31 Oct 2024

Heavy Rotation October 2024

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Singles

  1. It Ain't Nuttin' (feat. MF Doom) - The Herbalizer
  2. Celestial Envoy - Om Unit
  3. Beat The Devils Tattoo - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Albums

  1. Break My <3 - Saaaz
  2. Operation Doomsday - MF Doom
  3. Entroducing - DJ Shadow

30 Oct 2024

Unimaginably precise

Unfortunately, Hopper writes, the Earth isn’t: its rotational speed “is affected by a variety of atmospheric and geologic factors, including the behavior of the planet’s inner layers; the reshaping of its crust, such as through the growth of mountains or bodies of magma; and the friction of the ocean’s tides against the seafloor.” As a result, each year, the planet spins a little more slowly—and this “risks opening a rift between the time as told by atoms and the time as told by astronomy.” Like my wife, the world’s timekeepers have been forced to adjust their clocks, adding thirty-seven leap seconds since 1972.

New Yorker wonders if steampunk can save us from the accelerating enshittification.

02 Oct 2024

Medieval Beer & Side Hustles

I am adamantly opposed to the conception of grind culture. I swear to god, if you 💯💯💯 me, I will consider it a hate crime, and will report you to my local self-governance group for a reparative harm process. This isn’t to say that I do not understand that work is often required of us all. I am, quite famously, a bitch with five jobs, after all. My point is more that glamorizing having a side hustle – or side hustles – and positing that said side hustles can lead you from financial precarity is dubious at best and problematic at worst.

...petitioning the royals repeatedly to pay back her husband’s loan, while still running a very successful wool exportation business. This didn’t work out for her, apparently, and she ended up throwing her hands up and instead asking that the crown just subtract the amount owed from her own taxes on her wool business

So, as you can see, royals have always been terrible people who are mostly just good at stealing money.

Some witty writing from Dr Eleanor Janega here.

01 Oct 2024

Heavy Rotation September 2024

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Singles

  1. What Goes Around - B Dolan
  2. Lost - Silencer
  3. Hayloft - Mother Mother

Albums

  1. Fall 2024 - Chillhop
  2. Special Herbs, Vols 3 & 4 - MF DOOM
  3. MM..FOOD - MF DOOM

29 Sep 2024

The Art of Taking It Slow

Rivendell’s bicycles are marketed as “UNracing” bikes. The frames are made of lugged, brazed steel. They have long wheelbases, luxurious chainstays, and sloping top tubes. “The rear triangle of his bikes, you could fly a plane through there,” Ashton Lambie, a record-breaking American track cyclist, said admiringly. “Nobody is doing that.” The bikes have playful names—Roadini, Atlantis, Hunqapillar, Susie W. Longbolts—and run roughly from two thousand to five thousand dollars, depending on the build. One of Rivendell’s signatures is the country bike: a rig equally suitable for paved roads and, as the company puts it, “the kinds of fire trails a Conestoga wagon could negotiate, but not the kind that would require a jackass.” Rivendell frames are generally outfitted with upright handlebars, leather saddles, manual shifters, platform pedals, and lush, chubby tires. They are designed to accommodate racks, baskets, fenders, and bags—whatever is useful for cross-country touring, local bike camping, and running errands. “Bikes are turning ugly,” Petersen recently wrote. “I personally have more respect, tons of respect, for somebody who rides around town, to work, for shopping, and for fun, than somebody who does front-flips on handrails with a fifty-foot dropoff on one side.” He is an advocate of pleasurable, unhurried riding—alone, or with family and friends—and is obsessive about comfort. Through the years, Rivendell bicycles have amassed a devoted following...

Recently, out at a bar with friends, I struck up a conversation with a man in his late thirties, a climate-impact investor named Peter, who was sitting alone at a sidewalk table, drinking a beer. Across from him was a Rivendell: an A. Homer Hilsen frame, with thick tires, side-pull brakes, saddlebags, and built-in lights, which ran on wheel-generated electricity. Peter said that he had wanted it to be an “apocalypse bike”: good for commuting, running errands, and bike camping, but also something he could “hop on after an earthquake and get anywhere, dependent on no one.”

Beautiful pieces of engineering, I want one.

We were greeted in the showroom by Will Keating, Rivendell’s general manager, a tall lapsed skateboarder in his mid-thirties. He was wearing Vans, Dickies, and a baseball cap embroidered with the Calling in Sick logo. Rivendell has twelve employees, a disproportionate number of whom are into vintage cameras; for a while, the shop had a darkroom. (“Skateboarders tend to follow a trajectory,” Keating told me. “They skate, then they get into photography, then they get into bicycles, and then they get into birding.”) On the wall, there were monochrome photos of Petersen’s employees and their friends: well-dressed, tattooed, and helmetless, they rolled through groves of oak and eucalyptus, and pedalled along sun-dappled ridges.

Probably because of the above.

About

Chancee is a designer who codes from London Town.

They have worked for the likes of Nike, Vodafone, Sky, Disney and Pearsons, won awards from Promax, BAFTAs, the Appys and The Drum. Spoken at The Waldorf and Southampton University - despite swearing like a sailor. Available for hire to draw pretty curves and code clever things.

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Oct 2024

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Unimaginably precise

Medieval Beer & Side Hustles

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Sep 2024

The Art of Taking It Slow

Heavy Rotation August 2024

Aug 2024

Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating their demolition of false columns

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Jul 2024

Follow The Crypto

Supreme Commander - Graphics Study

Jun 2024

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May 2024

Heavy Rotation May 2024

Selling 'Ghost In The Shell'

Vim - Inserting inline dates shortcut

xkcd - Machine

Apr 2024

Heavy Rotation April 2024

Blockhead Listening Party

Mar 2024

Heavy Rotation March 2024

X-Men 97 Is To Return

Crypto and ‘TradFi’: a friendship of convenience

The mysterious rise of the Chinese e-commerce giant behind Temu

Twitter Debt

Oumuamua, Our first interstellar visitor

Feb 2024

Heavy Rotation February 2024

JavaScript Bloat in 2024

Knots on Mars!

World’s least profitable blog

Jan 2024

Heavy Rotation January 2024

SP-404 Resources

How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity

Dec 2023

Heavy Rotation December 2023

The future is probably federated

Heavy Rotation November 2023

Plagiarism and You(Tube)

Nov 2023

Integrated Tech Solutions: Aesop Rock

The Design Museum: Skateboard

Oct 2023

Heavy Rotation October 2023

Vim syntax highlighting

DJ Shadow - Action Adventure

Twitter Bank

No, we didn't forget any zeros

"No more trains!"

Tupac Shakur murder: video released of suspect’s arrest for 1996 murder

Sep 2023

Heavy Rotation September 2023

"How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes"

Financial siren

Saving the sounds of Afghanistan

Rain Gardens

Aug 2023

Fuck around and find out award: Antoinette Sandbach

Heavy Rotation August 2023

The long drawn out implosion of NFTs

Kowloon Walled City

Jul 2023

Heavy Rotation July 2023

How palette and lighting works in The Settlers II

Hidari: The Stop-Motion Samurai Film

Jun 2023

Heavy Rotation June 2023

Babylon 5: The Road Home. Official Trailer

Sounds of Fashaga

May 2023

The secret Babylon 5 project is...an animated movie

Mar 2023

MF DOOM X TATSURO YAMASHITA

Jan 2023

Panic enters the Mastodon arena

Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

Gluten Free Weed Edibles

Nov 2022

UK Treasury joins chat app Discord and is met with torrent of abuse

my website is one binary

Twitter Impodes

Jul 2022

Eevee Beat Tape Discography

The mars company

Another recruit joins the Walkman ranks

Jun 2022

ProleteR: Curses from Past Times

Cocaine, class and me

May 2022

Financial Times's Gideon Rachman on the Ukraine Conflict

Why African fashion is having its moment

DJ Cable: Throw Back Thursdays

Apr 2022

Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia

Mar 2022

From Downtown

Edited latecomer's guide to crypto

Feb 2022

iPod Shennanigans

Jan 2022

Line goes up

Fuck NFTs

Web3 is going just great

Aesop Rock x Blockhead. Garbology

Dec 2021

Playdate Art: Scale

Website carbon

Humble ‘retro’ corded headphones are making an unexpected return, for both aesthetic and practical reasons

Moving files around for Crayon Munchers

Low Tech Magazine

How it all happened

Nov 2021

Space War

Oct 2021

HomeLab MkII

Human History Gets a Rewrite

Aug 2021

Autonomous Monastic State

Jul 2021

Back to the future, baby!

Jun 2021

Gemini and robust computing

Rust and LEDs

One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball

May 2021

Go slow and fix things

The Oral History of the Chelsea Hotel

Good developers know how, great ones know why

"Fuck the bread, the bread is over"

The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming

Apr 2021

It fell of a lorry

Inside a halfway house

Hacking an iPod

Indian drop calls

Why bumblebees love cats, or, why everything is a system.

Sony NW-A55L FTW

Mar 2021

Climate models and Fortran

Plain text protocols

150 Watt Office

High Potassium Posting

Feb 2021

Fuck google: Part II

Fuck google

City cycles

Eating the super-rich

Jan 2021

Four seasons

Dec 2020

"This time, damn it, we’re going to get to the surface"

Chrome is bad

Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry

Bad launch leads to real world relativistic math

Nov 2020

Moomins

#SovietTough

Abandon stream: Part 2

Oct 2020

Fuck Boris

American Viziers

Sep 2020

Subscriptions

Motherless Brooklyn

Riding rails

Basic Printing in OpenBSD

Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle

Technicolor portals

Aug 2020

Abandon stream

Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments

Jul 2020

The Walkman Forty Years on

Jun 2020

I Dream of Canteens

May 2020

OpenBSD Git server

Unreleased De La Soul Acapellas

Apr 2020

Animating SVGs: Strokes

You're designing for the web wrong: Part 1

A newspaper made from RSS feeds

Marvellous glass

Charlie Sloth Rap Show

Swift: Google's bet on differentiable programming

Mar 2020

OpenBSD Everything

Master & Dynamic: MW60

Where are the voyagers now

Lethal Bizzle is back!

Feb 2020

Low cost, low power NAS

A CSS history tour

Debugging a live saturn V

Two up, Two down in London Town

Jan 2020

Into the indie-verse