Mechanical Pencils

With the news that Pebble is coming back I dug out my Pebble Steel to see if it still worked. After fiddling around with the terrible charging cable, getting stuck in a loop for a while, it finally booted and I was able to set the watch face to the Relay one I made a decade ago. Sadly when I disconnect the charger, it turns off. I guess it needs...

I have a Pixelfed account. I don't post much, but it's there. I like having a dedicated place to post photos. I like seeing other people's photos. Let me start by saying that Dan, the maintainer of Pixelfed, has always been very helpful when I've asked him about various ActivityPub-related things. He knows his shit when it comes to the AP spec....

I was tagged by Kyle and B to do this so here it is. Why Did You Start Blogging In The First Place? Initially I thought I'd be some hot take blogger getting posts retweeted by loads of people and be popular or something. We all wanted to be Gruber back then. More recently I'm blogging for me. It's recipes, technical posts, things I've solved,...

This is the first in a new series of posts to populate my /now page with a blog post. A moment in time. What I'm doing now. A record of what I was doing. Thanks to Nic this was really easy to do because I could copy what he does: Tag a post with the Now Get the latest post tagged as such Use that content on my /now page I'm on paternity leave for...

A couple of weeks ago Chris said this about slash pages: I think it makes more sense to me to write about what I carry around right now and if I did it again later, it doesn’t have to replace what I’ve written before Slash Pages is a site I maintain that is a "guide to common pages you can add to your website". So /uses, /now, and so on. Chris'...