I find myself not needing a volume as large to enjoy music now after a break from head/earphones due to an outer ear infection. Maybe there is some merit to the good'ol "headphones causes hearing loss" thing.
Webmentions, check! I'm currently using webmention.io (yes, you heard right, external services) and have no systematic way of handling the thousands of webmentions that is bound to come with this site's inevitable rise in popularity…not! Maybe a webmention endpoint driven by a simple WSGI script that converts webmentions into emails is just what I need to integrate this into my existing commenting workflow.
The spider living outside my windows has gradually expanded its web to cover more than half of the openinings. Seeing the number of insects caught on the webs already though, I decided against disturbing it, for now. Gotta watch out for egg sacs though as the thought of potentially thousands of half-translucent eight-leggers crawing past the window sil into the room would be a bit too much for me to handle.
A sunny day today. I found out in unease that the four spider webs out of my windows each have its own owner by the coin-sized shadows they cast on my curtain. While yesterday I was still able to fantasize about spider simulation games where you need to tend to multiple webs and process the caught insects before they overstrain the web, now all I could think about is how to prevent them from over populating.
After sitting through an unconfortable amount of spider GIFs and pictures, I think the spiders living out of my window are Bridge Orb-weavers (Larinioides sclopetarius), a not-too-distant relative to the onein Charlotte's Web. I bet the story would have a rather different vibe if there were a swarm of spiders instead of just one.