Notes

I am going to be returning to blogging this year. It’s gotten a little dusty around here, so I’m cleaning the cobwebs and fixing up the broken things.

I’ve removed all the RSS feeds and consolidated them in to one single feed, that will comprise of my articles and notes, I didn’t have a lot of people subscribing, but if you were one of those people (thankyou!) you may need to resubscribe to the new feed.

I enjoyed running an IndieWeb Server and learning so much while doing it, however I have decided to cut down my social media presence online. It’s too much to manage and I don’t have time to do the things I love. Thankfully when I started that journey I built everything in such a way that I could keep the old content and turn it all off.

Instead, moving forward, I will post my thoughts and ideas here, with the occasional use of Bluesky here and there when the mood takes me. I am even hoping to try and do month notes if my new schedule allows it.

Some of the re-design will be in the open and you might notice a few dangly bits. Will do my best to keep it respectful :D

Just a quick update on the redesign, while this is happening all my #micropub #syndication and #webmention functions are paused.

I won’t be sending or recieveing content for a while as I move the main pillars of the website around.

The easiest way to follow my content during this period is to subscribe to my RSS feed.

Playing whack-a-mole with a few bugs and being a grown-up, before racing to the fun redesign stuff. Being a grown-up is hard.

Today is new Macbook Pro day! Finally got my data migrated from the broken machine and I am back in business, itching to get started on the blog.

Squinting in to an iPad, using Sidecar so I can do a few things on my broken laptop before the new one arrives… it kinda works. Kinda.

My 2016 MacBook has been slowly dying over the last two years. It started with broken keys and random restarts and today the screen died and it’s borderline useless. This is going to get expensive…

Staying at a cottage in an olive grove, visiting vineyards. Someone has to I suppose.

Fixed that bug causing the 2019 redesign post to get republished in the JSON and XML feeds everytime I deployed the website. Sorry about that!

Bought myself a new dot grid moleskin to design my website on. I find when I step back from the computer my creativity isn’t bound by constraints and my mind can wonder to interesting places

Just as naming something sets the tone for what a thing can and cannot do in a persons mind. A good content author can really influence a service in a positive way by changing the way a user interacts with your service or interprets what they can do.