The RSS link is working as expected and should display like that when clicked. It's designed to be read by RSS reader software so it can auto-detect when new content gets posted on your site. It's not something that humans need to click on and read.

I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop

A great URL explainer from Julia Evans's saturday comics, drawn from her http zine! wizardzines.com/zines/http/

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

The Doobie Brothers put out "What a fool believes" and used up all the chords for the next 75 years.

Cure your onions for a couple of weeks until the necks are papery & dry, but aim to braid them while the long green tops are still flexible. If you let the tops get completely brittle, they will snap as you weave them. You need them dry, but still pliable, for a strong, lasting braid. #onions

what happens if u cut 4 wires out of an ethernet cable & then plug it into yr PC

Needed reliability also. Went with Screenpal which I use daily on Windows. Writes to a proprietary file during recording (before converting to mp4) which means even in the case of a rare crash it's recoverable up to point of failure. Mac version also.

ALSO TODAY: @mariabustillos.com and the great @ftrain.bsky.social talk about fixing the equally wretched AI problem flaminghydra.com/podcast-how-...

💚 Tá TG4 ar mhuin na muice 💚

“TG4 has secured a €5.4 million uplift. A 9% increase that brings the Irish-language broadcaster’s total state funding next year to €65.4 million. Director-General Deirdre Ní Choistín welcomed the decision.”

www.broadbandtvnews.com/2025/10/07/t...

I don't believe in nothin' no more

LOOK at the pumpkin field a'blooming just outside Swords today!

Useful email refresher e-mail.wtf

✍️ All Creatures Great and Small: a Yorkshire phenomenon

The stories of Yorkshire-based vet ‘James Herriot’ are renowned. A Thirsk museum offers a fascinating insight into his life and times

By Dr Pam Jarvis

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@drpam.bsky.social

Ballroom of Romance, Glenfarne, Co. Leitrim (ca. 1980s)

Photo: Bobbie Hanvey / Boston College

Not really fun, but useful and a pleasure to use: Notepad++

Free, open source, simple to use and easily configurable.

Sometimes uses version names to show support for various political issues, though there has been criticism of silence on Gaza.

notepad-plus-plus.org

Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem, an interview with Ted Chiang from earlier this year. “I don’t believe it’s meaningful to say that something is better art absent any context of how it was created. Art is all about context.” [lareviewofbooks.org]

Manchán 🕯️

Very saddened to hear of Manchán Magan's death from prostate cancer. He always struck me as having a deep connection with being Irish, a mythological Irish HighKing, displaced in time. A gentle man and a scholar. A noble man. RIP.

25 years ago today, Radiohead released Kid A. This morning, I’m celebrating by, um, listening to Kid A. [youtube.com]

London Underground, 1890