blogging

V.H. Belvadi’s theme for the January 2025 IndieWeb Carnival, On the importance of friction, is an invitation for me to gather various threads that I have found in my reading in the last few weeks, and indeed to practise that friction in writing this post.1 As I slowed down over the New Year and spent more time on slow and deep reading, I saw that other bloggers were also developing more intentional reading practices. Jeremy Friesen customised his Mastodon and Emacs setup, ...

I’m thinking of starting an occasional blog series on (until I find a better name) ‘How an ex-programmer keeps introducing automation and programming into my non-programming job’. Yesterday I was compiling meeting and occupancy calendars for 2025 and instead of copying dates from an empty 2025 calendar and from the state government’s public holiday calendar, I dusted off my Python date and calendar library (which I had built for generating janky lists of recurring dates) and started exploring the icalendar package to generate my own ical files. ...