Caolan McMahon

Electric cargo bikes are such a game changer. On a whim, I stopped by the wholefood cash and carry today and picked up about 18kg of groceries: wheat grain, rye grain, rice, muesli, 12 tins of chopped tomatoes, tea bags. I honestly didn't notice them on the bike and had a nice ride through the park and quiet streets to get home.

Also! I forgot my wallet. Oh no! But because the cash and carry is a co-op staffed by humans with agency they were like: "no worries, here's the bill, just send us the money when you get home" (I did).

Compare that with driving a noisy car to the big supermarket and turning out empty pockets to the helpless cashier. Another world is possible, folks.

Remember the DOOM difficulty scale where each increment was represented by a face getting more and more bloody? I propose that as an alternative to semver.

I'm a little sad asm.js is no more - an optimised subset of vanilla JS was a cool idea. Though, I guess it makes sense to reduce attack surface when WebAssembly exists.

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html

#JavaScript

We watched 'Quicksilver' (1986) with Kevin Bacon as a failed stock broker turned bicycle messenger last night. It's such a bad film. So, so bad.

I kinda want to watch it again.

Interesting links from May 2026
https://caolan.uk/links/log/2026-05.cm

My ThinkPad X60: https://caolan.uk/notes/2026-03-13_my_thinkpad_x60/

Interesting links from April: https://caolan.uk/links/log/2026-04.cm

No wonder my laptop is sluggish today, according to Firefox: "Web sites are currently using 17,179,869,179 GB of disk space."

I want more individuals to own and operate their own website. https://caolan.uk/notes/2025-06-30_homestead_the_web.cm

Did everyone in the UK enjoy their summer?

I remembered my camera has a macro mode. #bloomscrolling