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Another attempt at a privacy-focused, simplified search engine, with some interesting filter options – called "optics" – which let you customise your results. Only want to search personal sites? …

The Component Kitchen is a sort of app store for web components; a digital directory of useful packages, recipes, and one-shots that can be imported into your …

I can never remember what the differences are between noopener, noreferrer, and nofollow, or when best to use them, so here's a handy guide that covers pretty much all of the …

... otherwise known as the Great Vulture Failure of 2020 …

I find the whole Australian link tax to be silly and a rare instance where I'm very much on the side of Big Tech, but Thomas has done a much better job of explaining why it's all a farce than I …

A look at the largely manual workflow I've used to convert my physical music collection into a digital data archive.

An interesting overview of the history of note-taking, specifically as it relates to the concept of a commonplace book and the myriad related forms, including the most recent idea of a …

As far as years go, 2021 held some pretty big surprises and featured some fairly grown-up decisions. Life will never be the same again...

With half the year now firmly in the past, how are my 2022 goals coming along?

A quick (and dirty) way to fetch local data from a JSON file and modify the look of a page in Astro, completely natively.

There's nothing too exceptional about this video from Tom Scott. I've seen similar arguments made before – I've made them myself – but I think Tom does a very good job of outlining my precise …

The bulk of the article is about a kind of pseudo-scraper for populating links and references whilst writing a blog post or article. But the broader conversation piece here is whether linking in an …

I think automatically pumping every article saved to Readwise through an LLM is a bad idea. Luckily, you can turn that feature off!

2023 was another BIG year in terms of, well, everything. We travelled all over the world. We attended scores of major events. And we got married. It's taken a while to write up, as a result!

Perhaps the definition of a "lolsob" micro-essay on the state of the internet in …

Astro and Netlify largely play well together, but I've found a few aspects of redirects and URL design that contain the odd foot-gun I had to work around.

A look back over 2024, a year dominated by travel and friends ‒ and, particularly, travel WITH friends!

Somehow, I've been writing these little blurbs for an entire decade now. What better time to take a look back at how this site has evolved.