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Deploying blog posts straight from my phone
How I write and publish blog posts and notes on my phone, and deploy them straight to my website. No computer needed
Pokédex 2.0
Revisiting my Pokémon Living Dex challenge
Blog
Somewhat structured thoughts
2026 (3)
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Adding a next event widget
I’ve added a widget to the dashboard to show the next event I’m attending
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Hey, it’s been a while
I’ve been off-grid for a bit, but now I’m back
2025 (4)
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A crisis of consoles
I’m not sure what my future of games console ownership looks like
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Only I could go to a gig and leave with coffee beans
Took a first class train to a hardcore gig, bought some coffee beans, left
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oh no, I’ve started a Pokémon living dex
I’m setting out on an adventure to catch every Pokémon
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I’ve become really old
A noticeable tipping point on my 32nd birthday
2024 (28)
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Anything but the big light
I’ve realised how far I’ll go to avoid using the big light
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I was very brave today
I just gave up my 936 day Duolingo streak
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Generating frontmatter with Apple Shortcuts
I created a shortcut that generates frontmatter for my Eleventy blog posts
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Shortcut for creating a new blog post
I created a shortcut that generates a blog post template in Bear notes
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A genuine moment of joy
I climbed on some rocks this weekend, and I loved it
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Weeknotes 33
A weekend in Bath and some home office redecoration
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What the heck do I do with all these stickers?
I've finally found a solution to display all of my stickers
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Link dump - July 2024
A collection of fun things I’ve found this month
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Link dump - June 2024
A collection of fun things I've found this month
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I went to my first ever gig
I went to see 30 Seconds to Mars, my first ever gig, at the ripe old age of 31
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I’ve finally found a comic series to collect!
I’ve just started collecting Ultimate X-Men
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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit: A (sort of) review
I started playing through Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remaster, and I’m having a blast
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Link dump - May 2024
A collection of fun things I've found this month
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Run a Shortcut from a URL
How to run an Apple Shortcut from a URL
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Building a shortcut to automate link dumps
I created a Shortcut that made writing collecting links for link dumps a bit easier
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Designing a Banner component
Designing a banner component to nudge Members to fill in their emergency contact details
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MSO SLR HDK OMG WTF
The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, and a rather wild one-off take on it
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Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale 'Cornes Edition'
One of my childhood poster cars, in a very special Challenge Stradale
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The Ferrari of Theseus
The Ship of Theseus thought experiment, applied to a Ferrari
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If an Aperol Spritz was a car
The Fiat 500: a strong contender for the cutest car ever made
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The Swedish JDM
Koenigsegg's Agera and its Japanese-inspired roots
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WeblogPoMo2024
My plan to get into a rhythm of publishing: a month of blogging about cars
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Launching Hotdesk
We launched Hotdesk, our design system, with a new modal, a password input and design tokens
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Longing for nostalgia
Wishing I'd played and watched things as a kid so I could feel nostalgic about them now
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My introduction to Super Mario
I grew up on Pokémon, so Super Mario was a late discovery
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I like cars
A lifelong love of cars, starting with HotWheels aisles in Sainsbury's
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Launching website 3.0!
A complete redesign of my personal website, in traditional January fashion
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Using ambient sounds to improve my focus
How ambient sounds help me concentrate when my attention is all over the place
2023 (10)
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Subscriptions I’m taking into 2024
The apps and services I'm still paying for going into 2024
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Next year I’ll be organised with gift giving
The workflow I've finally set up so I'm not panic-buying gifts next Christmas
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Website 2.0
Website 2.0 is here, rebuilt in Framer after six months of tinkering
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Combining analogue and digital memories with QR codes
How to link private iCloud photo albums to a QR code using Shortcuts, for my mum's scrapbooks
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Creating a Shortcut to catalogue nice wines
A Shortcut that logs the details of nice wines into Bear so I can remember them
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Designing a detailed checkbox component
How I designed a checkbox component with descriptions for choosing user roles
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February 2023 - Changelog
What I changed on my website in February 2023
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Making labels pop with indicators
Designing status labels for our component library, and adding indicators to make them stand out
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January 2023 - Changelog
What I changed on my website in January 2023, my first full month using Framer
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New year, new website
Launching my new site as a work-in-progress to break the yearly redesign cycle
2021 (7)
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Sweet and Sour Tempeh
A vegan sweet and sour tempeh recipe, adapted from Avant-Garde Vegan, that finally won me over to sweet and sour
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When was the last time you really immersed yourself in what you were doing?
Cooking dinner made me realise how rarely I'm properly absorbed in what I'm doing
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February 2021
A tough month for motivation, plus my first full month with a standing desk
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Januar 2021 Lebensupdate
Ein chaotischer Start ins Jahr 2021 und mein Umzug von München zurück nach Großbritannien (auf Deutsch)
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January 2021 Life update
A hectic start to 2021, and how I ended up moving from Munich back to the UK
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Ein Ausblick auf 2021
Mein erster Blogpost: wer ich bin, warum ich blogge und worauf ich mich 2021 freue (auf Deutsch)
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Looking Forward to 2021
My first ever blog post: who I am, why I'm starting a blog, and what I'm looking forward to in 2021