August 2026 IndieWeb Carnival: Purpose 🔗
I’m hosting the August 2026 IndieWeb Blog Carnival , and so excited to read your take on this month’s topic: Purpose Everyone is welcome to participat [...]
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Purpose 🔗
I never really ever thought too much about purpose during my career. I suppose I was more more goal oriented, and to the extent I thought about it at [...]
1000 Blog Posts 🔗
This is my 1,000th blog post! Seems quite a milestone, so today’s post (6 July 2026) will be dedicated to my writing journey. I blog under the domain [...]
Every event poster is an AI poster 🔗
I run a website for my local town called Discover Dursley. One of the platform sections is the local What’s On, and I’m always on the hunt for local e [...]
Summer solstice 2026: Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day 🔗
Today is Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day. It occurs twice a year on the longest and shortest day and is a chance for volunteers to reflect on the [...]
Working with colab 🔗
There’s a cool free google account feature that tends to go somewhat under the radar. It’s called Google Colab and allows you to author and execute Ju [...]
Digital Spring Cleaning 🔗
I set up a password manager around 2010, and it remains the single best digital life move I’ve made. Only one password to remember and every online ac [...]
A gem of a Gem 🔗
I’ve been using Gemini Pro for almost a year now. I pay google £14 a month and get a single seat on Business Workspace, 2Tb of storage and gemini pro. [...]
New tax year, new plan 🔗
Although I’ve been retired for several years, I don’t have a monthly income land in my current account automatically. I keep a cash buffer to cover fo [...]
Finding a builder 🔗
There’s major work to do at the back of the house and half the ground floor. Planning permission has been granted, technical drawings completed and bu [...]
Re: using AI to inflate your ego 🔗
Plenty has been written on how people use AI (or not), but I’ve seen very little on the attitudes and style adopted when expressing their position. Av [...]
Two things I did not know 🔗
I have a wordpress website and develop bespoke functionality for it on my local PC before uploading the final code as a plugin zip to production. I us [...]
One big plugin 🔗
Oh … that aged well. My last post talked about the workflow I used with WPcode to create a lot of bespoke functionality for the Discover Dursley websi [...]
A workflow for wordpress 🔗
One area that seems somewhat under reported in the AI world is the enormous ease and benefit it has brought to developing websites with wordpress. Mos [...]
Re: Webspace Invaders 🔗
Matthias is feeling the brunt of bots relentlessly hitting his personal website: I sat there staring at those logs for a while. The irony wasn’t lost [...]
Thinky Dailies puzzle 🔗
I like daily puzzles. For the last few years, my morning routine has consisted of doing wordle, quordle and waffle before anything else. They are not [...]
What happens when Capitalists no longer need human labour? 🔗
As of early 2026, most of the worldwide earnings from capitalism are being re-invested into AI development (as well as a healthy amount of borrowed de [...]
Browse People and Money 🔗
I have been holding a series of interviews with people about money … their attitude towards it, goals and sharing some of their financial journey. Of [...]
New ways to show old content 🔗
For the last six months or so, I’ve been experimenting with a new website on my root domain uncountable.uk to bring together this blog, my diary and m [...]
FTSE100 reaches 10,000 🔗
In early trading on 2 January 2026, the FTSE100 passed the 10,000 mark for the first time. Of course, the absolute value of an index has no meaning, a [...]