Posts Tagged "Web"

A New Lick of Paint

So I've been playing around with a new design for this site for a couple of weeks now, and it's finally to the point where I think it's good to go live.

πŸ“… 16 Jul 2025 | πŸ“ Blog post

Doing a Jack Baty...?

I've been thinking about a changing some stuff up around here lately, but I'm on the fence as to what to do. You could say I'm doing a Jack Baty...

πŸ“… 20 Jun 2025 | πŸ“ Blog post

More Journal App Updates

I've been getting more into journaling lately, and as a result, I've continued to improve my little Journal app.

πŸ“… 14 Jun 2025 | πŸ“ Blog post

Goodbye Fosstodon

Last night I demoted my Fosstodon admin account, then flipped the switch and migrated to Micro.blog. Here's some thoughts on why I did that.

πŸ“… 08 May 2025 | πŸ“ Blog post

My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama

Lots of people have been asking myself and Mike for a statement on the recent drama surrounding Fosstodon. This is **MY** statement.

πŸ“… 28 Apr 2025 | πŸ“ Blog post

YouTube Shorts Are Like Crack

Back in February I decided to admit defeat in the battle against YouTube ads, and I signed up for Premium. Since then, I've become utterly addicted to shorts. It's very, very sad.

πŸ“… 04 Apr 2025 | πŸ“ Blog post

Improving My Journal

Back in August I created a very simple Journal for my own use. I've been updating it lately and I think it's a lot better now.

πŸ“… 21 Mar 2025 | πŸ“ Blog post

The Cost of Self-Hosting

Since playing around with Android and trying to get some self-hosted services running, I've been thinking about the costs of self-hosting. Ironically, I think the cost to my wallet is the least of them.

πŸ“… 26 Dec 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

Why I Think Nextcloud Is Shit

I've tried Nextcloud a few times over the years, but every time I do, I end up coming away thinking it's shit. Here's why...

πŸ“… 14 Dec 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

Update on 500 Social

500 Social has been around for a few months now and things are going well. Here’s what’s been happening…

πŸ“… 22 Oct 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

My Thoughts on the WordPress Drama

I wrote about Matt's post the other day, but things have escalated significantly since then. Like, SIGNIFICANTLY. Here's my thoughts...

πŸ“… 26 Sep 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

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.

πŸ“… 19 Aug 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

Politics and Communities

After launching 500 Social to little fanfare yesterday, Jack and Dave have been having an interesting conversation about politics in communities, and I wanted to chime in, since it's focussed on 500 Social.

πŸ“… 28 Jul 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

Introducing 500 Social

I've decided to go for it and start that deliberately small online community I was talking about. It's called 500 Social.

πŸ“… 28 Jul 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

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?

πŸ“… 23 Jul 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

Could You Give Up Social Media?

I have a love hate relationship with social media. In some respects it's great, but in others it's a nightmare. I'm wondering if I could give up social media entirely...

πŸ“… 17 Jul 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

I Stopped Mastodon DDoSing Me (I Think)

I recently wrote about how Mastodon is DDoSing me every time I post a link to this site. I've managed to fix the problem...I think.

πŸ“… 08 May 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

Mastodon Is DDoSing Me

Whenever I, or someone else, posts a link to this blog on Mastodon, it DDoS's me and brings the site down for a couple minutes.

πŸ“… 07 May 2024 | πŸ“ Blog post

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