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It’s the end of the year, and I have a bit of a confession to make. I haven’t put as much time as I wanted to towards writing posts for my websites or made many improvements to them over the last year. I’ve been incredibly busy because I bought a house earlier this year 🎉 It’s taken an incredibly long time to get here (10 years, specifically), which involved a lot of planning, saving, and…
Last year, I shared a post about how I got back into cycling and bought my first bike after not owning one for over 10 years. Shortly after that, I ended up buying an electric bike (e-bike, for short), and a year later, I have no regrets about my purchase! Good-quality e-bikes are not cheap. I spent a considerable amount of time researching which e-bike I would purchase. It ended up taking me over…
Last year I debated about getting a new bicycle after 10 years of not owning a bike, but after doing some cycling in Amsterdam while away on sabbatical , I finally bought a bike last summer and it’s been my favourite purchase I’ve made in a while. Why I cycle There are few reasons I’ve started cycling again. The first is just that I just really enjoy cycling. I had a mountain bike growing up but…
This week, Robinhood , a US-based stock trading app, went live in the UK . As someone who is very much interested in investing and having tried out other app-based investment platforms in the past, I thought it would be a good idea to share my thoughts on the platform and if it’s worth using. Funny enough, I had just watched Dumb Money , covering the GameStop sage in 2021 on a flight back from…
In addition to the articles, I’ve decided to add a notes section to the website now. There are times when I wanted to write a short piece about something but it didn’t feel right to put it in the articles section of the website. Sometimes I just want to…note something down. Hence the notes section ! What are notes meant to be? Notes will be short pieces of writing. Most likely a couple of lines…
Note From Feburary 26th 2025, Amazon has removed the ‘Download and Transfer via USB’ option so this guide no longer works I really enjoy reading books on my Kindle. I also buy most of my digital books via Amazon. I never thought about making DRM-free copies of my eBooks until I read about how an engineer had his Amazon account suspended due to a delivery driver’s false claim.…
I took 9 weeks off work. Of those 9 weeks, I spent 8 travelling. This is a summary of how I found my time off and what I did, things I learnt from my first long-term travel trip and my favourite highlights. What is sabbatical leave? A quick 101 - sabbatical leave is an extended period of time away from work. Common reasons for taking sabbatical leave are to pursue interests outside of work; such…
My Hugo website uses the Digital Garden Hugo theme but I’ve made a few changes in addition to using the theme. I’ve listed these changes below both for myself to refer back to and for anyone else who might find these useful to include in their own Hugo website 👇🏽 Updating lastmod text One of the first changes I made was to change the lastmod front matter text that was displayed on…
In the last few months, there has been a flurry of activity around personal blogs and owning your own data , since Musk took the reins of Twitter . With that, a lot of people have been wondering how they can start their own websites. Since re-launching my website, I’ve had people ask me how they can make their own website in the last few weeks. To avoid repeating myself, I’ve put…
Time and time again, we are shown that we cannot rely on third-party platforms to host our content. The internet is constantly changing and with that, the platforms that host our content are constantly in flux. Platforms can fall just as quickly as they can rise, either by just going completely offline or by making drastic changes to how people interact with content on their site/platform. There…