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EmojiStorm 🔗

You know how sometimes you do one thing then you think "oh I'll do this other thing" then another thing related to that and the next thing you know yo [...]

Chicken Tinga Recipe 🔗

I haven't stopped thinking about this recipe since I made it for the first time last week. It's from Brian Lagerstrom who is my favourite YouTube chef [...]

Link Dump #5 🔗

Time for a heaving link dump becuase I'm well into triple figures in my Raindrop inbox. First up are a pair of intorductions: one to Alpine.js by Blak [...]

App Defaults 2024 🔗

It's been just over a year since Dual of the Defaults burst into our lives and my time was consumed by tracking nearly 400 blog posts. Rather than wri [...]

Installing GoToSocial on Coolify 🔗

For various reasons I had occasion this evening to give GoToSocial a try so I installed it on my server that's running Coolify but hit a couple of iss [...]

Stopping Mastodon From Fetching Metadata for My Notes 🔗

I'm trying to move towards POSSE for my short/micro posts and one thing I wasn't sure about was if those short posts should link back to the source or [...]

Useful Bluesky Tools 🔗

I've been helping getting MacStories setup on Bluesky this weekend and I came across a few handy sites. There are loads of interesting Bluesky-related [...]

I Was a Guest On AppStories This Week 🔗

The past few weeks AppStories has had a different MacStories host as a guest and this week was my turn. In the AppStories+ pre-show we talk about the [...]

Buffalo Sauce Recipe 🔗

I don't know where I got this recipe but it's buffalo sauce so I suspect it's mostly the same from everyone but here we are, final day of recipe week. [...]

Leek and Bacon Jacket Potatoes Recipe 🔗

Day six of Recipe Week. This is certainly not healthy in any way at all but god damn is it tasty. Leek and Bacon Jacket Potatoe [...]

Naming My Computers 🔗

Alex has an excellent post about how they name their computers which is, as they mention, a very important part of setting up a new device. Unlike Ale [...]

Toad in the Hole Recipe 🔗

Right folks, this is the laziest "recipe" ever but it's great so here we are: toad in the hole. I will take a better photo next time I make it, I had [...]

More Unorganised Thoughts about Bluesky 🔗

I got a lot of feedback from my last post which fell into two categories: either about the technical implementations or why someone is using Bluesky o [...]

Unorganised Thoughts about Bluesky 🔗

These thoughts about Bluesky are unorganised and mostly off-the-cuff so make of that what you will. The API, even just for posting, strikes me as very [...]

Flatiron Mac and Cheese Recipe 🔗

This recipe came to me via my friend Ali, who had it at The Flatiron Room when he was living in New York. He's made it for us a bunch of times, includ [...]

Cheesy Chicken and Bacon Pasta Recipe 🔗

Recipe week day three is a cheesy chicken and bacon pasta that I tried for the first time last week and it was banging. You should try it. [...]

Candied Jalapenos Recipe 🔗

Day two of recipe week is this recipe for candied jalopenos that I like to make a batch of at the start of the summer for pizzas on my Ooni. [...]

Mango Chicken Curry Recipe 🔗

As promised last week, this week is recipe week. This is one we batch cook for Baby Knight every few weeks and she can't get enough of it. The last ba [...]

Adding Cooklang Support to Eleventy Three Ways 🔗

Note I had already built most of this before I saw Mat had already done this including making a plugin available. Lesson learned, maybe Google it firs [...]

Why Is No One Using the Recipe Schema? 🔗

While working on my recipe handling for this site as outlined in my previous post I realised that there are many recipe-related browser extensions ava [...]

Thinking About Recipe Formats More Than Anyone Should 🔗

I've had a note in my todo list for quite a while to get my (admittedly small) collection of recipes on my website. The note mentioned to look into Co [...]

We Got Family Season Two 🔗

We Got Family is a podcast I do with David Darnes about the Fast and Furious movies. In season one we did the first four movies, plus a bonus episode [...]

WeblogPoMo AMA 🔗

Annie has set a WeblogPoMo challenge for this month, Ask Me Anything: I'm calling this challenge WeblogPoMo AMA (Ask Me Anything). For this challenge [...]

Using Setapp 🔗

I've had my eye on Setapp since it launched in 2017 but it's never been the right time for me to jump in...until this week. I really wanted to use God [...]

Copy SSH Keys to a Server 🔗

Every time I've setup a server in the past decade the SSH keys have been set for me, most hosts I've used do this (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc). This w [...]

Using Miniflux with Reeder and NetNewsWire 🔗

Trying to find the answer to how to use Miniflux with Reeder (app) and the Google Reader API proved to be a bit difficult due to the similarly of the [...]

Mark One Enigma Edition Pen Review 🔗

During September I donated to Enigma Stationery's campaign and was entered into a raffle to win the Mark One Enigma Edition and...I actually won! I've [...]

Obsidian Tasks and Godspeed 🔗

Two weeks ago I tooted: Lord help me I'm back on Obsidian Tasks again I came up with a nice solution for what I wanted. Show the first todo item in ea [...]

Moving my DNS Records with DNSControl 🔗

After setting up DNSControl I wanted to use it to move away from DigitalOcean[1] to Bunny DNS. I'd already moved my servers to Hetzner but the DNS was [...]

Fix Crackly Audio When Using Bluetooth Headphones on MacOS 🔗

Every now and again I start listening to music on MacOS through my headphones and the audio is tinny and crackly. After some dicking around with quitt [...]

Setting Up DNSControl 🔗

When I linked to this post about DNS, Dave replied and mentioned he uses DNSControl for managing this kind of stuff. I'd heard of it before but never [...]

Things I Like: 8BitDo Keycaps 🔗

When 8BitDo announced they were selling a new keycap set that matched my keyboard I got from them I ordered immediately. I didn't need new keycaps for [...]

Our Wedding Photographer Was Terrible 🔗

This was going to be a scathing review of our wedding photographer I planned on posting because I was furious having waited 6 months to get the photos [...]

Setting Up Mastodon Author Tags 🔗

Mastodon 4.3 released today with a bunch of features but the one most people, including me, are excited about is author tags - this isn't the name of [...]

Never Send me a TikTok Video 🔗

Today a friend shared a video on TikTok with me that I promptly sent to my wife because I knew she would find it funny. It is funny (this is a non-tra [...]

I Finally Saw, and Used, an App Clip 🔗

Update A previous version of this post said app clips were introduced seven years ago because AI summaries are dumb and Google is all the more stupid [...]

The Sticker Book 🔗

Me every time I open a drawer at my desk: Wow I have a lot of stickers in this drawer that I've never used because I'm paralysed with choice about whe [...]

St Jude 2024 Recap 🔗

Relay's St Jude campaign for 2024 is (mostly) over and they raised over one million dollars, which is incredible. This year for our campaign, me and A [...]

Alternatives to Wordpress 🔗

After all the Wordpress drama this week I tooted the following: We really need a new, easy to use, CMS written in PHP to compete with Wordpress. Why P [...]

The Robb Jobb 🔗

While watching this video about making wine from Monster[1] this morning and thinking about how I want nothing more than to try it, I wondered how thi [...]

MagSafe Miscellania 🔗

Last week I asked if anyone had suggestions for a MagSafe car mount and I got a ton of recommendations. Loads of love for Peak Design but I'm not payi [...]

My First Car Lasted Less Time Than Liz Truss Did as Prime Minister 🔗

Ten days ago, I passed my driving test and my dad was kind enough to give me my mum's old car: a 2011 Smart Fortwo. The plan was I would drive this fo [...]

St Jude 2024 🔗

tl;dr: Donate to our campaign here at stjude.omg.lol. It's basically September which means it's childhood cancer awareness month and time for Relay's [...]

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