I read (listened) to Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice recently and then went back to the BBC audio versions of a bunch of the George Smiley novels. It's fascinating Harkaway can write Smiley so well when the tone of his own novels (which I also like) are so different. read on scrawl
Carly Ayres writing about Danger Testing
From https://carly.substack.com/p/is-it-a-product-or-a-performance
This is interesting - seems good to place next to 'homecooked meal' apps - apps as cultural artifact...
As part of my general blog tidying-up I'm revisiting this website for rough writing I put together: https://scrawl.grantcuster.com
Screenshot of Scrawl
In some ways I think this is the precursor to the Tabletop series I've been doing. The design of it really did make me feel like it was OK to write quickly. I think maybe I want to start writing in it again, though I'd want it to sit nicely along with garden.
Thinking about the One Unbreakable Law video from Casey Muratori
Did a little reset of the https://constraint.systems page. Using gruvbox and Departure Mono. Switched off Hugo and redid it with React/Vite because I'm just much more used to it these days. I'd kind of like to do a similar revamp of this site and grantcuster.com... Spring cleaning.
Tabletop used with a tabletop
Crop and download images from your webcam.
I've been searching for a reason/excuse to try Clay (and by extension C), and I just realized making a custom Wayland desktop panel (like this Rust-based one) is plausible.