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june 2023
:: Tales from the Bitface (version 4.1)
Just after midnight last night I finished my novel, Casino Soul. The first draft, anyway, or maybe only the zeroth draft. There’s a lot to do to make it anywhere close to good.

But that can wait for later. For now I’m feeling a combination of elation ...
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april 2023
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (Books 2023, 6) 📚 :: Tales from the Bitface (version 4.1)
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (Books 2023, 6) 📚:
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april 2023
Interzone 294 Edited by Gareth Jelley (Books 2023, 5) 📚 :: Tales from the Bitface (version 4.1)
Interzone 294 Edited by Gareth Jelley (Books 2023, 5) 📚:
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march 2023
(400) https://twitter.com/devilgate/status/1639717476823957505/photo/1
The first band I ever saw live, back in (fuck!) 1980, was Stiff Little Fingers.

I’ve seen them a few times over the years. Tonight I’m at The Roundhouse to see them once again.
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march 2023
Sister Act, 1992 - ★★★ :: Tales from the Bitface (version 4.1)
Sister Act, 1992 - ★★★:
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march 2023
On the Basis of Sex, 2018 - ★★★ :: Tales from the Bitface (version 4.1)
On the Basis of Sex, 2018 - ★★★:
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march 2023
(400) https://twitter.com/devilgate/status/1630542997354864641/photo/1
Look at the new Interzone: it’s a paperback book! I like it.
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february 2023
Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro review: cut-price noise-cancelling earbuds | Headphones | The Guardian
Modern noise-cancelling Anker earbuds, similar to my existing ones (as of 2023), but with extra features.
earbuds  earphones  headphones  noiseCacelling 
february 2023
Sennheiser Momentum 4 review: tremendous noise-cancelling headphones | Headphones | The Guardian
headphones  earphones  sennheiser  noiseCancelling  wireless 
february 2023
:: Tales from the Bitface (version 4.1)
I’ve written here before about Nick Cave’s newsletter, The Red Hand files, and lately I’ve taken — slightly hyperbolically, perhaps — to saying that I think it might be his greatest creation. Today’s issue knocks it right out of the park.

He writes ...
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february 2023
About £1 a portion: Rukmini Iyer’s one-pan bread recipes | Bread | The Guardian
recipe  bread 
february 2023
About £1 a portion: one-pan chickpea curry recipes from Rukmini Iyer | Curry | The Guardian
recipe  curry  chickpeas 
february 2023
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, Translated by Michael Hulse (Books 2023, 4) 📚 - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, Translated by Michael Hulse (Books 2023, 4) 📚:
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february 2023
Suzanne on the Stage - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Suzanne on the Stage:
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february 2023
(400) https://twitter.com/devilgate/status/1627582915491115008/photo/1
I just crossed the 80,000 word mark on Casino Soul, the novel that I started as part of my creative writing masters in January 2021. Nearly finished (I keep thinking).
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february 2023
Manton Reece - Moving from Mastodon to a new instance or to Micro.blog
indieweb  microblog  mastodon  social 
february 2023
Yo-Yo Ma Answers Questions About the Cello
cello  yo-yo-ma  music 
february 2023
Penny-Farthings and Paranoia - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Penny-Farthings and Paranoia:
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february 2023
Gosford Park, 2001 - ★★★½ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Gosford Park, 2001 - ★★★½:
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february 2023
Comfort and Joy, 1984 - ★★★ (contains spoilers) - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Comfort and Joy, 1984 - ★★★ (contains spoilers):
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february 2023
Our Man Flint, 1966 - ★★½ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Our Man Flint, 1966 - ★★½:
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february 2023
Tár, 2022 - ★★★★ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
TÁR, 2022 - ★★★★:
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february 2023
(400) https://twitter.com/devilgate/status/1620451732961492992/photo/1
It’s the 31st of January, and daffodils are out.
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january 2023
Poems
Currently reading: Poems by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod 📚
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january 2023
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua (Books 2023, 3) 📚 - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua (Books 2023, 3) 📚:
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january 2023
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, 2016 - ★★★★½ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, 2016 - ★★★★½:
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january 2023
All Quiet on the Western Front, 2022 - ★★★ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
All Quiet on the Western Front, 2022 - ★★★:
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january 2023
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 2022 - ★★★ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 2022 - ★★★:
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january 2023
(400) https://twitter.com/devilgate/status/1614218166657220613/photo/1
The first snowdrops are out in London.
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january 2023
Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), 2021 - ★★★★ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Summer of Soul (or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), 2021 - ★★★★:
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january 2023
- Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Finished reading: Together We Will Go by J Michael Straczynski 📚
Books 2023, 1. Content warning: suicide.
The first book of the year. JMS of Babylon 5 fame tells the story of a group of people who, each for their own varied reason, want to end their ...
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january 2023
- Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Went for the first swim of the year this morning. And if the app for the pool is to be believed, I haven’t been since March last year (not counting holidays). That whole ‘work getting in the way of things’ I was talking about yesterday. Or being a ...
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january 2023
A Look Back at my 2022 - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
A Look Back at my 2022:
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january 2023
RRR, 2022 - ★★★½ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
RRR, 2022 - ★★★½:
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january 2023
Bring back personal blogging - The Verge
Of course, it never really went away.
bloggging  #blogthis  #blog-about 
january 2023
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Books 2022, 33) 📚 - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Books 2022, 33) 📚:
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december 2022
Knives Out, 2019 - ★★★★ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Knives Out, 2019 - ★★★★:
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december 2022
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★★ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★★:
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december 2022
The Perfume Burned His Eyes by Michael Imperioli (Books 2022, 32) 📚 - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
The Perfume Burned His Eyes by Michael Imperioli (Books 2022, 32) 📚:
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december 2022
Nothing Compares, 2022 - ★★★½ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Nothing Compares, 2022 - ★★★½:
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december 2022
The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 - ★★★★ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 - ★★★★:
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december 2022
Rocannon's World by Ursula Le Guin (Books 2022, 31) 📚 - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Rocannon's World by Ursula Le Guin (Books 2022, 31) 📚:
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december 2022
Wordiply | The Guardian
The Guardian has a new word game, Wordiply:
🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈
🌟 Length Score: 73%
🚀 Letter Score: 46
🔗 Play Wordiply:
🎬 Today’s starter: 🄸🄲🄴
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december 2022
Twenty Years Without Joe - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Twenty Years Without Joe:
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december 2022
Illuminations by Alan Moore (Books 2022, 30) 📚 - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Illuminations by Alan Moore (Books 2022, 30) 📚:
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december 2022
Falling for Christmas, 2022 - ★★½ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
Falling for Christmas, 2022 - ★★½:
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december 2022
- Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
I was listening to The Specials yesterday because of the sad death of Terry Hall, of course.
I was mildly distracted by this text early in that Guardian report:

The pioneering 2 Tone band rose thanks to the support of Joe Strummer,1 who invited them ...
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december 2022
(400) https://twitter.com/devilgate/status/1605256781072048139/photo/1
This is really weird. ‘Do the Dog’ by The Specials, but Apple Music brings up the lyrics of ‘The Last Day of Our Acquaintance’, by Sinead O’Connor.
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december 2022
Why you shouldn't use ENV variables for secret data
docker  secrets  environment  environmentVariables 
december 2022
(404) https://devilgate.org/2022/12/12/140741.html
...
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december 2022
‎‘The Silencers’ review by Martin McCallion • Letterboxd
The Silencers, 1966 - ★½:
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november 2022
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS
Guide to the Flexbox CSS thing
css  flexbox 
november 2022
The Silencers, 1966 - ★½ - Tales from the Bitface (version 4.0)
The Silencers, 1966 - ★½:
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november 2022
(500) https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/21/23471306/apple-books-ios-16-page-flip-animation-sucks
This is disappointing: Apple have removed the delightful page-turn animation from the Books app: Apple’s taken the joy out of its Books app with iOS 16 - The Verge.
Bring it back! Joy! Whimsy!
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november 2022
Adding a Dynamic Now Page in Jekyll
Make an auto-updating now page on a static site like Jekyll, Hugo, 11ty or Gatsby
hugo  now  nowPage  micro.blog 
november 2022
(400) https://twitter.com/devilgate/status/1594647536736034816/photo/1
November sky. Days like this are the real reason we have Christmas.
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november 2022
Marcus Sedgwick, celebrated children’s author, dies aged 54 | Marcus Sedgwick | The Guardian
Saddened to read of the death of Marcus Sedgwick. I don’t know much about him, but I read and enjoyed one of his books two years ago, and subscribed to his mailing list after that. He seemed like a decent guy.
So it goes, I guess.
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november 2022
Rishi Sunak preparing years of tax rises to plug £50bn fiscal black hole | Economic policy | The Guardian
Tax rises expected from the latest Tory PM. What I can't figure out is why they have to 'make up for a £50bn fiscal hole' caused by Truss, when she was only in for 5 minutes. Her disastrous mini-budget hadn't been enacted yet.
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november 2022
We are already midway through exploring the galaxy (probably)
Quite a fun piece about how humanity’s origin may be as part of a wave of Von Neumann machines from another civilisation.
vonNeumann  replicator  replication  spaceExploration 
october 2022
shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built on Playwright
tests  testing  automation  screenshots  documentation 
october 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/2022/10/29/next-songs-elon-musk-and-joe-strummer/
Next Songs, Elon Musk, and Joe Strummer:
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october 2022
Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance | Techdirt
Good piece on the possible effects of Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
twitter  musk  freeSpeech 
october 2022
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 28) | Tales From the Bitface
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 38):
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october 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/2022/10/11/lethal-white-by-robert-galbraith-books-2022-26/
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 26):
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october 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/2022/10/11/troubled-blood-by-robert-galbraith-books-2022-27/
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 27):
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october 2022
(400) https://twitter.com/devilgate/status/1577942135403413506/photo/1
Well, damn. As the only one in my immediate family never to have had it, I really thought I was going to get away with it.

Positive
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october 2022
Barry Lyndon, 1975 - ★★★½ | Tales From the Bitface
Barry Lyndon, 1975 - ★★★½:
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october 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/2022/09/24/career-of-evil-by-robert-galbraith-books-2022-25/
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 25):
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september 2022
God Save Your Mad Parade | Tales From the Bitface
God Save Your Mad Parade:
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september 2022
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 24) | Tales From the Bitface
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 24):
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september 2022
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 23) | Tales From the Bitface
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 23):
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september 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/letterboxd/mollys-game-2017-12/
Molly's Game, 2017 - ★★★½:
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september 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/2022/09/12/the-ink-black-heart-by-robert-galbraith-books-2022-22/
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 22):
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september 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/2022/09/08/the-title-of-the-smiths-third-album/
The Title of The Smiths' Third Album:
from:Hook  from twitter
september 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/2022/09/07/excession-by-iain-m-banks-books-2022-21/
Excession by Iain M Banks (Books 2022, 21):
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september 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/letterboxd/all-the-presidents-men-1976-12/
All the President's Men, 1976 - ★★★½:
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august 2022
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks (Books 2022, 19) | Tales From the Bitface
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks (Books 2022, 19):
from twitter
august 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/2022/08/13/interzone-issue-292293-edited-by-andy-cox-books-2022-17/
Interzone Issue 292/293 Edited by Andy Cox (Books 2022, 17):
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august 2022
(500) https://devilgate.org/blog/2022/08/13/the-situation-and-the-story-by-vivian-gornick-books-2022-18/
The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick (Books 2022, 18):
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august 2022
Dine like Da Vinci, unleash your inner diva – 101 ways the arts can slightly improve your life | Culture | The Guardian
guardian  lifeSkills  thingsToDo  art  arts 
august 2022
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