A return and a redesign 🔗
It's hard to believe I haven't added to my site in a year. There's a few reasons why: Life got busy. I started feeling pretty cynical about sharing on [...]
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November 22, 2025 2:29 PM
How good is being a full-stacker? You can make anything you want!!! Reply by email [...]
October 27, 2025 12:33 PM
I’ve been rewriting one of my home-cooked SvelteKit apps with Go and DataStar. Had to wrap my head around the paradigm shift (I’ve never tried HTMX) a [...]
Who needs a flying car when you have display: grid 🔗
A friend asked me if I could build him a simple website for his new Mechanical Engineering business: just a few pages showing off what they’re about a [...]
A letter to myself: Strategies 🔗
When you put something in the oven and need to remember to take it out, or put washing in the machine and need to remember to hang it out, or need to [...]
October 3, 2025 11:56 AM
Shouts to the YNAB team for making some top quality web software. I've been using the site for 8 years, have not run in to anything buggy or broken ev [...]
September 25, 2025 10:08 AM
Anybody else compulsively hit ⌘+S no less than 5 times per save? Reply by email [...]
Month notes & numbers No. 16 🔗
August 2025 Notable I turned 39!. A pretty low-key birthday, but overall I'm feeling really good about things in my life at the moment. I went to watc [...]
August 26, 2025 5:30 AM
As a kid I was resentful about being made to learn classical piano while other kids got to play pop songs. Now I’m like why would I want to play pop w [...]
August 23, 2025 8:38 AM
When I go back to a dynamically typed language (Ruby) after working in a statically typed language (Go) I wonder how I even built anything with this t [...]
August 10, 2025 1:23 PM
I think this might make me officially old and crotchety but I think iOS/iPadOS 26 looks terrible and I hate it 👵🏻😭 Reply by email [...]
Month notes & numbers No. 15 🔗
June & July 2025 It's funny that in the last update I wrote about how great my journaling practice is for remembering things, and then life got so bus [...]
A stack of browsers 🔗
I was a very happy Arc user for a couple of years, but after The Browser Company announced they would no longer be working on it, I started to assess [...]
Pages CMS 🔗
Recently I've been experimenting with adding title-less notes to this site, for thoughts the length of a microblog or social post. Around the same tim [...]
May 22, 2025 10:06 AM
This movie really had 12-year-old me thinking this is how American High School Proms actually worked. Play Video: She's All That: Dance Off Reply [...]
May 16, 2025 6:34 AM
Spotify streaming quality has completely gone to pot. It does this thing where it skips (kind of like an old CD would) and then tries to make up for i [...]
Month notes & numbers No. 14 🔗
May 2025 This month's update is a little ode to the practice of journaling. Part way through April I caught gastro 😭 and in this moment of weakness [ [...]
April 18, 2025 5:58 AM
Not me getting the warm and fuzzies from a lovely compliment about my writing, until I realise its just AI-generated bot activity posting for backlink [...]
The difference between programs and products 🔗
The whole “vibe coding” thing is another reminder that quite a lot of people working in tech don’t understand the difference between programs and prod [...]
April 15, 2025 5:36 PM
I would be so happy to never have to see an image of Mark Zuckerberg again. Reply by email [...]
A lack of frequency increases the pressure to deliver quality 🔗
I have this story in my head, that the longer I go without writing a note here, the better that note has to be when I do eventually come back and post [...]
Month notes & numbers No. 13 🔗
March 2025 The latter half of this month was ruined by me catching Covid (my second time). Boooooooo. Notable It was looking like my town was going to [...]
March 19, 2025 5:29 PM
Virginia Woolf in her diary, 1920:1 Such a good morning’s writing I’d planned, and wasted the cream of my brain on the telephone. Girl, same. Footnote [...]
March 13, 2025 10:03 AM
Every now and then Spotify will throw a song in a generated playlist for a band I've never heard of before. Sometimes I'll look them up and discover t [...]
In the way 🔗
I was texting with my best friend. Her mum has cancer, and my friend is going through the brutality of watching it take her piece by piece, just as I [...]
March 11, 2025 2:52 PM
I was listening to a Chillout Classics playlist when I was hit with a sense memory from 2006: just lying in my bed listening to Moby, in the middle of [...]
Month notes & numbers No. 12 🔗
February 2025 Notable February is always the month of getting settled back in to the school routine, and so it flies past and yet feels like nothing m [...]
Month notes & numbers No. 11 🔗
January 2025 Notable Extremely offline could be the theme for this month. While some Australians like to follow find the news coming out of the USA fo [...]
2024 🔗
This year I set a goal to [[My goal for 2024 to remember it|journal every day]] in the hope I can write one of these 2024 year-in-review notes for my [...]
Month notes & numbers No. 10 🔗
November & December 2024 I haven't been too online the last two months because things have been really busy offline. It's good busy - no issues or dra [...]