As part of my birthday present earlier this year, Fern got me a half day cooking course for Outdoor Dirty Cooking and smoking workshop from Howl Bushcraft, which took place a couple of Sundays ago. As part of the workshop, we learned to smoke fish, venison, and cook over an open fire using leaves to add flavour, and...

Sorry for the radio silence, for I’ve experienced a lot of first world problems. I’ve had some ups and downs the last few weeks, it’s fair to say. I think I shared the majority of them on the Now page, but the main one was that my laptop had experienced a battery failure, meaning I had to transfer over to my Windows...

This article did the rounds on my socials and on Bubbles, on how the publisher Panic receives mail by asking for it at the end of their games. It’s something I was aware of, I finished one of their games (Thank Goodness You’re Here!) and sent them a postcard – I think it was a picture of the high street of the town...

What have I been upto? I’ve had a couple of quiet weeks with work, so been using this time to catch up. This week is largely the same – I’ve only got one contracted day in the calendar at the moment. I used to be a bit nervous about this, but it’s weirdly normal around the end of April I find. I’ve got enough to be...

I’ve talked far too much about AI and how the world is going to shit on my blog over the last week and a bit. Let’s have a blog cleanse. I mentioned this on my Now page, but over the Easter weekend I treated my mum for a big birthday to the Primate Experience at the Welsh Mountain Zoo, and I wanted to share the...

So this is interesting, I was on The Verge last week, as part of the wider discussion on EmDash, I posted a blog post on my thoughts on EmDash, which was cited a bit. I should add – there’s some paywalling on The Verge, so if you can’t see it, sorry. I remember when the story broke on April Fools Day (seriously),...

Why you shouldn’t use AI to generate your poster. Over the Easter weekend I was taking a stroll down the Rhos-on-Sea promenade, and noticed the following community noticeboard promoting local events. I stopped, took a photo, and went on my merry way. Of the posters, I can confidently say that there is a Betws-Y-Coed...

What have I been upto? Last week saw me attend the Newton-le-Willows beer festival on Thursday, and for only the second time since I started drinking again, I was hungover. This lead to me being very delicate on the Friday – thankfully I had a quiet Friday. But it was good see everybody again. I blew away the final...

Bubbles appeared in my analytics today and it could be a fun little project. It seems to be a version of Hacker News for personal and those sites that are non commercial. In short, it curates a bunch of feeds from a bunch of sources (see them here) and then people can upvote on the posts they like, and over time the...