Notes (665 notes)
2026
- TIL: Wise Interest is switching to monthly· Few things mess with accountants more than quietly changing numbers.
- TIL: Viewing completed tasks in Todoist· Todoist has an experimental way to support done lists.
- Plausible solutions· Plausible solutions often aren't the good ones.
- TIL: You can add Microsoft Teams meetings to Google Calendar events· How to offer Teams meetings without leaving Google Calendar.
- TIL: Adblocking can stop Minecraft Achievements from working· How to fix a weird issue with Minecraft Bedrock Edition's achievements.
- You probably don't need to run Pi-hole or AdGuard Home· Subscribing to NextDNS for adblocking with no flaky devices.
- Writing software may be cheaper but owning it is still expensive· Not everything needs to be yours.
- TIL: Fredkin's paradox· Choosing between similar options is hard.
- Tea, Earl Grey, Meaty· Falling down a Codex rabbithole.
2025
- TIL: Google Workspace charges for suspended users· The right way to suspend Google Workspace users.
2024
- Collections· Fixing up an Astro blog with ChatGPT's help.
- Freelancing and contracting in the UK· Some work-in-progress notes on freelancing.
- Bye, bye, Netlify· Netlify's billing approach is potentially scary.
- Weeknotes: week 16· Last week was midterm break. We went to London and did family things: trips to museums, eating out, ambling around. I avoided doing any work meetings,…
- Weeknotes: week 14· Last week, I decided to just go for one goal and compile and structure my notes from a proposal. There was more than I thought to this because research is…
- Blogging again· How many times have I written this post over the last 25 years?
- Weeknotes: week 13· Better late than never.
- Weeknotes: week 12 prep· Week 2 of going for some accountability. This week, I’m planning to do these three things:
- Weeknotes: week 11· This is my first attempt at getting back on the weeknotes bandwagon and doing some accountability, after some pondering in Weeknotes debug.
- We had to add it to the tab· Evocative, homegrown reels.
- Weeknotes debug· I love the idea of weeknotes (honestly, I do) but I have always struggled with actually doing them, even more so now than when I first tried doing them…
- Tiny Witch Hunter· How my 10 year old son is discovering new music.
2023
- Brand New· A great resource for anyone interested in brand design.
- Weeknotes: week 2· It’s always the same during a trip: so many bitty tasks build up. I have a project in my todo app called “Bits” where I put any… bits… that I think will…
- Weeknotes: week 1· This is week 1 of writing weeknotes, not doing what I'm doing, or being alive. Let's see how long I can keep this going. The last time I did anything like…