I used to be healthier (didn’t we all?). I am not. To motivate myself I’m doing the endure24 event. How far can I move this blubbery body in 24 hours? I’m hoping to do 10 laps of a 5-mile forest track. I’m also trying to do it for a good cause, so if you feel like helping please chip in. (Obviously I’m going to try and over-engineer some data for it as well.)
Being Weird
I’m having great fun writing pages on the new HL (coming soon ™). I’m embracing just doing things because they’re fun and weird and because I want to do them.
Continue reading »Web Components
As for of New HL(tm), I’ve been playing around with Web Components to try and get some of that framework feeling, without loading 100kb+ of js.
Continue reading »Sticky Games
I’ve been on a run of tech posts recently so I want to do something totally different. I’m currently pulling together loads of old films, books, and games for the new site and wanted to make a Top 10 list but realised I don’t actually care about ratings. I’ve sunk more time in a mid-tier game than many best-of winners. So I want to make just a random list of games that are “sticky”, ones that have held my focus and/or my memories. They’re more ordered by when I first played them but then again, maybe not.
Continue reading »Data Prisons
I’m slowly pulling data into the new HybridLogic. In the process I’m realising a. how many other services I use, even after culling them a few years ago, and b. how many services now are complete and utter data prisons.
Continue reading »Ruffling Digi27
2005-05-22. That’s the timestamp in the first docblock on digi27.com. Feels like an eternity ago. The site is… bad. Twenty year younger me was not a good coder (so some things don’t change). But as part of the fallout from Apple killing Flash, Digi27 has kind of been pointless for a while.
Continue reading »Micro-Blogging
I’m currently berries-deep in the new version of this site. It’s not perfect. It’ll never be perfect. But I’ve wanted to make a new version for over ten years now. In the meantime, to actually make sure I’m using it, I’ve added a little micro-blog updates feed to it.
It’s what Twitter used to be. Back when the textarea had a prefix of “Currently…”. It feels nice to be journalling again as well. Seeing tweets from 2006, recalling days. I’m going to miss the five plus years I didn’t have any of that. Stupid OSINT.
As for when it’ll be done: never. As for when I’ll swap this old WordPress thing over to it: by 8th June latest.
Train Book
I read a book on the train into town today. I miss reading books while on public transport.
Project Book Retro
It’s four years since the first commit to Work Project #2. With over 10,000 commits, thousands of deployments, a couple of hours downtime, and lots of paying customers (please more though), I wanted to take a second to look back on all of the many decisions. What was good, what was crap. Do again, change next time?
Continue reading »Long-in-the-Tooth
16 years ago I took on my first “proper” job. I’d done manual labour, I’d made websites for friends and family, but 16 years ago I got chatting to someone over Twitter DMs (this brand new feature) followed by CoD4 lobbies and started working with them.
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