Ash Fetchum 🔗
As I mentioned in this post I set up Forgejo recently to move away from GitHub but one of the things that worried me was backups. I know I shouldn't b [...]
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Back to Alfred 🔗
In 2024 I switched to Raycast from Alfred. I'd been a long time Alfred user but I was tempted by Raycast's shiny UI and better integration with things [...]
Code Corners 🔗
It's been 10 years since Tim Holman made GitHub corners, the little triangle with the waving Octocat you see on some open source projects, including m [...]
Notes on Setting up Forgejo on Coolify with SSH 🔗
For reasons that I'll write about on another post, I had occasion to setup my own instance of Forgejo - "a self-hosted lightweight software forge", ak [...]
Weeknote #1987 🔗
I've spent an ungodly amount of time this week thinking about the Roman Empire how IRC could work for small communities - clients, servers, setup, mai [...]
Forgejo Support for EchoFeed 🔗
I've just merged in support for Forgejo to EchoFeed. Forgejo is a "self-hosted lightweight software forge" aka "We have GitHub at home"[1]. Adam is ru [...]
Now (January 2026) 🔗
My last now update was November and I was hunting for a pink ink. I found it and I've been using it constantly since then. I have a new sticker pack, [...]
Pilot Kire-na Highlighters Review 🔗
Last week I bought two sets of Pilot Kire-na highlighters: the basic set and the pale set because I bloody love highlighters and they won the Japanese [...]
Random Monster Generator 🔗
I've had this idea in my list for a long time - generate random can colours and name for Monster because why not. I finally got it done this week and [...]
Bullet Journal Is a System for Selling More Bullet Journal 🔗
When I bit the bullet early last year, my first stop was the Bullet Journal website. What I found there was everything one might need to get started: [...]
88x31 Button Curios 🔗
Usually if I find an 88x31 button related thing I'd bookmark it and pop it in my weeknotes but over the past few days, a smorgasbord of related links [...]
Weeknote #1982 🔗
The kids are both in nursery now and I'm back at work after two weeks off at Christmas. The sticker sales are going well, I've just about broken even [...]
String Replacements on EchoFeed 🔗
One request I've had quite a bit for EchoFeed is to be able to handle specific, known usernames, between Mastodon and Bluesky where they are different [...]
App Defaults 2026 🔗
It's been a couple of years since my first post in this series. In 2024 I did an "updates only" list but I think it's worth going for a full list agai [...]
Logitech Options+ Alternatives for MacOS 🔗
Update 2026-01-07 It turns out Logitech let their developer certificate expire which is equally stupid for a $10 billion company. Also, as pointed out [...]
Pens, Inks, and Obsidian Bases 🔗
I finally got around to trying out Obsidian Bases this evening but I needed a relatively small dataset to try it with. So I grabbed my ink export from [...]
EchoFeed Profiles 🔗
I'll say this up front: I don't want EchoFeed to be a social network. There are many platforms better suited to that and EchoFeed isn't it. Having sai [...]
Weeknote #1981 🔗
Final day of the year, final weeknote of 2025. The sticker shop is live as of a couple of weeks ago with a handful of stickers I think you'll like. I' [...]
Just 2025 Things 🔗
I really need a better structure for these. I find it so hard every year to remember what to include and in which section. Herein I shall attempt to d [...]
New Stickers, New Store, Who Dis? 🔗
tl;dr: I have a proper shop now with new sticker designs which you can find here. If you've been following along for the past 6 months, I designed fou [...]
Fix for Slow Open and Save Dialog on MacOS 🔗
Since I updated to MacOS Tahoe 26.1 the open/save dialog of Finder became unbearably slow, like five seconds for every navigation step. I found this t [...]
Weeknote #1978 🔗
Things are in motion to get a proper sticker shop online early in the new year - I have a new sticker I'm excited to make plus I'm going to keep stock [...]
Hunting for the Hottest Pink Ink 🔗
When I was on The Pen Addict a few weeks ago, I mentioned I was looking for the hottest pink ink the world has to offer to go with my Estie Funky Town [...]
2025 Stickers Redux 🔗
Now the dust has settled on the piracy stickers, I checked how many I had left and it was a few more than I thought so I'm putting them back up for sa [...]
Weeknote #1975 🔗
I've narrowed down the inks I'm going to try for finding my perfect pink ink to a handful. I'm planing on ordered Taccia Momo first because this is th [...]
Now (November 2025) 🔗
I'm hunting for the best pink ink to match with my Funky Town Estie. As always, Mountain of Ink is an incredible resource for such things and there wa [...]
Weeknote #1973 🔗
It's been a while since my last weeknote and it's fine - this is why I'm not committing to doing them weekly. We are hurtling towards the end of the y [...]
Inktober? Completed It Mate 🔗
After my adventures with getting okay at drawing I decided to have a go at participating in Inktober - one drawing every day for 31 days based on a pr [...]
I Was a Guest on The Pen Addict 🔗
Myke was off this week so Brad asked me to fill in on episode 689 of The Pen Addict. We caught up on what I've been up to since the last time I was o [...]
Pilot Juice Space Smash Set 🔗
I posted in July about the Pilot Juice Planet Labyrinth set which are neon editions of the juice line. I had mentioned there was a second set called S [...]
The Internet Is Cool Actually 🔗
On my desk right now I have: A copy of issue one of Good Internet magazine The Internet Phonebook The print version of S3 of Foofaraw Unch issue 1, a [...]
Get Okay 🔗
Of all the things parents can annoy you with the clichés are the worst. "You won't know until you try". Okay mum, whatever you say. I think you know w [...]
St Jude 2025 Recap 🔗
It's the 2nd of October, AKA Bonus September which means Relay's St Jude campaign is more-or-less over, having blown past the $700k target. Adam and I [...]
Weeknote #1966 🔗
We've raised over ten thousand dollars for St Jude as of right now, with a couple of weeks left of September to go. You can still get stickers and I'v [...]
St Jude 2025 🔗
tl;dr: Donate to our campaign here For the third year me and Adam are raising money for St Jude as part of Relay's annual event and podcastathon. You [...]
Weeknote #1963 🔗
It's nearly effectively September, everything is ready and standing by for the start of Relay's annual podcastathon and fundraising event. We have som [...]
Camp Snap Impressions 🔗
Firstly, there were no cursed photos on it. So that's good. I've been wanting to get a Camp Snap camera for a while but they're kind of pricey for wh [...]
Pirate Bay Training Data Stickers 🔗
Update 2025-08-11 A Piracy is a Crime sticker is gunna be included as a bonus thanks to Sophie I went on a bit of a shitposting session on Friday an [...]
Weeknote #1961 🔗
We had to return the Kodak C300R because it kept overheating and not printing. We replaced it with the P300R which is what we were originally going to [...]
Perplexity Doesn’t Give a Shit About Consent 🔗
I linked to this post from CloudFlare yesterday where they showed, based on the data they have, that Perplexity is using all sorts of shitty tactics t [...]
Pepsi Max Pencil Case 🔗
When I was at school there was no pencil case cooler than one that looked like a can of Pepsi, Lucozade, or Coca Cola. At the time, I had a Pepsi Max [...]
Weeknote #1959 🔗
I'm at the end of my first journal and starting a new one on Friday. I've learnt some lessons about what does and doesn't work for me, spent some time [...]
Unorganised Thoughts about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 🔗
I've played a good ten or so hours with the new Tony Hawk game and it does more or less what was promised, and what I expected. The game plays just li [...]
Nuby RapidCool Formula Maker 🔗
When you have a kid you're bombarded with suggestions for products that will solve some problem you have, usually related to keeping said child fed an [...]
KnightPrint's First Run 🔗
Last week my wife and I bought what is commonly known as a Cat Printer: it's a very cheap (< £10) thermal printer that has a cat face on it. The offic [...]
Weeknote #1956 🔗
Hot innit. Too fucking hot. Wednesday night we went up Portsdown Hill with the kids for dinner because we couldn't be bothered to cook so we got burge [...]
Pilot Juice Planet Labyrinth Set 🔗
This is a set of 0.5mm Pilot Juice pens in neon pink, green, and orange. "Planet Labyrinth" is the set name - theres also a set available called "Spac [...]
2025 Mildliners Calm Set 🔗
I said in this post that I ordered the new 2025 Mildliners and they arrived this morning. These are some excellent colours and I'm amazed they've been [...]
Weeknote #1955 🔗
Lots of random things this week, no coherence, just chaos. This interaction with Zoe made me laugh: that photo is so you stickers the four genders Thi [...]
Now (July 2025) 🔗
It's been six months since my last /now post which is, to paraphrase Dan, really stetching the definition of "now". In the previous post I said "I'm d [...]