Moving ecosystems 🔗
My thoughts and processes on moving away from USA-based services. [...]
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On Loud Ambition 🔗
Or how the USA behaves in tech as in life. [...]
Why I moved my website to Movable Type 🔗
One part JavaScript fatigue and two parts retro nostalgia. [...]
Trying out digital gardening for evergreen writing 🔗
I want to test out how a digital garden might work for me. [...]
Apple Passwords as a developer 🔗
How I moved to Apple Passwords as a heavy 1Password user. [...]
Organising my organisation 🔗
Moving all my to-dos to one place. [...]
Backing up emails and code repositories 🔗
I’ve been thinking more about the backups I have and how often I do them. [...]
Sending HSTS headers over plain HTTP 🔗
Why I’m sending the HSTS header over plain HTTP but not redirecting to HTTPS. [...]
Deploying an Astro site to Synology 🔗
A quick writeup on how I deploy my static Astro site to my Synology NAS. [...]
Moving to local hosting 🔗
I’ve made the plunge to host my website myself and have full control. [...]
Minimalist or maximalist? 🔗
I tend to switch between the two but can’t seem to settle on either. [...]
Removing until there’s nothing left to remove 🔗
I’m trying to strip back my website back to its most basic form. [...]
Getting into retro 🔗
As I get older, I’m inevitably longing for the tech trappings of my youth. [...]
More thoughts on Richard Stallman 🔗
I wrote a piece a few months ago about Richard Stallman. In light of the Stallman Report, I revisit it with fresh eyes. [...]
Moving away from Cloudflare 🔗
Why I’m moving away from Cloudflare to smaller providers. [...]
Introducing Safran 🔗
My new web and mobile app agency is live! [...]
Dynamic to static 🔗
Why I’m moving away from dynamic sites back to static. [...]
How to run Monica CRM in Docker with Caddy 🔗
Use Caddy to proxy requests to PHP-FPM in Docker containers. [...]
Increasing voter turnout 🔗
Turnout in UK elections is lower than it should be, but it doesn’t have to be that way. [...]
A signature is not my name 🔗
There are too many companies who insist my signature must resemble my name. [...]
Why I left Monzo 🔗
A darling startup grew up and forgot its roots. [...]
My computing origin story 🔗
How I started off on my lifelong computing journey. [...]
Where I won’t work 🔗
There are some industries that are just too devoid of a social conscience to work in. [...]
Building Authmenace: an IndieAuth server 🔗
A super-simple IndieAuth authorization and token endpoint with no database. [...]
Introducing JSON-WF 🔗
A new JSON-based format for sharing blogrolls. [...]
Linux: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you 🔗
The sheer arrogance of some in the community puts off everyday users and potential converts. [...]
Guestbook spam - already! 🔗
I got my first piece of guestbook spam less than a day after making it live. [...]
Building a guestbook with Astro and Cloudflare Pages 🔗
Here’s how I built a simple guestbook for my website using Astro and hosting on Cloudflare Pages. [...]
Richard Stallman as a figurehead, or, knowing when you’re not the right person for the job 🔗
Richard Stallman has admirable grit and has achieved more than a lot of other people, but he is not the right person to be the public face of the soft [...]
HMRC: can you be any more difficult to work with? 🔗
Wherein we discuss how HMRC seems hellbent on making it as difficult as possible to work with them. [...]
Recreating my first PC 🔗
Looking back with fondness at my first Windows desktop. [...]
Getting an msn.com email address in 2024 🔗
How to rock that ’90s feeling with @msn.com. [...]