A couple of years ago, I was diagnosed with inattentive-type ADHD. At the time, it felt like it explained so much about me and the things I struggled with. I started medication, and I was hopeful that it would be enough to balance out the issues I wa […]
As always, I'm trying out lots of new bike parts. Some are better than others, so here's some short reviews of the best and worst things I've bought recently: Elitewheels Edge carbon wheels, Goodyear Eagle F1 Supersport R tyres, Sidebike carbon cycling shoes, Exustar PRS-1 pedals, RideNow TPU inner tubes, TOPUMP TB2 PRO electric pump, and YKYWBIKE jerseys & bib tights.
In an effort to resist the urge to be a miserable bastard, here's a list of all of the things I'm grateful for this year in lieu of a regular "Year review"
As part of my move over to Coolify, I've migrated my manual Gitea install to one managed by Docker in Coolify
I've been meaning to try Coolify for ages, as a self-hosted Netlify alternative. A couple of recent discussions prompted me to try it out
I've been experimenting with WebComponents for a distributed component library at work. At first I had issues with making the components do what I wanted them to do, while still being usable. Lit's @queryAssignedElements decorator has made that significantly easier
Just a quick list of some of my favourite films to watch during this, the most spooky of seasons.
As I've mentioned before, I spent the summer raising money for Cyclists Fighting Cancer. This past weekend I did the final event, a 245km hilly ride.
Instead of finding a better Podcast app, I created a little PHP utility server to allow me to filter and rename Podcast (and by extension, RSS) feeds to create playlists.
After abandoning it as my commuter after the winter, my Raleigh touring bike needed a bit of a refresh. Now I've brought it back to life to use for taking my child to school.
I subscribe to some Patreon podcast feeds, which often contain lots of content that I don't want to listen to right now. After trying a few workarounds, I found a tool that lets me filter the feeds and just receive the episodes I care about
Just a few shots from this year s Manchester - Blackpool (and back) ride. There was no finish line photographer last year, so this year was the first time I ve had any photos of me on my bike. It was a great ride, although the rain was pretty bad in […]
I've been using Obsidian for note taking for about a year now, with limited success, but I've recently made some changes to my configuration that have made it wildly more useful to me
I recently started using umami.is for website analytics, and figured I could use the API to output some stats about my blog
After never really wanting to spend the extra money, I finally replaced my stock Continental Ultra Sport III tyres with Continental Grand Prix 5000, and I was blown away.
You can prevent Perplexity from summarising a page with a simple prompt injection
Sometimes I think I can be quite clever. This is not one of those times.
No, I m not talking about all computers[1]. Specifically, I m talking about Slack. I m pretty terrible at maintaining that work/life boundary when Slack is involved. I usually keep it installed on my phone so that I can respond to messages during the […]
I went for a trial ride with a local cycling club yesterday, after pretty much exclusively riding alone for the last two years
A quick look back at WeblogPoMo2024 on the last day
Here's a list of my favourite video games
One of the side effects of moving house has been that I'm now going to be working from home after being in a coworking space for the last two years
Since buying a new handheld emulator this year, I ve been hunting for some fun games to play. I ve got a library of just about every Game Boy/Colour[1]/Advance game that was released in the original run, but that means a lot of low-quality games with […]
Inspired by the release of slashpages.net, I've added a couple to my blog
I'm in the process of planning a rebuild of my Raleigh Randonneur touring bike, so here's my initial plan for what I'll be doing with it
“A quick thanks to the kind stranger in the supermarket this morning”
It's Saturday, so let's a break from Golang to hear a rundown of my 5 favourite albums
Nesting templates, serving static files, and some unexpected (to me) behaviour with request matching
Being just past the halfway mark now, a quick retrospective on how WeblogPoMo is going
Creating some basic HTML output, and bundling static files
A quick one today on improving the data that's output
Now it's time to actually try and send a "ping" to a website
Just some thoughts about finishing the Macclesfield Bikeathon yesterday
More databases, enums, and all that sort of fun stuff.
Time to start getting myself connected to a database and write a bit of data
There's no Day 9 for my Learning Go series, as I moved house over the weekend and it was chaotic.
Getting the project deployed via Gitea actions
Kicking off the project by starting to build out an HTTP server
It's finally time to decide on what project I'm going to build this month
For Day Five, I'm going to look at how to write tests
Day Four brings the joys of arrays and structs
For my third day of learning Go, I'm going to take a look at some control structures
In part two, I take a look at how to organise code into packages
I've wanted to try learning Go for a while now, but have never got round to it. So I'm going to (attempt) to learn a little bit about it each day, and blog about it, with a view to building something with it by the end of the month.
Once again unable to say no to a commitment, I've signed up to WeblogPoMo 2024, in which I post something to my blog every day for the month of May
How to automatically purge certain files from the Bunny.net cache after deploying my Eleventy blog
Because I have a problem, in the last few weeks I've bought not one, but two, new bikes
It's CSS Naked Day, so to celebrate I've stripped all of the CSS from my blog.
A little over 4 months ago, I posted about some low cost shifters that I bought - the Sensah Team Pros from AliExpress. In the interim, I ve also bought a few other cheaper parts from AliExpress in an effort to keep maintenance costs down. Particular […]
I decided to start using Robb Knight's Echo tool to syndicate my blog posts to Mastodon, and trigger Webmentions.