In which someone you've never heard of writes about things you have no interest in
[I really don t consider myself a political pundit, but a few (ok, two) people have asked for my opinion on this, so I thought it was worth writing something.] Keir Starmer may be the first British Prime Minister to resign because he was better at governing than he was at politics. When Keir Starmer resigned [ ] The post Why Did Keir Starmer Resign? appeared first on Davblog .
Someone asked me on LinkedIn recently how to cross-post blog content from a GitHub Pages site to places like Medium, dev.to and LinkedIn. I started writing a quick reply and, as often happens, it turned into something longer. So here’s the slightly more organised version. Two different problems There are actually two separate things people [ ] The post How I Cross-Post Blog Articles (Without…
I got a piece of spam the other day. That’s not unusual, of course. What was unusual was that this one was… good. Or at least, it was convincingly good. Here’s what I received: Hi Dave, Just a few outbound idea I wanted to share for targeting modern Perl programmers : Reach out to senior [ ] The post Use Your Powers Only for Good, Clark appeared first on Davblog .
The Diary of Sir Peregrine Blatherwick, MP for Little Wittering(Private. Not for publication, lest my constituents discover what we actually do all day.) February 20th, 1751To Westminster, where we are once again engaged in the great business of the nation, which is to say, arguing about something no one understands but everyone has strong opinions [ ] The post An Interesting Note Concerning…
(excerpts from a private diary recovered on a cracked iPhone, case stickered with glitter stars and a faded tour laminate) 2 January 2026 I promised myself I’d start writing again. Not “journalling”, because that sounds like oat milk and linen trousers. Just… writing things down. A place to put the noise. I’m in a hotel [ ] The post Notes App, Locked appeared first on Davblog .
How to make work optional long before you reach pension age. I saw a post on Reddit the other day from someone in their early thirties who’d just done the maths. They weren’t upset about a specific number on a spreadsheet. They were upset about what that number meant: if nothing changes, they’re looking at [ ] The post Retirement isn’t a date, it’s a dial appeared first on Davblog .
(With apologies to Hal Draper) By the time the Office of Epistemic Hygiene was created, nobody actually read anything. This was not, the Ministry constantly insisted, because people had become lazy. It was because they had become efficient. Why spend six months wading through archaic prose about, say, photosynthesis, when you could simply ask the [ ] The post MS Fnd in a Modl (or, The Day the…
I ve liked Radiohead for a long time. I think High and Dry was the first song of theirs I heard (it was on heavy rotation on the much-missed GLR). That was released in 1995. I ve seen them live once before. It was the King of Limbs tour in October 2012. The show was at the [ ] The post A Radiohead story appeared first on Davblog .
A few days ago, I looked at an unused domain I owned — balham.org — and thought: There must be a way to make this useful… and maybe even make it pay for itself. So I set myself a challenge: one day to build something genuinely useful. A site that served a real audience (people [ ] The post Building a website in a day — with help from ChatGPT appeared first on Davblog .
I built and launched a new website yesterday. It wasn t what I planned to do, but the idea popped into my head while I was drinking my morning coffee on Clapham Common and it seemed to be the kind of thing I could complete in a day so I decided to put my original [ ] The post How I build websites in 2025 appeared first on Davblog .