#OnThisDay

Abeedeen’s shiprow is getting a makeover. Found quite a few new food places, and a coloured umbrella installation.

I fear I may be the sort of chap who - rather than dance at a Nigerian party - casts his mind to Zadie Smith’s essay -Joy. Is all this dancing (unfettered) joy, a trick of the mind to distract from the reality of life, or simply a pleasurable activity?

Old Haunts

Penultimate leg of three hectic weeks… Plus side, i might wake up to this:

Finished reading: How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds seven years ago today 📚. For some reason i thought a picture of the thinking person’s checklist qould be great.

Today I learned of Poortugaal, the Portugal of the North-ish

10 years ago today I was at the Hillsong London Conference. A lot has changed since then, both personally and otherwise.

Long non-EU passport lines at Schipol… Brexit dividends! Faces blurred by Gemini of course…

Currently reading: Work in Progress Confessions of a Busboy, Dishwasher, Caddy, Usher, Factory Worker, Bank Teller, Corporate Tool, and Priest by James Martin 📚

Finished reading: In Pursuit by Osaretin Oswald Guobadia, Chukuka Chukuma 📚 Moral of the story - building a business in Nigeria has, and remains, a Sisyphean task of sorts. It helps if you can capture the State of course…

Today, I learned about perpetual stews - a fascinating metaphor for the web (and link rot) "Perpetual stews work by adding ingredients, eating the stew, and then adding more ingredients to replenish, and then repeating th... https://social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/20/today-i-learned-about-perpetual.html

In which we go walkies in the Birmingham city centre: rustgeek.me

Siderite on the broken world of technical recruiting: "And finally, when the improbable happened and both employee and company are happy with the arrangement and it all works fine, you get the AI meddling again. Because you ... https://social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/18/siderite-on-the-broken-world.html

Passed by The Church of St Martin in the Bullring

Continuing to plumb the depths of my old music collection… #Navidrome

Dumpster diving in my old USB Hard drives; a massive total of 1GB.. Sadly, there are no bitcoin recovery keys to find here!

Lunchtime walk by the lakeside

On the cessation of Longwave radio in the UK.

JulyReply-ing: rustgeek.me/tag/julyr…

Today in SWR shenanigans: Delayed due to trespassers

A different kind of “Why I write” post. For practice, and as a public notebook

Currently reading: In Pursuit by Osaretin Oswald Guobadia, Chukuka Chukuma 📚

150 parking slots for school drop offs gone in 15mins… Thats a new record..

When authors find their books in fhe wild. A moving piece from Elif Shafak

A fitting final word from Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries by Kate Mosse 📚: "This, then, is it. The truth of a life, the quality of it, the value of it. Out of all these individual lives – some dazzling and brilliant, b... https://social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/03/a-fitting-final-word-from.html

Today in SWR train shenanigans: Cancelled due to a tree blocking the railway…

JUnited is a wrap, for this year at least

Ethan Mollick on the continued (exponential) capability gains in AI: "What actually mattered was not the profession of the user, but their expertise. The more domain experience someone had, the more successful they were in... https://social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/01/ethan-mollick-on-the-continued.html

Prof Al-Kalili’s Youtube series, Unbaffled is well worth a listen. More incoming.