Shorter posts, links, or thoughts. No schedule, not heavily considered.
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WordPress Social
Typical. I’m in the midst of vibe coding my own little app that is very similar, except it posts to a specific category in WordPress (this one you are reading right now), essentially expanding my Quick Notes shortcut. Not sure if this new WordPress thing is quite the same but I’ll check it out.
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Who knows that you blog?
I love when this kind of thing happens, blogs that I follow (thank you RSS) indulge in a little post-and-reply on a meta kinda blogging question. So David asked the question, and Alex replied , as did Kevin. And it’s a good question, my answer to which has varied over time. In the early days…
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Dentist time
I already have an appointment for a checkup which is timely as a tiny part of a filling just fell out. No pain, thankfully. So will let them know next week when I’m there anyway. I’ll be taking Jack too, his second checkup, the first one was a battle but hopefully this one will go…
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New design is live
Turns out my offline sketching and CSS noodling, plus links for inspiration and ideas, got me closer to where I wanted this site to be than I realised. Been a while since I hacked at CSS and WordPress and yes, AI helped me out with a couple of issues but mostly as a second pair…
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The Blogger’s Manifesto
I’ve always been quietly impressed by those who can grasp an idea, hold it deeply, and communicate it clearly to others, building the passion they have for something into a drive and commitment to it that others want to mimic. Some of these things become zeitgeist, capturing a mood or a moment so well that…
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New stylin
I’ve been concentrating on the structure and focus of my site, but now looking at the style. Expect some more changes in the coming week. As I said recently I’m not doing this offline but then, I’m not really breaking anything, just tweaking as I go.
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Week 17
A steady week, sunshine makes all the difference to my mood and the variety of things we can do. 🤷♂️ Life 📚 Read 📰 Considered 📺 Watched In my queue, new seasons of For All Mankind, Criminal Record, & Shrinking (and soon, Silo!). 🎧 Listened 🫀 Health 👨💻 Tech 💻 Site Notes 🗓️ Next Week
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Tweak tweak
I have, in the past, taken a holistic view of designing my website. Coming up with ideas and trying them offline, playing with layout, colour schemes, and pondering how it would work for anyone who happened across my site. It wasn’t a smooth process but it allowed things to “sit”. It gave me pause before…
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What a day
Me and my boy for most of it. Trains, subways, transport museum, ice cream, football in the sun in the back garden, snuggles after dinner. And my beautiful wife out for a hen do looking absolutely stunning. Sometimes I need a pinch, how did I get so lucky?
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Squirrel simulator scrolling
Squirrel is a tiny app for the Mac which adds scrolling to the simulator —handy if you are ‘vibe coding’ apps for yourself. Squirrel on GitHub
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No more IMO
Back in the day, because I’m old and remember such things, when someone offered their view on something, they seemed aware that it was only THEIR views, and would often mark it as such by stating “in my opinion”, or simply IMO. And IMO this needs to make a comeback. So many comments and posts…
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WTF Substack
Apparently Andrew T@te is on substack. Happily using their platform to spread his toxic hate. Substack have been here before but apparently haven’t learned. I know it’s a great platform but I’m done. Will be unsubscribing and vetting any links/articles in the future. There is NO EXCUSE for supporting them as a platform.
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Still noodling here
A few tweaks to the home page of this site, with the Latest Post now given a little more prominence. Have a few more things I want to do, improve the footer, improve the header navigation, and look into how to tweak my RSS feed output a little. Nothing big, just things I’ve had in…
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From Napster to iPod to Music
I’ve had this post in draft since March 2021, no doubt triggered by an article about iPods or MP3s ‘back in the day’. As is the case with these things, I’ve recently stumbled across a few different posts which all harken back, and touch upon, some of my own thoughts that I never fully fleshed…
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Shush you birds
Another early rise for reasons I can’t ascertain. I have a good book, and once again the serenade of (bird) song and snore accompany me as the sun starts to paint its way into the sky.
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Birdsong and silence
Well not silence, never silence, Dave is snoring. Been awake since 4am. I’m blaming my son. Not because he woke me up —I mean he did because he was coughing so I got up to get him some water— but because he asked me a question earlier. We’d been showing him some photos of us…
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More RSS, fewer emails
Referencing this post by James post — Newsletters should have web feeds (via Bubbles) — my initial reaction on reading it was to disagree. I like having my newsletters in a separate place, I even have a unique email address I use to subscribe to them, so they land in a different inbox. Then I…
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Why I Still Like the Internet
The determination to move away from the addictive doom-scrolling of social media has given me pause, given me space to look around at how I use the internet and figure out where I get most value and where I WANT to get it from. TLDR; unsurprisingly, it’s connection to people. When social media first appeared…
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Ternus future
Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO, will continue as Exec Chairman. John Ternus steps into CEO role. What does it mean for us Apple fans? No idea. Not for a few years yet at least. Like all most big companies the current products are already in support, future products are on the line being…
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A very Monday Monday
I know, it gets a bad press, but I’ve felt very flat, lethargic, and distinctly lacking in motivation today. Plodded on but already looking forward to an early night. Tomorrow is, as always, a new day!