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  • I’m tinkering with a Laravel ActivityPub implementation to replace this blog at some point. At the moment I’m building out the models / interfaces / services and determining a good way to integrate them via landrok/activitypub. The end goal I guess is to create a very basic content platform with types that can optionally be […] »


  • After many years using dark mode, I have started to feel that it has a negative effect on my mood / psychology. I’ve started switching all of my themes (windows, gmail, vscode etc) back to light mode, and I feel that my motivation to use the laptop doesn’t drain as quickly, which I guess is […] »


  • ICQ is ending in June. https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows I only logged in a couple of months ago, to see whether I still could. My ID is (soon to be was) 5028020. I met my first girlfriend through ICQ. Had loads of interesting conversations with random people. The guy from Uzbekistan who chatted to me out of nowhere, […] »


  • Binge-watched TV shows the last few weeks: »


  • I’ve been a fan of My Dying Bride since I first heard Turn Loose the Swans on Triple J’s “Three Hours of Power” show in early 1996. That being said, after their highly praised 1996 album “The Angel and the Dark River” I feel they lost direction somewhat. I did end up grabbing their follow-up […] »


  • I learned to type on an electric typewriter, not a computer keyboard. Consequently I developed a habit of double spacing after each period, as that was normal practice on that medium. A colleague pointed my double spacing out a year or two ago when peer reviewing some code for which I had created some comments. […] »


  • I just finished reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss. It’s a difficult story to classify and that, I think, is part of its charm. »


  • I haven’t taken the camera out too much lately, so here is a bit of street photography while wandering around West End a couple of months ago. »


  • A short note about how I implemented ActivityPub integration into this blog. »


  • I’m testing creating a post from a Mastodon client. »


  • I have decided to start maintaining a blog again. »