Posted in Development on March 13, 2025
I have been waiting sooo long to write this post. After two decades with the same CMS, I've made the switch away from WordPress. When I started using it, WordPress was just out of beta. Facebook was
Posted in Development on October 9, 2024
If I'm using Cursor to help me scaffold out a new app, it sometimes creates Laravel migration files with the filename xxxx_xx_xx-migration-description, which is annoying, to say the least. It does
Posted in Featured, Development on September 26, 2024
I recently struggled to get my Laravel 11 app to send messages to a Slack notification channel. My first confusion was that the docs refer to making the relevant model class notifiable and sending the
Posted in PKM and Productivity on February 20, 2024
Roam Research's fabulous note taking app (Roam) was my daily PKM driver for a few years. Roam introduces the concept of daily notes for journaling but the real power is the way that it surfaces linked
Posted in Development on September 17, 2020
Note to self In my [[Windows 10 dev environment]] I have a shared folder between the host machine (my laptop) and the guest VM. The ability to create symlinks within the guest is disabled by default
Posted in Featured, PKM and Productivity on July 18, 2019
A snippet from my OneNote based Trusted System I have a sieve for a brain. I can forget things easily. Really easily. I blame this on my A.D.D, my general anxiety and some weapons grade hedonism in
Posted in Running on February 9, 2018
As threatened in my end of year review I'm giving the weekly notes format a trial. Admittedly the term 'week notes' is not overly accurate given it's early Feb as I write this but "Notable stuff
Posted in Running on January 30, 2018
Bling / © How Hard Can It Be Events Ltd A bunch of geeks who work in digital and who also like to run will be entering the May the 4th be with you trail race on, erm, May 4th 2018. It will be held on
Posted in Articles, Life Updates on January 17, 2018
Welcome to my third retrospective in four years. I didn't bother writing one of these for 2015 as I was glad to see the back of the year, but in hindsight I regret not doing so as it was a formative
Posted in Running on September 5, 2017
Flappy bottles, empty & full side by side Hello and welcome to autumn. As I said last week, to gain some writing momentum I'm going to simply share what I've learnt the previous week as well as