Notes and ramblings from Harley Denham
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A short, late entry for February. My little brother turned 18 this past week. I was 11 when he was born and I turn 30 this year. Where the hell did that go? The first half of the month was the launch and aftermath of the big day job project. I'm proud to say I launched without a single issue... well, I thought so for two weeks, then I learned today that a problem I had completely anticipated had…
It was our tenth anniversary this month. Sunday the 25th, specifically. We're actually not sure what day it was that we got together, which we both think is very funny. We know it was late in the month, so a few years ago we decided to split the difference and officially call it the 25th. We do still just sort of celebrate 'anniversary month', which is equally fun. Anyway, I feel old now. Ten…
It's December. Where did that go? I've badly neglected my writing, both personal and on this site over the past two months, mostly because all of October was spent recovering from illness and trudging through paperwork, packing, moving and figuring out how to merge two households for the first time. After a few hiccups on the exchange/complete process, we got the keys to our apartment and first…
It's a short one for September. It's also a day late and a dollar short, but today is one of the first days I've felt almost completely normal for a while. I bought an apartment this month. It's mine and my partner's first home! I fell brutally ill with an inner ear infection that nearly killed me. Incredible stuff. My pet theory is the universe was like 'Buying a house before they're thirty? We…
I did some more consultant work this month: I gave a small team a very nice website they can pick up and run with by themselves, which they desperately needed. At the day job, there's a big trade show coming up, so there's been tonnes of design and photography work to get shot/built/designed/printed in the creative half of my job. I also need to prepare to migrate a massive backbone system to the…
I've upgraded this site's tooling a little for publishing microwiki-style documentation of my software projects. I take documentation seriously and for some projects, like Meander , it's super unmanagable; I actually maintain three separate sets of Meander docs, and this site will technically be a fourth. One is the GitHub readme, one is a Fountain document that will ship with the next version —…
Another month goes by and quite frankly this whole time business is really starting to annoy me. I was going to publish a rant about the Online Safety Act, which came into force in the U.K. this month, but I ran out of time to complete it with the correct level of research. Long story short, it's an absolute shitshow. You'll get to see it soon, hopefully. In better news, I discovered the game…
My Framework 12 is here! Overall I'm pretty pleased with it, it's my new best friend for travelling and working away from my desk. I've needed a laptop really, really badly for a long time now and been stuck with an iPad, which has somehow become more useless as time goes on and everyone developing for it realises it's a dead-end platform. I posted a quick review of it on fedi, which I'll…
It's July already? Yeurgh. There's not much to report this month. I've been trying not to expire in the heat. It's been over 30°C here in the UK and I live and work in a house that was built for -5° winters and 15° summers fifty years ago. I posted a new artwork this week; I recently saw this big red-brick hotel with all this amazing ivy in the sunset, but I didn't have my camera on me, so I…
I just published a bit of an update, finally getting my website into a state I like to start building on top of. This version of my website notably adds: visual — a proper gallery of artwork, photography and other such projects. garden — a digital garden and the starting point for publishing my notes and essays. microfeed — yeah, this one! Some digital garden notes worth highlighting: Uses — my…
A round-up for the end of the month of May, with all the most interesting things I read. The Era of the Business Idiot , another in a long line of Ed Zitron pieces reporting on the actual state generative AI rather than the puffery of its CEOs. Frank Kunert's brilliant miniatures , via Colossal. Urban Bees! Andrea Chu's award-winning article on the problematic work of Hanya Yanagihara , via…
