Fascinating review of John Robb's new book "The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth" https://mickmercer.substack.com/p/john-robb-the-art-of-darkness-the . A pull-quote (from the review): "I’m looking forward to seeing a Goth book one day by a twenty-something that ignores the 80’s completely, telling us what inspired them to get involved during the noughties or tens, and why the current music means everything, as it should"

New blog post: Imaging Optical Media, Part 3: Figuring out disc contents https://jmtd.net/log/imaging_discs/3/ #archiving #computing

@foosel @idan I might have needed this today too. Thanks

This episode of Unclassified (world of drone) on bbc radio 3 is excellent https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001k1gg?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

A habit I got into as a sysadmin: of living a slightly nomadic life in terms of computing environment: I think has had some long-term negative effects on my general productivity

@lproven @neil hah! Coordinating it across reg articles would be some work

@lproven @neil I didn’t get the office 365-$I joke, ‘tis all

I want a 12” variant of this with Linux on it, yesterday. https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/110060790439788478

@neil @lproven I eventually did and sheepishly deleted my toot ;)

@nixternal you need a better reason than “YouTube told me to” :)
I’m using neovim but I hardly use the new stuff. Killer feature for me is/was subprocess stuff

I need to write a blog post about climate change. Perhaps tomorrow. Long overdue

New blog post: Qi charger stand https://jmtd.net/log/Qi_charger_stand/ #3dprinting #art

I saw Plaid last night. It was a trip!

@jbigham meanwhile, the original design intent of HTML is sitting in the corner, dagger-eyes

Things that inspire me 2/n

BBC radio programme The Life Scientific, presented by Jim Al-Khalili https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001k0jm

This episode, with Stuart Ritchie about open science, is especially good

stuff that inspires me (1/n)

BBC radio 4 programme The spark (presented by Helen Lewis). “Leading thinkers posit solutions to the structural problems of our age”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001k0ky

@silwol @CCTG yeah i didn’t wear my mask much even though I brought it, wish I had though. Didn’t get infected but just want to renormalise wearing them

@sil @scrwd an emeritus prof I work with does genealogy as a hobby but also used it in teaching CS because it’s a good example of something where every seemingly clear rule has many exceptions in practice

My “The Horror Show!” Exhibit book fits well on this shelf