We had a Hotpoint engineer come out to repair our washing machine yesterday. While replacing the machine, he forgot to connect the waste pipe and we came down to this mess this morning. 😡
The amount of AI generated sales emails I get these days is astonishing.
If you can't be arsed to write your own sales pitch, why the fuck should I be arsed about your product?
Why is Pure Blog so ugly?
Someone recently told me that they won't use Pure Blog because it's too ugly. I'm here to show you that's not true.
Out for coffee this morning with my wife, as is our Wednesday morning routine, and this little guy came to sit with us.
First fire of the year and Sid is loving it.
Not sure we appreciated the giant queen wasp that came bumbling out of the chimney though.
My Hobby Is Learning
After a string of hobbies through my life, I recently realised that my actual hobby is learning.
Been trying a new email client, Hylki, after reading about it on OMG! Ubuntu! Really enjoying it. It's modern and has a tonne of features.
Would You Like to Write to Me?
I love writing (with a pen). If you do too, would you like to write to me?
Privacy and Webmentions
Are Webmentions bad from a privacy perspective? I'm not so sure.
Took the dogs out on the field this morning. All the dewey spider webs were beautiful in the morning sun.
I'm no Jack Baty, but they're good enough.
I Don’t Remember the Last Time I Checked Mastodon
I post and reply from my website these days, so I actually need a Mastodon account?
This site is the most fun I've had in a while. Destroy any website!
One Year
It's been a year since my little sister, Lisa, took her own life and it's still awful every single day.
I think it's time... #Ubuntu
Soooooo Hacker News happened. 🤣
I Switched to Brave Browser
I've been using Brave for a couple months now after using Firefox for around 25 years. I think Brave will be a permanent change.
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
The third book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. This one really confused me.
How I Develop Pure Commons Apps
A couple of people have asked, so here's my process for developing the Pure apps.
Eight years, and done
A departure post from Bryce where he talk about his exit from blogging and his motivations for doing so.
Got home around midnight. I have concussion and a couple stitches in my head, but nothing serious. Few other cuts and bruises too.
By far the worst part is my back though - it's in spasm and REALLY painful.