43. Events that clash
  44. Some things I learned on my recent trip to Canada
  45. Like a kid in a japanese sweet shop
  46. trip to North America
  47. such a fan
  48. Some New Year resolutions

2008 71

  1. Merry Christmas!
  2. And I'm back
  3. My dog is spoilt
  4. Valentine's weekend in Dublin
  5. Countdown to Christmas
  6. Free Carl
  7. Trolley dash
  8. mentioned earlier
  9. Ahoy !
  10. Autozone
  11. at Primavera
  12. Jimmy Carl Black R.I.P.
  13. Jesus Christ: In the name of the gun.
  14. Fascinating pop-culture archaeology
  15. BBC quiz - identify vintage hardware
  16. Top 10 UNIX commands
  17. Banjo used in brain surgery
  18. Mutiny I promise you
  19. Only in Japan
  20. Old photos
  21. Django + SQLite
  22. A.C. Newman title and release date
  23. long-time house favourites Spiritualized
  24. FontFeed
  25. ATP: Release the bats 2008
  26. Using categories on Objective C classes in a static library
  27. More tomorrow's parties
  28. Opus
  29. Mameo evolving
  30. perl script
  31. New A. C. Newman solo project ?
  32. Smartypants IDEs considered harmful
  33. Google toolbox for Mac
  34. Using photographs to enhance video of a static scene
  35. French exchange
  36. Step by step guide to catching crickets
  37. Stags and the country
  38. A better iPhone 3G?
  39. Iain Banks Q & A
  40. Sedtris!
  41. Huge Alan Moore interview
  42. Brother metal
  43. Note to self
  44. Collection of Quartz Composer samples
  45. Economist style guide.
  46. Primavera 2008
  47. Here's the source
  48. Get xterm title string from the UNIX shell
  49. iTunes automation
  50. Barcelona sights
  51. Spiritualized at the Trinity
  52. Such a beautiful horizon
  53. 1978 disco party
  54. Combining PDFs with Automator in OS X Leopard
  55. Recursive make considered harmful
  56. Silly audio cable trick
  57. Inventing the future
  58. Counter.qtz
  59. Almost literally surreal
  60. Here is the 7.1Kb .qtz file
  61. Tracing Unit Tests with the XCode 3 Debugger
  62. Space Origami
  63. Fun with awk
  64. Sticker shocker
  65. Make your own graph paper
  66. Old Xerox PARC photos
  67. Vinyl cover art attack
  68. X11 is really borked in OS X 'Leopard'
  69. Basic looping with Quartz Composer
  70. An introspective technique to list available methods in a perl object at runtime
  71. Simple accumulator in Quartz Composer