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Music on repeat in January 2023: jungle, drum & bass, techno, breakbeat, jazz, noise rock, gothic rock, progressive metal, shoegaze, glitch.

Bismuth Garden has moved!

Firefox has experimental support for masonry grid layout in CSS.

20+ hours of music I was obsessed with in 2022.

Music on repeat in December 2022.

Today I visited Temple of Boom at the NGV in Melbourne.

Music on repeat in November 2022.

I have eaten the traveller from an antique land

Music on repeat in October 2022.

Spanish practice, taking a stab at translating This Is Just To Say.

Spanish practice, talking about a fear of heights.

Starting a blog for practising Spanish.

Music on repeat in September 2022.

A round-up of funny user reviews of libraries in Melbourne.

An unofficial soundtrack for the William Gibson novel The Peripheral.

Mixtape made in 2021, during one of the long Melbourne lockdowns.

A round-up of social media posts from the past week.

Music on repeat in February 2022.

This is a followup to Ruby squares, which I wrote way back in the first year of 2020. I promised a new Ruby golf program that would animate text in the terminal, hoping to release it “soon” (lol). One last bug kept me from releasing it. Now, so much time has passed that I can’t remember what that bug was, or whether I’d fixed it. So I’m releasing the code as it is, for the sake of closure.

Music on repeat in January 2022.

My latest hobby is a kind of coding challenge, writing short Ruby programs with self-imposed constraints. The goal is not to write the shortest code possible, but to fit the code neatly into a rectangle. Achieving this requires some trickery.

The origin of the term old chestnut is thought to be a play, The Broken Sword (1816) by William Dimond.

A brief guide to using Unicode in the Racket REPL on macOS.

Links about technology and regenerative design.

Continuing the Oddments series. Here are the more interesting additions to the site this week:

This is an extreme example of centre embedding which I came up with many years ago. It’s a synopsis of the children’s rhyme, There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly.

Bits and bobs, odds and ends, this and that.

Some time ago, I was eager to resume learning Toki Pona, a conlang with around 120 words. I was particularly eager to return to my copy of the Toki Pona book, despite the wealth of learning material available online. That wasn’t an option, though – I left the book behind when I moved continent in 2017.

Welcome to Bismuth Garden. I’m Liam, and this website is a personal wiki and digital garden.

Keyboard shortcuts to make navigating the command line in Bash less tedious.