Posts in “Technology”

I’ve Been Thinking About a Switch to the Fairphone 5

I've recently been thinking about a switch to the Fairphone 5, but after some research, I'm not sure it's worth it?

📅 26 November 2024

Repairing My Sony Ear Buds

A couple days ago I wrote about how my Sony ear buds were dead and how I was on the hunt for a replacement pair. I ended up replacing the batteries instead, but did it work?

📅 19 November 2024

My Sony Ear Buds Are Dead

Two and a half years ago, almost to the day, I bought my Sony WF-1000XM4 ear buds, but now they won't hold a charge, so I'm on the hunt for new ones.

📅 17 November 2024

Building a Simple Journal

I saw a post from Will recently about the CLI journalling tool, jrnl. It looked cool, but had some limitations for my needs, so I decided to build my own.

📅 19 August 2024

Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air

I've had my M1 MacBook Air for 3 years now. It's the most expensive laptop I've ever owned, but was it worth it?

📅 30 July 2024

Thinking About Online Communities

I've been thinking about online communities a lot lately, and had an idea about a new Masto instance, but maybe it wasn't such a good idea?

📅 23 July 2024

My Knee-Jerk Reaction to WWDC24

I watched the #WWDC24 event from Apple last night. Here’s my thoughts on some of the announcements.

📅 11 June 2024

We Already Have a Digital Currency

Bitcoin and their ilk really aren't my thing, but many talk about the need for a digital currency. But here's the thing - we already have one, don't we?

📅 29 May 2024

My Computing History

I read a post from Robb Knight recently about his computing origin story. It was an interesting post, so I thought I'd add my own computing history to the mix.

📅 13 May 2024

Cross-Posting with EchoFeed

I've been cross-posting using a self-hosted EchoFeed instance for a while, but now Robb has built a managed version, I flipped to that and it's brilliant.

📅 19 April 2024