James
@jamesg.blog
Hello! I'm James (he/him/his) ✨ I'm a writer, art history student, and Taylor Swift fan.
What if the musical memories of songs last played months ago were not held in the muscles, but in the heart – the passion coming through with every E that follows C? The occasional B, played at just the right moment, adds depth. I love the moment of getting into a song: when the notes flow and […]
Evening
What if the musical memories of songs last played months ago were not held in the muscles, but in the heart – the passion coming through with every E that follows C? The occasional B, played at just the right moment, adds depth. I love the moment of getting into a song: when the notes flow and you’re enjoying the music – the moments when nothing seems to matter but the note you hear, and what note you are going to play next. [...]
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The voice of the romantic midnight harkens; its calm tones echo through the day with the help of words. Is midnight romantic?. [...]
Midnight
The voice of the romantic midnight harkens; its calm tones echo through the day with the help of words. Is midnight romantic?. [...]
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My words flow from the blank, full, blue sky that rests above – a sky in which the more I look, the more texture I see; there are ripples and layers and colours; the periphery of individual clouds emerge. The more I look, the more I see. [...]
Skies; distance
My words flow from the blank, full, blue sky that rests above – a sky in which the more I look, the more texture I see; there are ripples and layers and colours; the periphery of individual clouds emerge. The more I look, the more I see. [...]
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With the window open and the breeze flowing through, I hear the calls and songs of birds. A calling pigeon in particular stands out. [...]
Countryside; Blaugust
With the window open and the breeze flowing through, I hear the calls and songs of birds. A calling pigeon in particular stands out. [...]
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I watched the movie Valentines Day (2010) for the first time today, which stars, among others, Taylor Swift. The energy in this scene [1] fills me with joy:. [...]
Lattes
I watched the movie Valentines Day (2010) for the first time today, which stars, among others, Taylor Swift. The energy in this scene [1] fills me with joy:. [...]
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in change, newbeginnings – ofstories and; whatif.. [...]
new
in change, newbeginnings – ofstories and; whatif.. [...]
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The twelfth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:. [...]
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 12
The twelfth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:. [...]
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In Camera, one of the songs on her latest album, CharliXCX sings:. [...]
Blogs, websites, and identity
In Camera, one of the songs on her latest album, CharliXCX sings:. [...]
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I wrote this post on Thursday, July 23rd, and reviewed and slightly refined it today. I have left the post as a stream of consciousness – a snippet of my mind as it was on the morning I walked around and saw the world.. [...]
Streams
I wrote this post on Thursday, July 23rd, and reviewed and slightly refined it today. I have left the post as a stream of consciousness – a snippet of my mind as it was on the morning I walked around and saw the world.. [...]
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I wrote the following while standing on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, listening to music and watching the world.. [...]
The Royal Mile
I wrote the following while standing on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, listening to music and watching the world.. [...]
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The eleventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:. [...]
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 11
The eleventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:. [...]
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the direction of music; the music of direction.. [...]
Music
the direction of music; the music of direction.. [...]
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I close my eyes and listen to the church bells reverberate through the city — the air, the street, the park; the hearts.. [...]
Of Day
I close my eyes and listen to the church bells reverberate through the city — the air, the street, the park; the hearts.. [...]
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Earlier today, I wanted to link to a specific year of posts on my Coffee category page. Importantly, all of my posts in a category are listed on a single page. [...]
Adding anchor links to my category pages
Earlier today, I wanted to link to a specific year of posts on my Coffee category page. Importantly, all of my posts in a category are listed on a single page. [...]
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At Homebrew Website Club this week, Thomas mentioned the term “tag healing” during a discussion about tags. Someone (Tabitha?) said that “tag healing” sounded like a superpower, which inspired me to ask: if you could have a website-related super power, what would it be?. [...]
Website superpowers
At Homebrew Website Club this week, Thomas mentioned the term “tag healing” during a discussion about tags. Someone (Tabitha?) said that “tag healing” sounded like a superpower, which inspired me to ask: if you could have a website-related super power, what would it be?. [...]
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This evening I listened to Peter Gabriel’s New Blood, after seeing the album mentioned on Thomas’ blog. As I listened, I kept thinking “this is my favourite song so far!” There were so many tracks that I liked. [...]
Space
This evening I listened to Peter Gabriel’s New Blood, after seeing the album mentioned on Thomas’ blog. As I listened, I kept thinking “this is my favourite song so far!” There were so many tracks that I liked. [...]
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Ruben and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we both write our thoughts on the poem “Repeat that, repeat” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. We’re not trying to do an academic formal analysis, rather share our own thoughts.. [...]
‘Repeat that, repeat’ (Collaborative writing)
Ruben and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we both write our thoughts on the poem “Repeat that, repeat” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. We’re not trying to do an academic formal analysis, rather share our own thoughts.. [...]
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Outside one of my childhood bedrooms there was a tree, a single tree. I see the tree vividly in my mind, and remember tracking it as the seasons changed – watching out for the first blossom, followed by the maturity of the leaves, then again by their browning as summer became autumn and autumn […]
Reflection
Outside one of my childhood bedrooms there was a tree, a single tree. I see the tree vividly in my mind, and remember tracking it as the seasons changed – watching out for the first blossom, followed by the maturity of the leaves, then again by their browning as summer became autumn and autumn became winter. [...]
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A pink symmetry on the peaceful pond catches my eye. “It’s a lotus!” I have made lotuses with paper before, but cannot remember the last time I saw one (have I noticed one before in the way I did today?). [...]
Gardens
A pink symmetry on the peaceful pond catches my eye. “It’s a lotus!” I have made lotuses with paper before, but cannot remember the last time I saw one (have I noticed one before in the way I did today?). [...]
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The horizon is bathed in orange and a faint pink hue as the hills in the middle distance turn blue with the haze of the summer’s evening. Light white clouds are scattered across the sky. [...]
Music at sunset
The horizon is bathed in orange and a faint pink hue as the hills in the middle distance turn blue with the haze of the summer’s evening. Light white clouds are scattered across the sky. [...]
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The ninth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:. [...]
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 9
The ninth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:. [...]
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You look up from your bed of grass flowers, opening your eyes to see the layers of branches grown by the trees in the grove that surrounds you. The blue sky peeks through the gaps between the leaves. [...]
Forest
You look up from your bed of grass flowers, opening your eyes to see the layers of branches grown by the trees in the grove that surrounds you. The blue sky peeks through the gaps between the leaves. [...]
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Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, supports web feeds marked up with h-feed. h-feed allows you to create a web feed in HTML using microformats. [...]
Processing feed items without URLs in Artemis
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, supports web feeds marked up with h-feed. h-feed allows you to create a web feed in HTML using microformats. [...]
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The eighth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:. [...]
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 8
The eighth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:. [...]
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When I announced that I was open-sourcing a quiz maker earlier this week, I noted that there were several limitations to what I had built. Most importantly, my quiz maker was a Python script, which substantially limits how many people can use it.. [...]
Make your own web quizzes!
When I announced that I was open-sourcing a quiz maker earlier this week, I noted that there were several limitations to what I had built. Most importantly, my quiz maker was a Python script, which substantially limits how many people can use it.. [...]
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I am continuing to experiment with writing some fiction on this blog. Here is a story I wrote today.. [...]
Stars
I am continuing to experiment with writing some fiction on this blog. Here is a story I wrote today.. [...]
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Looking idly out the window of my favourite coffee shop, sipping on a cool iced latte that I needed after a long walk on a warm summer’s afternoon, a thought came to mind: Why am I so fascinated by the outside world when I just sat down inside? Even now, at my desk, I find my eyes occasionally […]
Inside; outside
Looking idly out the window of my favourite coffee shop, sipping on a cool iced latte that I needed after a long walk on a warm summer’s afternoon, a thought came to mind: Why am I so fascinated by the outside world when I just sat down inside? Even now, at my desk, I find my eyes occasionally looking out the window. I see a black cat walking slowly on the pavement, someone leaning into a friend’s car window to chat, and the vistas of greens – the dark greens of trees and the lighter greens of the fields and the grass.. [...]
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In my “Open sourcing a quiz maker” blog post, I frame my quiz maker as a step toward what could be something better: a script that you can use, but where I see a vision for something more robust and reliable.. [...]
Blog posts as starting points
In my “Open sourcing a quiz maker” blog post, I frame my quiz maker as a step toward what could be something better: a script that you can use, but where I see a vision for something more robust and reliable.. [...]
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When I designed my “Which HTML element are you?” quiz, I wrote all of the HTML and JavaScript required to make the quiz work by hand. It took a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun! I used that code as the template for my second quiz, the Blogger Archetype Quiz. [...]
Open sourcing a quiz maker
When I designed my “Which HTML element are you?” quiz, I wrote all of the HTML and JavaScript required to make the quiz work by hand. It took a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun! I used that code as the template for my second quiz, the Blogger Archetype Quiz. [...]
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