Of all the changes I made to my website this year, the gigs page is my favouriteThe gold standard of the IndieWeb /concerts slashpage, in my mind, is Lynn Fisher's. It has everything you would expect. The cool ticket stub design even includes the seat numbers. It's not a boring list of concerts but rather a lovingly...

I passed my driving test today! I'm relieved. It took me a lot of (expensive) lessons to be test-ready. It's done now. Finding a cheap car isn't going to be easy, and cheap insurance doesn't exist. But I'm looking forward to this new phase of freedom.

Join us this month to talk all things personal websitesThis month's Homebrew Website Club Europe events have now been scheduled. You can find a list of them here. The events are hosted by James, and I will be in the background helping out. Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites...

Why I have no interest in films about musicians I admireFor some time now, I’ve had a rule about not watching music-related biopics. They don't interest me in the least. I would happily watch a biopic of an activist, politician, author, painter, sports figure, or anyone else of note. Just not a musician. Especially...

Aerial views are great, but they eat up too much spaceThis is not so much a "hack" as a "how on earth did I let that happen!" I realised while looking at the Storage on my MacBook Air M1 (great machine, still going strong after 6 years of use) that System Data was taking up 70+ gigabytes of space. This isn't an...

James and I setting up today's meetup before the other participants joined. Web meetup for all things personal websitesFor those unaware, Homebrew Website Club is a series of regular events hosted by the IndieWeb community where participants talk about personal websites. You don't need to be a coder to take part;...

Now that I have the right tools, writing whenever inspiration hits is easy. But I need to make some changes.Having just returned from a run I find myself writing as if in a frenzy. I'm working on another post for this month's Bear Blog Carnival; it's got me very excited. This post requires some work. Not just...

I skipped my 10K run on Sunday. My knees had been hurting a bit. In fact, they still do. My plan is to get back into the schedule tomorrow with a 5K; perhaps I should run a little slower.

Discovered this app called Too Good To Go, which lets you order perfectly fine food nearby restaurants would otherwise have thrown away at the end of the day. At a fraction of the price, too. So much for trying to loose weight.

New companion for writingI have discovered yet another writing app. This one lets me connect my Astro project's content collections, pulls the defined schema from my content.config.ts file, and lets me write Markdown in a distraction free environment. It's not a note-taking app that I can use on the go for...

Don't ask ChatGPT. Ask a friend.

On taking comfort in communal musical experiencesThis post is one in a series of my entries for the September 2026 Bear Blog Carnival themed Music Memories. Almost to the day four years ago, having packed our life into a few bags and moved across continents, we landed in a new country. We didn't know anyone in...