V.H. Belvadi

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Writings on the interconnections between science, technology and society

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💌 Setting up e-mail with Emacs and mu4e on macOS
published 2 years ago
💌 Will the US elect a woman?
published 2 years ago
💌 Fascism renewed: an interview with Robert Paxton
published 2 years ago
💌 The disappearance of literary men
published 2 years ago
💌 On coffee and Satan
published 23 months ago
💌 What is your belief system?
published 23 months ago
💌 Using <abbr>AI</abbr>-generated images on the IndieWeb
published 23 months ago
💌 The meaning of ‘knowing’
published 23 months ago
💌 IndieWeb Carnival: On the importance of friction
published 23 months ago
💌 On the importance of friction
published 23 months ago
💌 Tracking broad data
published 23 months ago
💌 That picture
published 23 months ago
💌 Relics of the future
published 22 months ago
💌 The self-help industry
published 22 months ago
💌 Drama at WordPress
published 22 months ago
💌 Website v app
published 22 months ago
💌 Blogs did not break the web – It was evolution, not functional fixedness
published 22 months ago
💌 Webmentions add-on for Statamic
published 22 months ago
💌 One-a-month club
published 22 months ago
💌 An exercise in restraint – Notes on the 2025 redesign
published 22 months ago
💌 IndieWeb Carnival Jan ’25 round-up
published 22 months ago
💌 The Contrarians
published 22 months ago
💌 Moving from iA Writer to BBEdit
published 21 months ago
💌 Statamic Webmentions v2.0
published 21 months ago
💌 The website as a book
published 21 months ago
💌 A quick guide to self-hosting Actual Budget – Set up on Apache and migrate from YNAB
published 21 months ago
💌 Footnotes on the web
published 21 months ago
💌 Is that you? – On using LLMs for creative writing
published 20 months ago
💌 Setting up Zotero with WebDAV – The sweet smell of academic reference library freedom
published 20 months ago
💌 Plain text in academia
published 20 months ago
💌 Assassin’s Creed: Shadows – Stellar, and offers lessons for other games
published 20 months ago
💌 Authors petition to stop Meta stealing books
published 19 months ago
💌 reMarkable Paper Pro – The ideal e-ink notebook? Maybe. A panacea for notebook hoarding? Definitely.
published 19 months ago
💌 Strange pictures – The equivalent of a ‘reel’ in the world of books—Spoiler warning
published 19 months ago
💌 UK librarians being asked to remove books
published 19 months ago
💌 The UK should be alarmed about Reform – Fascist change does not jump on society, it creeps up on it
published 18 months ago
💌 Markdown is not for everything
published 18 months ago
💌 The White Lotus: Season 3 – Compelling, and only just misses the mark—Spoiler warning, text may be NSFW
published 18 months ago
💌 What’s the point of the rule of thirds?
published 18 months ago
💌 The good old days of online communities – Small web communities are dead
published 17 months ago
💌 Artificial Unintelligence – We are so inured to using AI that we believe we need it
published 17 months ago
💌 The Empusium – Incredibly vivid and utterly unforgettable
published 17 months ago
💌 Glimpses of Sawbridgeworth – Lessons from a photowalk
published 17 months ago
💌 Excerpts from my feed reader #1
published 17 months ago
💌 Excerpts from my feed reader #2
published 17 months ago
💌 Excerpts from my feed reader #3
published 16 months ago
💌 Threads, paints and hex codes – Meditating on the colours in my life
published 15 months ago
💌 Gandhi and James Bond
published 14 months ago
💌 Looking beyond collective blogging – Writing has always been a lonely endeavour and there is no changing that
published 14 months ago
💌 The world is increasingly noisier – The paradox of choice and the generational descriptors that defy us
published 14 months ago
💌 Excerpts from my feed reader #4
published 14 months ago
💌 Do you remember the books you read?
published 14 months ago
💌 Britain ignores the hard-right at its own peril – The people are doing their bit, the Labour government is not
published 14 months ago
💌 Excerpts from The Guardian interview with Nick Lowles
published 13 months ago
💌 Small web discovery
published 11 months ago
💌 A case for tolerating the uninteresting – Attention and popularity make for a chicken and egg situation
published 11 months ago
💌 Drehgriffel Nr. 1
published 11 months ago
💌 Leaving Moleskine for Leuchtturm1917
published 11 months ago
💌 An early modern book recommendation
published 11 months ago
💌 The Vegetarian – An impressionist tragedy in three acts
published 11 months ago
💌 Surely you’re joking, Mr Suleyman
published 11 months ago
💌 Homebrew Website Club: Writing Edition
published 11 months ago
💌 Illustrium Imagines
published 11 months ago
💌 Dinners at Cambridge
published 11 months ago
💌 IndieWeb Carnival Dec ’25
published 11 months ago
💌 AI & the IndieWeb – Quixotic ideas or pertinent boundaries?
published 11 months ago
💌 Alan Dye leaves Apple for Meta
published 11 months ago
💌 The 2026 design update
published 10 months ago
💌 Working with the end in sight – Re-thinking my approach to note-making
published 10 months ago
💌 Setting up iCloud sync for BBEdit preferences
published 10 months ago
💌 IndieWeb Carnival Dec ’25 round-up
published 10 months ago
💌 Betting on Bluesky – And how to set up your own PDS
published 10 months ago
💌 The Unix philosophy
published 10 months ago
💌 Bluesky feed for Statamic
published 9 months ago
💌 Collections and catalogues – The lasting power of museums
published 7 months ago
💌 The Last Kingdom – A near-perfect early middle age television series
published 7 months ago
💌 Death Stranding 2 – What happens when you put Kojima before everything else
published 7 months ago
💌 A kind of endless, rather still, music
published 7 months ago
💌 Short-sighted governance strikes science (again)
published 7 months ago
💌 Where spirits dare – Witnessing a ‘spiritualist medium’ in action as a sceptic
published 7 months ago
💌 At last, an Ofcom report worth smiling about
published 6 months ago
💌 Look to Hungary – Lessons and cautions from Peter Magyar’s win
published 6 months ago
💌 Don’t forget we’re here forever – Part memoir, part reportage, wholly uncritical
published 6 months ago
💌 Governments should enable and legislate technologies, not endorse them
published 6 months ago
💌 John Ternus as next Apple CEO
published 6 months ago
💌 Your name in Landsat
published 6 months ago
💌 Photographers who inspire me – We are what we consume
published 4 months ago
💌 Handwritten blog
published 4 months ago
💌 It is time to revive the humanities – Undoing costly misgivings and misplaced systemic priorities
published 3 months ago
💌 Celebrating midsummer – A photo essay
published 3 months ago
💌 RGB and my favourite type foundry
published 3 months ago
💌 Lahm on German football’s identity crisis
published 3 months ago
💌 The trouble with social media bans – To make a problem disappear, blindfold yourself
published 3 months ago
💌 Weeknotes
published 3 months ago
💌 IndieWeb Book Club August ’26
published 2 months ago
💌 Re-defining the IndieWeb – Focus on the philosophy, not on tools
published 2 months ago
💌 Moonwalking to the toilet
published 2 months ago
💌 Bad journalism should be a sackable offence
published 2 months ago
💌 Painting exchange: Entrance to the Wood
published 7 weeks ago
💌 The sea in a drought – A photo essay from Southend-on-sea
published 7 weeks ago
💌 Track exchange: ‘Satisfied mind’ & ‘Lost in yesterday’
published 6 weeks ago
💌 The Mulai – The tree comes, the tree comes, the tree comes
published 5 weeks ago
💌 Capture One
published 5 weeks ago
💌 Small things like these – A book as cosy as a blanket on a snowy winter eve
published 5 weeks ago
💌 Track exchange: ‘iPod Touch’ & ‘Bridge over the Stars’
published 5 weeks ago
💌 Anamnesis
published 13 days ago
💌 Webmentions, copyright and privacy
published 8 days ago
💌 Fujifilm 200
published 3 days ago
💌 Dogmatism kills art – On artistic pluralism and algorithmic ostracism
published 32 hours ago