Got my first COVID vaccine today. Didn't really want the AstraZeneca, but was only offered the Pfizer so lucked out I guess. Or someone somewhere else is making my decisions for me.

The whole thing was super slick. So many staff, making sure everyone's funnelled through to the right place in the right order. Was in and out easily in under 25 minutes, and that includes a 15 minute post-needle wait.

Beach huts

05/18/2021

Managed to get out in between rain showers and go for a couple of walks by the sea.

Cycling to TV

05/13/2021

I've been using Zwift with a Wahoo Kickr Core for the last few months and it's been great for keeping me cycling on a regular basis. I'm not really a fair-weather cyclist but the wind gets so bad around here at times, that it's both demoralising and dangerous, so the trainer has been a good compromise.

I made a new friend, and he's a really good blogger. He writes about things I wish I could write about like music and movies, but for some reason I feel like this blog has to be about me and the things I make, and that writing about those things doesn't fit here somehow. I wish it did because when something like that grabs me I feel so compelled to share it, and I don't really have any meaningful way of doing that.

It's given me an idea that will result in one of the following:

  1. A failed social network
  2. A new blog post category here
  3. This short post and nothing else

Not difficult to see the smart bet here.

Details

05/07/2021

This week I needed to make a really big form. It’s really big. Most people don’t like forms, but I’ve always been a bit of a contrarian, and my approach for saving user input on this form got me thinking about how much effort goes into things people take for granted. In code, I mean. Life is way out of scope for a blog post.

IMK Corne

05/01/2021

I've been waiting to build a Corne ever since Perkins told me about how much he loves his. He got his free because he's a big deal, but I had to pay for mine because I am no deal at all.

Saturday Walk to Peacehaven

04/24/2021

There's an episode of Mr Bean where he goes down a load of steps to a beach. That is quite near our house, and coincidentally a really nice walk.

Me: don't upload loads of images to your CMS

Also me: [uploads 750MB of images to a single entry]

The last few weeks

04/22/2021

I have taken a lot of photos over the last few weeks but I can't always be bothered to post them. They go on Instagram so I can get that sweet, sweet attention, but I get no attention here so it always gets neglected.

I am absolutely sick of my devices thinking they're smarter than I am. Every morning I get on my bike to use Zwift, turn on my iPad (for TV) and phone (for Zwift) and my phone is like "he wants to listen to Zwift" and pulls my Airpods from my iPad. I then have to quit one of the apps to force it to either give up or request access to my headphones. It is absolutely infuriating.

And my phone has just done it with my cabled headphones. I plugged them in, and my phone decided (even though I don't think I've ever done this) that I wanted to output audio to my TV. Not the headphones that are physically plugged into the device. So I went to change that and my headphones disappeared as an option. They're physically plugged in! I had to re-plug them to get them to show up. So not only is wireless an unpredictable and unstable mess, but we're forgetting how to do cables now?!

Saturday

04/03/2021

A sleepy dog, some old video games, and a walk around some new routes right next to some old routes.

PBT Notion

04/03/2021

An in-stock keycap set? What is happening?!

Early morning skate

04/03/2021

Got up early and went for a 20km skate along the seafront.

Rollerblading!

03/31/2021

Against my better judgement (and Charlotte's protests), I bought a pair of rollerblades again.

Tabitha is 8

03/31/2021

I can't believe where the time's going.

Beside the seaside

03/31/2021

I've been so bad at this recently. We walk the same laps around the village every day, and see the same things, take the same pictures, and I'm just bored. I'm bored of everything and I don't know how to fix it.

Hannah Montana has no business being as funny as it is.

Saturday walk with the kid

03/06/2021

Tabitha and I went for a walk whilst Charlotte was at the allotment. Was a super nice day, and great to spend some time alone with her. We saw a Triangulation Station, some birds, cows and half a zebra.

Spider-Man Miles Morales

02/21/2021

I right-place-right-timed my way to a PS5 this week. It's the first time in ages that I haven't picked up a console I wanted on launch day.

I wasn't rushing to get one because there wasn't a launch title that I was drawn to, but that turned out to be wrong.

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