After seeing Andy Bell talk about it on his site, I’ve gone ahead and added the ATMosphere plugin to the site to try and publish the site over the ATProtocol (which integrates with Bluesky) using standard.site. If this works well, reacting to this post on BlueSky will mean that likes/boosts/comments will feed...

So this is a bit of a regular feature – I’m going to share piece of tech that I’ve been enjoying that doesn’t suck. Because let’s be honest, technology sucks. Here’s something that’s good, fun, and doesn’t take the piss with their terms & conditions. Late last year I’ve stuck in a new system in my house – the...

Web directories eh? Now that SEO spammers have stopped spamming them, they’re becoming cool again, and I was impressed with Warp Point: a web directory dedicated to one of my favourite subjects: video games. I particularly like that every listing has an 88×31 gif and the widget is really cool. Sadly, I don’t think I...

Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines… This blog post on Unstory is short, but really impactful. 5 paragraphs, and will never rank for anything, but it’s hit me more than any blog post I remember in the past few months. I often think about short blog posts, born of the school of a minimum of 300...

It’s incredibly boring to talk about a music concert in text form, but yesterday I watched the Foo Fighters play live in Anfield, Liverpool as part of the Take Cover 2026 tour. The first hour and a half was incredible, with me grinning throughout. I’m not afraid to say that during Learn to Fly I got a bit emotional...

In the end, it wasn’t even close. I rarely talk about politics here. Not real reason – I believe we should talk more about politics and how things affect us: a blanket “no politics” rule kills a safe space for marginalised communities, but for whatever reason I feel like the permanent nature of blogs and the...

A sausage I’ll remember for a long long time. I love Krakow. I’ve been there four times in the last 10 years, granted it’s a bit biased as I talked about before – my brother got married there in 2016 and having that knowledge on where to go, where to avoid and how to have a good time really helps. But sometimes you...

So I have a few sites with SiteGround. They’re largely sites that don’t get a huge amount of traffic (with the exception of All Rumble Stats, which gets 20k a month). Hosting is a bit like your bank account or your broadband provider: they are there and as long as you don’t do much to annoy them, then you stick with...

What have I been upto? We have quite a bit of a heatwave at the moment in the UK. Been largely getting on top of both personal and professional projects. Personal has seen me sort out a potential pest problem that manifested itself last month, along with some car related activities. Professional has seen me begin to...

Seemingly because it’s now a thing, a few weeks back I stayed a night at The Reserve: luxury accommodation within the walls of Chester Zoo. It was located in the Heart of Africa, so you were surrounded by animals that you tend to see in Africa, with the huts overlooking the enclosure with the giraffes and animals we...

Krakow has a pinball museum. I’ve been a few times. It’s a great place to go for an evening. I’m in Krakow for WordCamp Europe in a few weeks, and I’ve suggested this and Krakow’s parkrun as things I want to do whilst listening to talks about how AI is going to ruin us all. Surprisingly this seems more popular. So...

What have I been upto? Work has ramped up a lot (I’ve been booked up for May, and it’s likely I’ll be booked up for most of June), meaning some projects have fallen by the wayside a bit. The client in a field I like in the last update has ghosted me (seriously why do people ghost? We had a phone call and...