Attending the Durham Miners' Gala
a northeast labour festival
Quinn's Blog
The blog of Quinn Maclay
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A perfect summer, long ago
returning to a memory
A simple day
a cure for an anxious mind
Big fish
a few thoughts on people and places
I fell down the stairs
(I'm okay)
Staying sane in a heatwave
It's hot
100 questions for webmaestros
Answers to questions on web mastery
The Allure of a Kitchen CRT TV
And my quest to corrupt the web with human content
public space freak out (Mixtape)
a mix
Databending Using Data Duplicator (dd) in Bash
Making glitch art from the command line
Some Things I've Been up To
Notes on nights out, Studio Ghibli, glitch art and book swapping
Not Another 'AI Is Bad' Post
A rant about a rant you'll never read
Zine Haul / Site Update
A trip to a zine festival
How We Forget
And how we reconstruct our lives
Dead Battery
Notes on Wendy Carlos, Han Kang, and a car that wouldn’t start
Re: Normal People Don’t Use the Internet
Maybe they never really did
Tiny Frozen Hands and Screen-Time Scares
Different tech, the same anxieties
Blogging Before Blogs
A look back at online diaries from the 90s
Why Is Classic Literature Rated So Poorly on Goodreads?
Are modern readers cooked?
The Gender Politics of Mosh Pits
Discussion of gender politics inside mosh pits.
Let’s Just Make Things
Just do it already.
Permacomputing Linkdump
A curated list of permacomputing resources.
“Cash Is King”
Musings on money.
Creating Glitch Art With Text and Hex Editors
Techniques for generating glitch art via text/hex manipulation.
Glitch Art Experiments
Explorations in digital glitch aesthetics.
Results Varied: Memories of Nu Metal
Personal take on the nu‑metal era.
Turning My Old Netbook Into a Writer Deck
More adventures with the Eee PC.
Eee! PC
Notes on a tiny netbook from the mid 2000s.
The Luxury of Analogue
Analogue tools are all the rage, but can you still afford them?
What I Grew Up With
The tech that shaped my childhood.
Returning to Sunnydale
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1.
Snow Days
When nature makes us stop and pay attention.
Mosh Pits Made Me Who I Am
Finding kinship and self-worth among chaos
rAw TiMe: What An Untouchable ’90s Goth Can Tell Us About Dealing with Web Trolls
Because people are as classy as they’ve ever been
That Time I Unintentionally Went to Wiesbaden
An unintended layover.
Can Your Website Fit on a Floppy Disk?
Some thoughts on lean web design and a pair of challenges
What I Learned From a Man Painting on a Treadmill
Thoughts on "Let's Paint TV."
The Real Thing
Reflection on Perfect Blue and identity.
Searching for Meaning in a 1998 Dream Emulator
An attempted analysis of “Dream Emulator” (1998).
I Was a Teenage Web Master
Towards a more personal web
Lynx: Why I Still Use This “Ancient” Web Browser
Text-based web browsing.
My One Big Text File
On using one single .txt file for all my notes and writing
Blogs as Modern Commonplace Books
The compounding effects of keeping an online journal
“I Don’t Know What I Think Until I Write It Down”
How the act of writing clarifies thinking.
Retreating Into Futures Past
Am I Luddite?
Exploring the Gopher Net
Using the vintage Gopher protocol in 2023.
The Truth About ‘Writing What You Know’
Debunking myths around the “write what you know” advice.
Marginalia and Why You Should “Ruin” Your Books
Annotating as a reading practice.