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\"🎶\" Came across this wonderful video from 1969 with Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross. The performances of the songs are superb, and there is such a lovely warmth between the two of them.

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Weeknotes #370 — I Don’t Know Why: andrewdoran.uk

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Weeknotes #369 — The Clapping Song: andrewdoran.uk

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Weeknotes #368 — What we all want: andrewdoran.uk

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🏎️ On the new Formula 1 regulations: andrewdoran.uk

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Weeknotes #367 — Kingsville, Texas: andrewdoran.uk

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\"📚\" Finished reading Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. A good collection of positive reflections on human nature, debunking many negative apocryphal stories about how people tend to behave in specific situations.

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Weeknotes #366 — Kitzbühel: andrewdoran.uk

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Weeknotes #365 — The Prophet’s Song: andrewdoran.uk

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Bringing a 27-year-old programming project back to life with Claude Code: andrewdoran.uk

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Weeknotes #364 — Big pile of umbrellas: andrewdoran.uk

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Having a proud dad moment. On Friday, our eldest son broke his college’s mile record, and later that day ran the 10th best time in school history in the 800m.

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Something big is happening; but it doesn’t add up: andrewdoran.uk

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Adding email links to the bottom of each blog post is paying off. Someone emailed me with information about a problem with my indoor cycling trainer. With permission, I’ve updated the post so that anyone searching for the same issue can benefit.

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@Nataliekayh It definitely feels clunkier than the earlier seasons.

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Weeknotes #363 — Aquaplaning: andrewdoran.uk

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\"📰\" I love that The Guardian has this as their main story on their homepage. There are so many newsletters that I would pay to subscribe to, if they weren’t hosted on Substack. The intent of the USA’s Section 230 was to allow them to refuse to host content like this. It’s a choice.

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\"🎙\" Pocket Casts’ AI-generated transcript of the Quiet Riot podcast thinks that Ryan just needs to shush.

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\"🎬\" Mark Kermode’s review of Melania (2026) is so good, and everything I expected it to be.

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Weeknotes #362 — Continental quilts: andrewdoran.uk

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\"🎬\" Just been to a preview of the new Jeff Buckley documentary, It’s Never Over (2025), followed by a Q&A with director Amy Berg. It’s a beautiful film and it was a wonderful evening. Berg asked who remembered being around when Buckley passed and called us old-timers. How has it been 30 years?

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📚 Indie Microblogging: andrewdoran.uk

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Weeknotes #361 — Willy Warmer: andrewdoran.uk

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Weeknotes #360 — Carefree: andrewdoran.uk

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@scarredforlife.bsky.social Thanks. I managed to get it to work with an incognito window and a different email address, checking out as a guest. Looking forward to reading volume one 😊

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@danniemcq.bsky.social

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@scarredforlife.bsky.social Hello! That discount code doesn’t seem to be valid?

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Buying something from the Decathlon website and reached the checkout stage. My inside voice reads this as completely sarcastic.

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Weeknotes #359 — New Year, same me: andrewdoran.uk

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@reecejones.bsky.social I read your book ‘Violent Borders’ a few years ago and it’s left a long echo in my brain. It’s so good. Good luck with the classes; based on that book alone, your students have the great fortune to have you teaching them.

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@stephenkb.bsky.social That’s amazing! Perfect 👌

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@stephenkb.bsky.social “Here’s a preview of what’s coming up”

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“Here’s that bit we showed you in the last preview”

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“Here’s what you just saw”

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Repeat until end

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@dannynic.bsky.social Congratulations! 👏

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@manton I’d wondered where this had got to. I paid for a copy and had an email in 2022 that said that an ePub and PDF would be sent out, but hadn’t seen anything after that. I’ve downloaded the ePub now and look forward to digging in. Thanks for the update 😊

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@owenaudax.bsky.social Crikey. Those temps look marginal. Hope you steer clear of any ice. Have fun!

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@Miraz It was absolutely shocking. Both in its size, and how someone could just leave it on a bend on a country road for other people to deal with. I’m presuming it was fly-tipped and didn’t just fall off of a vehicle.

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@jaitalking Now’s the time to fix that!

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@gregmoore Getting me ready for the final series of Stranger Things 😊

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@kimonostereo It just feels so refreshing to have the weight of the little admin task off my back. I’m onto the next thing too: I can’t get the iOS app to connect to my blog at all anymore. It doesn’t seem to find the XML-RPC or Micropub endpoints.

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@mattharwood Apologies Matt, I’ve only just seen this comment. I think that the push notifications on the micro.blog app were disabled. The Signal chats are really just specific to those groups. They say that they have set something up and I leap in. I do understand the cameras on isn’t for everyone, but I do think it should be fine for most people?

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@kimonostereo I finally solved this after years of having the same problem as you. It’s pretty convoluted, but it works.

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@manton So sorry for your loss, Manton.

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@thenoraheffect.bsky.social This song is a work of genius. Backing vocals as the lead and vice versa. Incredible.

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@owenaudax.bsky.social Best of luck. Hope you have a great ride.

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@mroutley Thanks so much. It was quite the day out.

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@Miraz Thank you 😊

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@andrewdoran.uk Great book @maryannefranks.bsky.social. I’ve since watched some of the clips of your appearances at Committee hearings. It must take a lot to keep composed while you are talked over by people who aren’t really interested in the points you’re making.

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@naomialderman.bsky.social I sometimes go back and read my weeknotes from those days and am usually surprised by something I’d forgotten. Particularly how I felt about how things were unfolding.

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andrewdoran.uk/blog/2020/03…

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andrewdoran.uk/blog/2020/03…

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@JohnPhilpin That’s a good shout.

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@Dunk That’s fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

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