Week 178: Wræc-hwīl

From the Old English Wordhord this week:

wræc-hwīl, f.n: period of misery or exile. (WRACK-HWEEL /ˈwræk-ˌhwiːl/)

This word feels appropriate to describe my life over the past months, banished from my own home by renovations.

I spent four nights at Electromagnetic Field, literally in a field, where I had an excellent time. In fact, when you don’t have your own home to go back to, a tent begins to feel a lot like home.

I saw a strange bird that I think was a wood pigeon × feral pigeon hybrid. It was scruffy looking, and larger than a feral pigeon. I didn’t manage to take a photo, unfortunately. Apparently such hybrids are rare, but do happen.

Our house is minimally habitable. There is a bathroom, and the two bedrooms are painted. The kitchen won’t be finished for a few weeks, so eating is a challenge, but we can sleep and wash and use the toilet. We’ll probably move back this week.

Links:

• eZ80 CPU for RC2014 and other backplanes.
• Atuin lets you synchronisation and search shell history.
• uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: is “a huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content”. I’ve used it to remove such content from my SearXNG results.
• Stardust will be a modern, dynamic colour palette for text editors and consoles.
• niri is an infinitely scrollable tiling Wayland compositor.
• Making my own private Strava.
• QasarBeach CMI IIz is apparently a very faithful Fairlight CMI emulator.
• The Musical Museum hosts a collection of mechanical music in Brentford.
• Tiny Toolkits.
• Auntie Shanty runs feminist, intersectional sea shantie sessions.