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Yesterday

  1. Walton-on-the-Naze

    7 photos

  2. Checked in at Walton-on-the-Naze Pier

    Walton on the Naze, Essex

  3. Checked in at Walton Beach

    Frinton and Walton, Essex

6 days ago

  1. 🖍️ Week 256 - Crayons

    Week 2^8 So, England failed to beat Argentina in their World Cup semi-final, owing to a tactical cock-up from our supposed super-tactician head coach.…

8 days ago

  1. Watched Over Your Dead Body

9 days ago

  1. Subscribed to Leaflet Lab Notes

    Behind the scenes as we build Leaflet, an open social publishing tool for blogs, newsletters, and more!

13 days ago

  1. Replied Thanks for writing this up, Olly. I always find it fascinating reading behind-the-scenes articles of web services: latency considerations,…
  2. ⛰️ Week 255 - Hill

    I was back at The Oval on Wednesday, in scorching sunshine, to watch Surrey crush Sussex in the evening T20 cricket. Arriving at the ground, sensibly…

14 days ago

  1. Checked in at Alexandra Palace

    Super Furry Animals, The Beta Band, and Badly Drawn Boy.

  2. After watching Succession and now The Sheep Detectives, I’m not sure whose accent is best: Nicholas Braun’s English or Matthew Macfadyen’s…
  3. Checked in at Welwyn Sports and Social Club

    Welwyn, Hertfordshire

  4. Watched The Sheep Detectives

11 Jul 2026

  1. I'm obsessed with Allan Peters' brand logo redesign videos, especially his use of paper cut-outs to show his process with typography and…

10 Jul 2026

  1. Although I’m closely following #atproto lately, intrigued to see two new open web launches: hypertexting.com and rss.chat

8 Jul 2026

  1. Checked in at The Oval

    London, Greater London

7 Jul 2026

  1. 5 albums

    Here are five albums that shaped me, inspired by Olly's post via Martin Schuhmann. To echo Olly's point, these aren't necessarily favourites, but were…

6 Jul 2026

  1. 🛌 Week 254 - Bed

    A few holidays among colleagues, so it was a nice, quiet week at work. I bought a pack of Tim Tams for a slice of nostalgia from my time in Australia/NZ. I…

  2. Watched Project Hail Mary

4 Jul 2026

  1. Checked in at John Clements Sports & Community Centre

    Codicote, Hertfordshire

  2. Finished There Is No Antimemetics Division

    by qntm

3 Jul 2026

  1. Started Thinking In Systems: A Primer

    by Donella H. Meadows

1 Jul 2026

  1. Started Naked

    by David Sedaris

  2. Checked in at The Barber's Room

    Welwyn, Hertfordshire

29 Jun 2026

  1. 🥵 Week 253 - Scorching

    The forecasts were sadly right: temperatures hit the mid-30s for several days in a row, resulting in poor sleep, irritability and general lethargy. Our homes…

28 Jun 2026

  1. Replied Great to see you again too. Best wishes for your job/house stress. I hope it all gets resolved swiftly.
  2. Checked in at Spokes

    Hertfordshire, SG4 8XD

25 Jun 2026

  1. New evening activity: waiting anxiously for the outside temperature to drop below indoors to then fling open all the windows and curtains…

23 Jun 2026

  1. Checked in at Smith's Bar & Grill

    London, Greater London

22 Jun 2026

  1. 🐦 Week 252 - Pigeon

    We paid for our very overgrown hedges to be cut back and shaped. It's not cheap, but the garden instantly looks smarter. It also means I can drive onto the…

18 Jun 2026

  1. Checked in at Metropolis London

    Vauxhall, Greater London

  2. Checked in at The Oval

    England v NZ day 2 of the Test

15 Jun 2026

  1. 🏓 Week 251 - Ping-pong

    The World Cup is here and I am loving the wall-to-wall football. The scheduling of the matches isn't ideal for our timezone, but I'm enjoying waking up to…

13 Jun 2026

  1. Checked in at The Goat Inn

    Codicote, Hertfordshire

10 Jun 2026

  1. Subscribed to Scraps!

    miscellaneous personal blog; ideas & experiments to try; prompts & provocations

  2. Subscribed to Knotbin

    Exploring AT Protocol, development, and community.

  3. Subscribed to We Can Just Do Things

    Dispatches from the Atmosphere 🌀: what I’m making and doing, what I’m learning, and my thoughts on this growing community and ecosystem of apps and tools. The technical bits, the community experiments, and this exciting golden age of creativity and sharing happening here.

  4. Subscribed to Wesley's notes
  5. Standard Reader is not only a really well-designed reader for atmosphere posts, but a killer way of discovering and following new…
  6. Subscribed to microcosm

    Updates, announcements, and other news from microcosm

  7. Subscribed to Eurosky's blog
  8. Subscribed to Nick's Blog
  9. Subscribed to Bailey's Retrospective

    Writings about anything. Sometimes hardware, sometimes web development, sometimes personal. Usually, everything is a retrospective on something. The week, a project, or something I learned.

  10. Subscribed to Daniel's Leaflets
  11. Subscribed to Paul's Leaflets

7 Jun 2026

  1. ☕️ Week 250 - Coffee

    It's been a less hectic week after our Disneyland holiday. The boys had an INSET day on Friday, so L drove them to her parents' for the weekend, while I stayed…

6 Jun 2026

  1. Checked in at The Red House

    Codicote, Hertfordshire

  2. Watched Send Help

5 Jun 2026

  1. Watched One Battle After Another

2 Jun 2026

  1. "Everything you touch in this car is either metal (aluminium), glass or leather." The interior of the Ferrari Luce looks stunning.…

1 Jun 2026

  1. Disneyland Paris

    5 photos