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...
I just went for my first run in like 2 years. I didn’t die, and my knee seems to have held up well. We’ll see what’s sore tomorrow morning… 😂
My Git commit messages are always descriptive. 🫣
(I apologise for giving all the developers out there a seizure).
I nipped out on one of the bikes earlier for coffee with friends. I just finished mowing one of the fields, and the paths in the other field. Now I'm cleaning my fish tank out and listening to a 90's "smash hits" playlist.
I have zero regrets for listening to such a playlist. This is what Sundays were made for. ❤️
Flailing About With My Mower
Back in May I wrote about an evening stroll in the field and leaving the grass to grow. Since then, things have escalated...A LOT.
There's me, resizing and reformatting all my images like some kind of caveman, when all it needed was 4 lines of code in a @getkirby blueprint to automate the whole thing. 🤦♂️
create:
width: 1200
crop: false
format: webp
Traffic is terrible round here...
Keenan’s “Alarmingly Concise” Summary of How They Built Their Site
Keenan goes into great detail on the trials and tribulations of building a new Eleventy site while possessing very little development experience.
As a "senior leader" I make decisions all day, every day. That's my job. But do you know what my hardest daily decision is?
It's whether or not to go for a piss before I go to sleep. Do I get out of my nice warm bed now and do my "final wee", or do I stay comfy and run the gauntlet of potentially needing a piss in the night?
I ran the gauntlet last night, folks, and now I'm tired thanks to -- you guessed it -- needing a piss around 3am. 😂
Getting old is shit.
I've been looking at #analytics providers, and I don't get why they limit on pageview numbers. It's so arbitrary.
Like, it's double the price for the difference between 10k and 100k visits, but we're actually just talking about a couple more MB of data in a database somewhere.
It's bollocks. Why can't there be a provider that's like "yeah, it's $5/m for whatever visits you get. It's all the same to us."
(there may be a such a provider, but I'm not aware of them)
I think this is the first time in the history of my site that I've been truly happy with how it all looks and works. I'm so proud of the design, and Kirby is just glorious to use. It's completely customised to my needs, from the ground up.
Why Have a Personal Site Instead of Social Media?
I was posting my usual waffle over on Fosstodon yesterday, and someone asked a question about having a personal site vs just using social media. So I naturally decided to write a post on my personal site about it.
Me: Oh, I have a spare half hour, I think I'll put the XBox on and play some COD.
XBox: No, no, no, sunshine. You haven't turned me on for months so you have to do these 3 updates first...
Me: 🤦♂️
New homepage, who dis?
The Forgetting Moon
The first book in the Five Warrior Angels series. A very good read, but it was loooong.
There’s a lot to be said for a 6am walk in the field with the dogs (the cat came too) and a cup of coffee.
Everything is so quiet at that time; just the sounds of various animals doing their thing. Birds, sheep, cows, chickens.
Bliss.
Fighting Bots
Manu talks about the ongoing issues with AI scraping the web and what are options are, as site owners, to prevent it.
Ooooooooo new #watch day is always fun. This is my new #Spinnaker Spence that I got for an absolute steal from the Spinnaker site. Can't decide if I prefer the bracelet or the blue leather strap though?
Did Switching to an EV Save Me Money?
Back in February, I switched from a dinosaur drinking Land Rover, to an EV. But has switching actually saved me money?
Less Blogging About Blogging
Brandon talks about his desire to write less about blogging. I'm not sure I agree though.