Are you fed up of having the outcome of a World Cup match spoiled whilst trying to find the highlights on BBC Sport? I was, so I wrote a Stylus overlay to hide all of the scores, stats, and even the video thumbnail.
What I'm Up To
Hiding BBC Sport World Cup Spoilers
Animating Letters Isn't Easy
The desire to have letters animate into frame on the web has existed for decades, but we still don't have a good mechanism for it ‒ even if some seem to exist.
2025: By The Numbers
A comprehensive review of 2025, through the lens of the data I captured (or had captured about me).
The Ad Hoc 10
To better mark a decade of theAdhocracy being online, I've secretly been chipping away at a whole bunch of additional features, bug fixes, and general improvements.
Updating Astro from cPanel
A quick overview of my process for updating this site, publishing new posts, or releasing code changes, which is all done via cPanel, GitHub, and SSH.
Managing cPanel Node Resources
Node apps/websites have an annoying habit of hoovering up all of the available server resources, and then crashing when there isn't any more. Not ideal, but there are some options for combatting the greed.
GNU
Or how I turned my website into a living memorial to one of the greatest authors to ever live: Terry Pratchett.
An Ad Hoc Decade
Somehow, I've been writing these little blurbs for an entire decade now. What better time to take a look back at how this site has evolved.
Launching Astro from cPanel
A guide on getting Astro up and running as a Node application within a cPanel web host.
Buh-bye Netlify!
Netlify suspended my site, due to a sudden resource spike on a completely separate domain. Now, for the first time in five years, you're reading this on infrastructure that Netlify does not own.
Threemes: One Year On
A look back at how my monthly "threeme" system has been going, what I want to change, and what I managed to mess up as I went along.
2024: The Year of Friends
A look back over 2024, a year dominated by travel and friends ‒ and, particularly, travel WITH friends!