Seeing out 2020 in style.
Note archive: December, 2020
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Thursday, December 31st, 2020
Myself and @wordridden have been watching all the Marvel movies (in timeline order) over the holidays and we’re almost done.
Tonight we will start watching Avengers: Infinity war at 9:48:54pm so that Thanos’s snap happens at midnight.
Books I read in 2020: https://adactio.com/journal/17724
Fiction by @DeuceOfGears, @GreatDismal, @QwertyKate, @UrsulaKLeGuin, @BrianAldiss, et al.
Non-fiction by @DellSystem, @AnnaWiener, @DavidDeutschOxf, @AdamRutherford, et al.
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @erikkroes
Yay! Glad you liked it, Erik!
Friday, December 25th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @kolearyUX
You and Bob Dylan both!
Replying to a tweet from @kolearyUX
My wife just said the same thing—“he was probably a conscript himself!”
Playing Arthur McBride (song) on bouzouki …for it being on Christmas morning:
Reading This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Thursday, December 24th, 2020
Playing Christmas Eve (reel) on mandolin with @WordRidden on fiddle:
Thursday, December 17th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @robinberjon
Sounds good. My email address is jeremy at adactio dot com.
Replying to a tweet from @hober
Yup. @EdenT has already resigned. I will be “advising” that the AMP project be killed with fire …and then resigning.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020

Fluffy sheep grazing on the hillside in the low winter sunlight.
🎶 One of these blurbs is not like the others, one of these blurbs doesn’t belong…🎶
https://blog.amp.dev/2020/12/14/amp-advisory-committee-2020-election-results/
Replying to a tweet from @ChrisFerdinandi
Well, when the link text is “vanilla JavaScript”, who else am I going to link to? 😉
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
I wrote about three different ways of programming with CSS:
Thursday, December 10th, 2020

Watching one of my favourite presenters—@CassieCodes talking about SVG animation!
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @ade_oshineye
But why would that change if the advertising were contextual instead of behavioural? The brokers wouldn’t change, just the algorithm that decides which ad to show.
Replying to a tweet from @ade_oshineye
I draw the exact opposite conclusion.
It would drive traffic to the sites with the best content—the more niche the content, the more suitable the advertising. Perfect for smaller publishers.
Replying to a tweet from @AdamRutherford
Best of all, the the tar tar pits are in Los Angeles, home to the baseball team the the angels angels.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @hellogeri
Wait till you hear about the sale they’re having at Pen Island!
Loading up on Arecibo swag from https://shop.areciboobservatory.org/
https://twitter.com/shannonmstirone/status/1334201442656108553
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @shannonmstirone
A part of me is waiting for Hadden to reveal a second dish. 😢
If you buy a copy of Going Offline from @ABookApart today, 10% will go to https://archive.org/donate/ and 10% will go to https://firstnations.org/covid-19-emergency-response-fund/
Replying to a tweet from @adactio
And when I say “quarter past six”, I mean “five past six.”
Doh!
Replying to a tweet from @adactio
…and when I say “the skies are clear”, I mean “partly cloudy”.
People of Brighton, the skies are clear and the International Space Station will pass overhead at quarter past six. Let’s wrap up warm, step outside, and look up at the crew of seven people currently in space.