Declan Byrd's Personal Site

In my 2024 to-do list I noted that I never introduce myself on my own website.

I had an email from IFTT this week that warned me that the webhook service that my Mastodon bot is using will be shut down by the 22nd February unless I switched to a paid plan.

I was supposed to have a basketball game this week for Worthing D&D White against East Grinstead Flyers but the game was cancelled.

On Monday, I had a basketball session in the evening.

On Monday, I was at the American Express stadium to watch Brighton draw 0-0 against Wolves.

On Tuesday, I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White against Brighton Cougars.

What is this?

This was my first five day working week since the end of November.

Reading I finished 26 books in 2023.

To celebrate my birthday, I went out for brunch to Oeuf café in Hove with my family.

The week started with Christmas day, which was very busy but it was nice to spend time with all the family.

On Tuesday, I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White against Worthing D&D Black.

This week was my last working week of the year.

I had a short work week this week, only working from Monday through to Wednesday.

The 48th week of 2023, and the notes that I wrote for that week have provided a landmark moment.

On Tuesday, I played in Worthing D&D White's defeat to East Grinstead Flyers.

I was back to working a normal five day week this week.

I had another shorter working week, working only four days.

Not a lengthy set of notes this week.

Wednesday was a busy day.

The NBA season started this week.

On Monday, I had my first basketball game of the season.

I was off work again this week, instead spending the working week in Antwerp (Belgium).

I had one basketball session this week.

I had two basketball sessions this week.

I had a good basketball session this week.

Arrived for the first game of the 2023/24 Brighton and Hove Albion European tour.

Most of my spare time this week was spent working on my micropub/custom content management application.

It's great that I can spend weeks building something that I think will help me to post more often to my website.

I had a frustrating basketball session this week.

The week started with a bank holiday, so Becka and I took advantage of the long weekend by spending the day in Brighton.

I was in Tallinn for most of this week to work in-person with the rest of the team.

I was back playing basketball this week, participating in two sessions.

I'm feeling much better at the time of writing these notes than compared to last week.

Content warning: Covid I managed to complete one basketball session this week.

Another two basketball sessions this week.

I had two basketball sessions again this week.

School sports halls are no longer being used for exams, so I was back playing basketball this week.

I previously wrote about how I used VS code snippets in a markdown file to auto-fill some YAML frontmatter when I wanted to add some notes for a book I had finished reading.

I started playing Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales on the PS5 this week.

I was on the PlayStation for most evening during the week.

I had a day off work on Monday this week as Juneteenth is a company holiday.

I got angry at Gran Turismo 7.

I was back at work this week after having last week off.

This week I was on holiday in San Sebastián.

A shorter set of notes this week, only covering Monday to Friday.

I've been playing a lot of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom this week.

I started this week with a run.

I discovered Frumpets (French toast battered crumpets) this week.

This week, I got to fly out to Tallinn to meet my work colleagues in-person for the first time.