The dot on the ceiling

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January Update

Thu 05 February 2026

At the start of January, a “snowpocalypse” happened in the Netherlands. As 30cm (~10in) of snow fell over two days, people, cars and trains stayed home. Most planes did too. The airport ran out of de-icing fluid.

It was rather pretty, though. It made me happy.

Snow in the village …

On Becoming Ghost-Literate

Mon 19 January 2026

An out-of-band entry to flush a backlog of topics that don’t fit the monthly updates:

  • Very valid heuristic from this post on Bluesky:

    If you can substitute “hungry ghost trapped in a jar” for “AI” in a sentence it’s probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take “I …

December Update

Sun 04 January 2026

The common thread for December was to put to work certain skills and ambitions that had been brewing for the last year.

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The first was the creation of this dashboard:

Dashboard screen shot 1.

Music radio channels.

Dashboard screen shot 2.

Ventilation and air quality overview.

What you see here is a cheap Android tablet displaying a Home …