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How to Verify an Apple Podcasts Claim in Your RSS Feed 🔗

If you need to claim a podcast on Apple Podcasts, a show that's linked to another account and you want to move it to yours, you can follow this guide [...]

Stickers, Maths, and Postage 🔗

A few days ago, I put ~60 envelopes in the postbox to be whisked away to various places across the world. I got 63 orders in total for the stickers ( [...]

The Rickies TRMNL Plugin 🔗

I was listening to the results of the Rickies a couple of days ago and realised it was a perfect candidate for a plugin for my TRMNL. Both Rickipedia [...]

Self-Hosted Podcast Solutions and Also Apple Can Suck a Big One 🔗

Yesterday I asked if anyone knew of an iOS podcast app that also had a self-hostable backend or one with a sanctioned API. I have two requirements I'm [...]

One Week with TRMNL 🔗

Last week I ordered a TRMNL. It's an 800x480 e-ink screen with a plugin system and a little kickstand. /save Use the code robb15 to get $15 off. I g [...]

omg.lol Interview Series 🔗

Can you share a bit about yourself with us? I'm a cat dad to a cat called Morpheus and a human dad to two girls. I'm a developer in my day job but I a [...]

Weeknote #1951 🔗

It's June already somehow. Wild. The passage of time comes for us all. We had to say goodbye to our cat Morpheus at the weekend. He had fluid in his l [...]

Five Months of Journalling 🔗

Style Guide Notice Journalling can be spelt with one "L" or two, the latter being the British English way so that's what I've gone for. I started doin [...]

Don't @ Me Stickers 🔗

Update 2025-05-26 Now includes a "websites 🪄" sticker as well Last week on the 'don I said: is MTU dns related? Don't know, don't care, don't @ me a [...]

Weeknote #1949 🔗

I never liked the link dump name for what was essentially weeknotes - the name was bad and I had other things I wanted to include[1]. I'm never going [...]

Fix ERR_SSL_BAD_RECORD_MAC_ALERT on MacOS 🔗

I got a new MacBook a couple of weeks ago but since I've had it I've not been able to use Tesco's website to do my shopping but I'd just ignored it an [...]

Hack Club: Post Filtering on EchoFeed 🔗

On Sunday, the folks who run Hack Pompey hosted a new event at the offices of Waffle they're calling Hack Club: a relaxed a day of coding on our side [...]

New Logo, Who Dis? 🔗

Last week Kevin posted about running sponsorships on Foofaraw and I figured it would be a nice, small-scale experiment with running ads for EchoFeed s [...]

I Bought the Tomb Raider Pen 🔗

I resisted as long as I could, gang. I bought the tomb raider pen I couldn't stop thinking about. I got it for £25 which quite frankly seems like a b [...]

Hack Pompey: Portal Kombat 🔗

On Saturday I attended Hack Pompey which was in collaboration with Sea Change this year: The Sea Change project will design, build and operate a ‘shor [...]

One Line Pen Reviews 🔗

There's no way I can write reviews of all the pens I’ve bought over the past two months so instead here's some one line reviews of them because I told [...]

I Am Obsessed With this Tomb Raider Pen 🔗

Last week I happened across a listing for a Lara Croft/Tomb Raider Waterman fountain pen, specifically this model: We discussed it in the omg.lol dis [...]

I Was a Guest on The Pen Addict 🔗

While Myke is on paternity leave, Brad asked me to be a guest on The Pen Addict podcast to discuss my newly-found analogue tool addiction. We discusse [...]

A Lucky Lamy Listing 🔗

A few days ago while browsing Vinted I happened upon a listing with the title "Ink Pens" and a description: "6 ink pens with some spare cartridges". T [...]

Things I Like: The Severance Podcast 🔗

I love hearing all the behind the scenes stuff but the guests really make the show. Gwendoline Christie in particular was incredible. I don't know whe [...]

Music, Games, and Skateboarding 🔗

For Christmas 2001 I got a Playstation 2 and a copy of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3[1]. I had played Tony Hawk 1 and 2 at a friend's house a handful of ti [...]

Link Dump #6 🔗

A whole load of stuff this round, I've was ill a lot of last week, got very behind on everything, so here's all the hot links I had saved. The hardest [...]

Quiet 🔗

There was a post on Reddit yesterday that I didn't save, and now can't find, that said something along the lines of "I'm trying out Mastodon but my ti [...]

How Many Mildliner Colours Are There? 🔗

Remember a week ago when I bought some Zebra Mildliners? Well now I have all of them because I have no self control. But how many are there?. If you c [...]

We Need to Talk About Zoe Being Wrong About Islands 🔗

Firstly, I'd like to thank my right honorable friend for giving me an advanced copy of her post. A few months ago, as we are wont to do, Zoe and I got [...]

Lihit Labs Compact Pen Case Review 🔗

I started bullet journalling a month ago and it's my understanding that part of getting into analogue tools is buying too many pens and shit. Well I h [...]

My First Digital Photo 🔗

Adam tooted earlier about the first photo he ever took with a digital camera and it got me thinking about what mine was. Initially I thought it was th [...]

A Small Rabbit Hole of Utility Knives 🔗

The Palmer utility knife was mentioned on the latest episode of The Pen Addict and it sent me down a rabbit hole, albeit a small one. Studio Neat have [...]

Zebra Big 30 Pack of Pens 🔗

I wanted to buy a pack of mildliners to add some colour to my bullet journal and they mostly come in packs of five which is plenty for one person. Whe [...]

Loading Pixelfed Photos with Eleventy 🔗

I'm no longer using Pixelfed so the code I used to pull in my latest photos into Eleventy is redundant but it might be useful to other people. For USE [...]

Music Questions Challenge 🔗

I was tagged by Flamed and someone else in the omg.lol Signal chat (but there's too many messages to check who it was). What are five of your favourit [...]

My Pebble Steel is (Mostly) Dead 🔗

With the news that Pebble is coming back I dug out my Pebble Steel to see if it still worked. After fiddling around with the terrible charging cable, [...]

Doubts about Pixelfed 🔗

I have a Pixelfed account. I don't post much, but it's there. I like having a dedicated place to post photos. I like seeing other people's photos. Le [...]

Mechanical Pencils 🔗

I asked for recommendations for mechanical pencils in the Relay and omg.lol Discords and here’s what was recommended: Uniball Kuru Toga - this one has [...]

Blog Question Challenge 🔗

I was tagged by Kyle and B to do this so here it is. Why Did You Start Blogging In The First Place? Initially I thought I'd be some hot take blogger g [...]

Now (January 2025) 🔗

This is the first in a new series of posts to populate my /now page with a blog post. A moment in time. What I'm doing now. A record of what I was doi [...]

On Transient Slash Pages 🔗

A couple of weeks ago Chris said this about slash pages: I think it makes more sense to me to write about what I carry around right now and if I did i [...]

Biting the Bullet 🔗

I’ve been todo hoarding. I have Reminders, Obsidian, and Godspeed all with different types of todos in them. Plus GitHub issues, Mastodon mentions, an [...]

Just 2024 Things 🔗

I had second child. No time for anything else. Thank you for reading. Personal Home and DIY In September during some rather heavy rain we forgot to br [...]

My Home Screen (December 2024) 🔗

Since I last shared my home screen at the start of the year, iOS18 added dark mode icons which I immediately switched on. I still have a couple of app [...]

I Was a Guest on Conduit 🔗

A couple of weeks ago, Jay reached out to see if I’d be like to be a guest on Conduit and of course I immediately said yes. We spoke about some of my [...]

How Long Since I Watched Mean Girls? 🔗

"When did Robb last watch Mean Girls?" A question that no one except me cares about but here we are, writing about a website I made to answer that one [...]

Lens: Meta Tag Checker (Robb's Version) 🔗

There are a few ways people like to check the meta tags on their sites. I previously used Metatags.io but there's also Hey Meta and probably a lot mor [...]

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 [...]