Another pre-gig dispatchWhile browsing the IndieWeb wiki looking for /now page examples the other day, I came across Max Dietrich's now page, which has a section that displays his current location and the weather there. I wanted to add something similar to mine. After a bit of research, I found out that the best way...

Hello SSGI've been thinking of ditching WordPress for a static site generator (SSG) for some time now. WordPress has been great for the last 12 years, and I have no gripes with it as such (except the block editor, which just refuses to co-operate sometimes), but rebuilding a (version of this) site from the ground up...

A serif with personalityI happened upon the This American Life website the other day, and fell absolutely and utterly in love with the typeface. After a quick search I found out that it was called Maiola, designed by Veronika Burian of TypeTogether (Futura, Athelas). I had to get it. To my great delight, I...

A dramatic coastal walk with killer views It is finally spring in Northern Ireland. The threat of sudden rainfall never really goes away, but it's sunnier than usual. We decided to take advantage of the good weather last weekend, by venturing outdoors see a part of the country we haven't seen before. We had planned...

A decent startI just returned from the first run of the 3rd week of my Couch to 5k programme, and I'm feeling surprisingly good. Here's what today's run looked like: Start with a pre-run stretch (I've found this quick 5 minute stretch to be quite effective) A brisk 5-minute walk to warm up A 90-second running...

Finding joy in web designI'm really leaning in to the idea of treating my website like a digital garden—a truly personal corner of the internet. I've made a few changes with this in mind: A new /garden page, where I've aggregated links to all sections of the site, such as my blog (/notebook), /now, /uses, etc....

Denise Weinberg as Tereza in The Blue Trail Some thoughts on two recent Brazilian cinema outingsTwo of my favourite films this year so far are from Brazil—The Blue Trail, and The Secret Agent. Both feature individuals on a similar journey, in that they are desperately trying to escape the tyrannical grasp of a...

A forgotten artI had to spend the day without any podcasts playing in my ears. I had simply exhausted my playlist. I cleaned the house, went out to get groceries, cooked, and washed the dishes without my headphones on. This is the first time in a long while this has happened to me. It's a strange feeling to spend an...

My second vibe-coding projectI have been continuing to use Lovable to make things for personal use. My second public project is a data visualiser, specifically, one that can be used with CSV exports from my personal finance app of choice, Finances 2. I've named it Finviz. Not the most imaginative name, but it gets...

This silly Wordle “hack” I came up with has gone placesDon't ask me how I found out, but my Wordle hack has now been cited in two peer-reviewed computer science papers. I knew about one. This paper by my friend Nisansa was published in Feb 2022, in the height of the Wordle craze: Selecting Seed Words for Wordle...

Keeping a diary of performances I’ve witnessedMy attempt to turn this website into a disjointed, mini-social-media-site for myself has resulted in yet another brand new section: a gig timeline. I decided not to limit this to just music. I am documenting theatre performances, talks, and other kinds of performance art...

Leaving a digital footprintI spent some time earlier this month archiving two past projects that I had been involved in. The first was the podcast—The Bad Take—I used to host with my friend Himal. We started in 2018, and recorded the occasional episode until our last one in 2022. Producing regular episodes was no...