• My Git Notes

    Posted on 14 December 2022

    This blog post is a personal reference in that I wanted to document the Git commands I use the most now that I use the command line more and more. I am publishing it as a blog post so that I can refer back to it quickly and easily. It... [Read More]
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  • Mastodon

    Posted on 30 October 2022

    If you use Twitter and are seeing this blog post then there is a good chance you know that Mastodon is an alternative social network which is similar to Twitter but with enough differences to make it seem odd. [Read More]
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  • NixOS, Phoenix and Sass

    Posted on 27 July 2022

    Elixir’s web application framework, Phoenix, is moving away from needing a dependency on Node to make projects easier to maintain and thing in general just a bit simpler. The most recent step towards this was the release of a Tailwind Elixir library which installs and runs a standalone copy of... [Read More]
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  • My Linux Life

    Posted on 22 May 2022

    After I wrote about my love of StarLabs’s 11” laptop, the StarLite, someone asked me about the software I run on it, how I work with people who use Windows and macOS and whether things like using a laptop with 8GB of RAM is a problem. It all seems like... [Read More]
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  • The StarLite Laptop

    Posted on 19 May 2022

    I do pretty much all of my development work on my desktop computer but I still need a laptop for those times I just want to work from the sofa or for when I am travelling. It doesn’t need to be massively powerful or have a great spec but I... [Read More]
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  • Weight and Health

    Posted on 13 September 2020

    In four months I turn 48. I am 5’8” (173 cm) and weight 15st 10lb (100kg). I am unfit and have a very sedentary lifestyle because I work from home as a software developer and spend most of my days sitting at a desk. My BMI is 33.4 when it... [Read More]

  • Unchaining Data

    Posted on 27 August 2020

    Plain text files are very portable. There is no tie-in to any particular editor or application or even operating system. The problem is that most documents we create are not stored as plain text and so our data is chained up and restricted to where and how it can be... [Read More]
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