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Context rules everything around me

I care about context. This is a place for me to mark my own: essays and notes, the books and films I’ve finished, and the tools I’ve built because I needed them.

Essays

  1. New Dad weight trainingWhen my daughter was born I had two 60-minute windows per week to train.
  2. How this site worksThis site is a custom static site generator built with Bun and TypeScript.

Notes

Out of 5
  1. A Most Wanted Man2I wanted to like this.
  2. Zombieland3This film was much funnier in 2009 than it is 17 years later (where does time go!?).
  3. 28 Years Later4My favourite of the franchise.
  4. The Departed5I love everything about this film.
  5. The Ides of March3A great first movie of 2026.
  6. Notting Hill4A classic rom-com that seemingly never gets old.
  7. Michael Clayton4Gilroy spared nothing.

All 9 pieces

On the go

  1. Pride and PrejudiceBookJane Austen
  2. The StingFilmGeorge Roy Hill

Lately finished

Out of 5
  1. Heat4½Michael Mann · 3 Nov 2026
  2. The Matrix5The Wachowskis · 1 Oct 2026
  3. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie1½Muriel Spark · 25 May 2026
  4. Animal Farm4½George Orwell · 21 May 2026

The catalogue of books and films

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