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Palaces Of The Crow by Ray Nayler
I really liked Ray Nayler’s The Mountain In The Sea . I also liked The Tusks Of Extinction . But reading those back-to-back gave me pause: At times it seems to relish in describing the worst that humanity is capable of. It starts to veer into misanthropy. I said: I hope that the next Ray Nayler…
The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon
This is an infuriating book. So much so that I didn’t finish it. Don’t get me wrong; I love the idea of The Pirate Queen . Telling the life story of Gráinne Ní Mháille is an excellent premise for some rip-roaring historical fiction. It’s even got an interesting structure alternating between three…
Ranking proposals for Interop 2027
The Firefox team are asking us to weigh in on proposals for Interop 2027—what features should browsers be concentrating on implementing or improving. Here are my top five : Web app installation via and navigator.install() . Prompts the user to install a progressive web app. Speculation Rules API…
The Tusks Of Extinction by Ray Nayler
Hot on the heels of reading and enjoying The Mountain In The Sea , I picked up Ray Nayler’s next work, this tightly constructed novella. Once again it deals with inter-species communication. This time it’s de-extincted mammoths. Once again, it’s set in the relatively near future. Many of the same…
The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler
Back in 2019 , I read the book Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith and said: I really enjoyed this evolutionary tale. It’s equal parts biology and philosophy. I will never look at cephalopods quite the same way again. Reading Ray Nayler’s…
Zero
The term “no-brainer” refers to a suggestion that is so compelling that it would be foolish to even consider not doing it. I came across a no-brainer recently, thanks to Matt Hobbs: Make all UK Government websites free to access without mobile data charges. When I was done slapping my forehead at…
Twenty five years of writing on adactio.com
On this day, twenty five years ago, I wrote my first journal entry on this website. Twenty five years! A quarter of a century! That’s a significant portion of the lifetime of the World Wide Web itself. Actually, this site did exist before September 30th, 2001 but it was very different. You can…
Think local
If you’re anything like me, you’re sick of hearing about so-called “AI”. We are not a fringe. The majority consensus amongst actual regular people is that this is being forced down our throats and stuffed into our eyes and ears. That’s why it pains me that I’m about to add more fecal matter onto…
The summer of ’26
It was the autumnal equinox a few days ago. For a moment our planet was balanced perfectly, with everyone experience twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days will get shorter and the nights will get longer until the winter solstice. Summer is…
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