The nights are drawing in here. Tonights sunset is 8.16pm.
It’s getting noticeably darker, quicker, but the days are still just as full. There’s lot’s to do before we loose the year to the winter.
Hope you’ve all had a great week.
Back Again
This post is coming to you (back) from it’s new (old) host.
After 5 years I’ve moved back in with Automattic and wordpress.com. A three year hosting plan with them was the same price (at the steep discount the offered) as a 2 year plan with my old host. Plus, I get a whole bunch of paid Jetpack features thrown in that I was paying for on top of my hosting plan. I was also sick of some complicated issues I was having on the admin side of things i’ve been having for a while – so here we are.
Apologies are in order to folks reading via RSS, I know you all got a vomit of posts in your readers during the week – nothing ever goes completely to plan! I must share this – Automattic did my migration for me for free. They ran into issues with the move and since they are the experts they fixed them. They also fixed some very broken slow saving and editing posts issues I’ve had on the admin side for over a year, ever since my old host moved from LAMP to Nginx.
Moving a 14 year blog isn’t easy – which is why I’m super glad they did it for free and not me LOL. But the level of customer support I got from them was absolutely top notch. The fact they managed to fix all the admin crashes and slow saving is a miracle. Not a bad word to say about the experience at all. Right now I’m in mind to say that if people are self hosting, and have renewals coming up, actually have a look at the WordPress business level plan.
You get Github deployments, a staging site, realtime server monitoring, logs access, SFTP/SSH access, phpmyadmin sql access, edge caching and more. everything you need.
Running a website costs money. I don’t think people talk about this enough.
Anyways, I’m not going to shill Automattic any further as I’m still cross about their nickel and dimeing approach else where in their business. But I will say that these business practices were an influence on my decision on moving back to the motherships orbit and find some cost savings.
A Weeknotes Note
A note to people who read the newsletter:
Now I’m back on WordPress I seem to have some more settings in my newsletter admin screen(?) but maybe it’s just that I haven’t looked into it for a long time. Either way, I’m going to focus a little bit more on the email newsletter side of things.
I’m aware that email subscribers have been suffering though weird layouts and strange broken grey boxes for years… So I’m going to work these long term issues and I hope I will get resolved over the next few posts as I tweak things.
Folks reading via Apple mail should have already have seen an vast improvement (Thanks Tobias for the head up!).
I seem to now have the option to add a ‘read more’ link to emails. Whats going to happen is that notebook/rss club posts will stay as RSS only, other posts you might be interested in will be sent with short except with ‘read more’, and the podcast and newsletter will go out as full emails as normal.
How does this sound to you? You can now reply directly to me by email with your thoughts!
Permanently Moved
Shaping Thought
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Photo 365
The Ministry Of My Own Labour
- Going to be working 1 day a week on a cool education project for a bit – I think. Waiting to see contracts etc.
- Saw some buddies and hug out in their new office
- Drinks with Tobias Revell in town
- Worked on Sekert Project
- Wrote a whole bunch of world running notes.
- Some of which became this weeks pod
- Wrote a big long note to self about ‘the doc web’ and post social publishing
- Added 10 more slides to the master book planning projects
- Wrote some more about journalling games
Terminal Access
Over on his blog, Wayne continues to document his geophysical art practice PhD, which involves being buried alive. A recent post recounted experiments of being buried in his garden with a snorkel.
Second, believing (correctly) that I will never be able to predict the exact onset of an earthquake I myself did not cause, and that if I am to ever catch a wild quake, I’ll have to fish for it patiently from within the earth, I needed to work out a reliable breathing system to remain underground for longer, much longer, than the two minutes or so I had managed wearing no protection but pool googles and an N95 mask the first time Deb Chachra buried me entirely.
Talking Pattern Recognition
I was delighted to join the writer Eddie Rathke to talk about William Gibson’s 2003 novel, Pattern Recognition on Wolf Pod.
Eddie has been reading all of Gibsons work in order this year (Last year he did Cormac McCarthy on his newsletter) – having a new guest on for each trilogy to discuss the book, themes etc.
We had a really great conversation about the book reading like a ‘period piece’ from 2024, international techno-capital as cyberspace. Gibson’s post 9/11 realist turn and more!
We’ll be back together next month to talk about Spook Country.
Dipping the Stacks
The Long-Term Impact of Gamergate – by M L Clark
There’s something crushingly immature about the idea that all our broader political systems could have been brought low by such a tangled mess of petty resentments lurking in gaming communities, and given malevolent form through just a few online forums where most people post silly memes and watch cat videos.
Goals can drive strategy execution but only when they are aligned with strategic priorities, account for critical interdependencies across silos, and enable course corrections as circumstances change. If these conditions aren’t met, every employee could achieve their individual goals, but the organization as a whole could still fail to execute its strategy.
Are animals conscious? We’re finally realising that many species are | New Scientist
Science is at last confirming what many people have long suspected – that mammals, birds and perhaps some invertebrates have elements of consciousness
Sustainable Queer Farm in Guerneville Fighting Climate Change – Thrillist
“We created this impossible checklist of things we wanted, and we found this incredible spot in Guerneville that checked all the boxes,” explains Schwanz. The spot, a degraded piece of land once (over)used as a horse property and conveniently located in a queer town, presented a ripe opportunity to imprint their climate activism and share it with others.
Electric mopeds grow in Mexico City, but regulation lags – Rest of World
Many distributors hawk electric mopeds as electric bicycles, but users like Javier García, a clothing retailer, disagree. “As an [electric] bicycle, it’s hard [to ride],” he told Rest of World. “It’s heavy, difficult, and you can’t last a kilometer” pedaling on it.
Reading
I finished reading Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas. It’s a really good book, an exploration – or collecting together mythic elements we might use to constitute an English identity for the 21st Century.
Still reading Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner
Still reading Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan by Teri J. Silvio
Music
Beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves
You know what? This is album is fricking great. She played round here on Thursday launching the album so I could have gone to see her! Unfortunatly zoomers zoomed and got all the tickets – which is a same.
Beabadoobee is everywhere right now, bringing guitars to play during brat summer. Ever Seen is my fav song on the album. I love the organ/synth lines and the plucked steels all the way though.
Rick Ruben did a great interview with her going though the album track by track if this is your sort of thing:
Remember Kids:
The essence of my case is this: given the fast pace of modern life, most of us tend to react too quickly. We don’t, or can’t, take enough time to think about the increasingly complex timing challenges we face. Technology surrounds us, speeding us up. We feel its crush every day, both at work and at home. Yet the best time managers are comfortable pausing for as long as necessary before they act, even in the face of the most pressing decisions. Some seem to slow down time. For good decision-makers, time is more flexible than a metronome or atomic clock.
Wait by Frank Partnoy
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