Simon Scarfe

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I help people make websites (Typescript, React, AWS serverless). Find myself fiddling with little side projects in my spare time. Pine endlessly for the pre-BigTech web.

Play guitar with little skill or discipline. Streak runner on injury-driven hiatus. #ncfc supporter. Pretentious film watcher. Spend too much time in the Tools For Thought space, but seem to always return to Roam Research and Zettelkasten.

Don’t necessarily follow based on any of the above.

Websitehttps://breakfastdinnertea.co.uk
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Simon ScarfeJan 15, 2025

I object to #TheTraitorsUncloaked describing itself as a “podcast”. Not because it’s visual. Podcasts are downloadable and linked to from RSS feeds.

BBC Sounds is walled garden, empire building bullshit.

#TheTraitors

Show threadSimon ScarfeDec 28, 2024
@LDJ oh yes, I think you’ll like it then. For me they’ve improved as the franchise has gone on, with each film leaning more into Jim being Jim. There’s an amazing fourth wall break in this one that makes it clear that they know what works.
Show threadSimon ScarfeDec 28, 2024
Other two contenders for this highly coveted title being The Substance and Love Lies Bleeding.
Simon ScarfeDec 28, 2024
Tonight’s movie was Dev Patel’s Monkey Man. Loved it, late contender for my favourite film this year.
Simon ScarfeDec 21, 2024
Braved Christmas holidays cinema to watch Sonic 3 with the little man. Jim Carrey at his best, well worth a watch.
Simon ScarfeDec 11, 2024
Oh shit, Thursday have new material. I really like it. Doesn't feel like your standard nostalgic reunion fare (not that I would be opposed to that) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhTwE_DiKJM
Thursday - White Bikes [Official Music Video]

YouTube
Show threadSimon ScarfeDec 9, 2024
Yes, this is entirely unfair and judgemental. Especially given that I only ever record audio. But that's obviously to hide the ways my eyes cross any time I play a half diminished chord.
Simon ScarfeDec 9, 2024
I consume a lot of jazz guitar forum material (r/jazzguitar, some cohort learning circles) - there seems to be an unwritten rule that when you film yourself playing jazz on the guitar it needs to look like you're either going through some level or euphoria not experienced before or taking a shit.
Simon ScarfeDec 3, 2024
Happy Minecraft Update day to those who celebrate it. Current status - wandering aimlessly looking for white trees.
Simon ScarfeDec 3, 2024

I get blocked ears in winter, so this year on a whim got a ear camera kit - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CQM5ZY21?th=1

It works, even if it is like watching a grimmer version of a birth canal video. Only downside is how gross I felt after - hard to look at myself in the mirror now.

Amazon.co.uk