The one thing necessary

I had a few free hours recently and decided to have a go at a long-simmering idea: To improve how I manage multiple email accounts.

One huge and welcome change in the last decade or so for Web development is that secure connections are ubiquitous.

My last post was my first in a long time and I’d forgotten how hard they are to write.

Almost three years ago, deep in the pandemic, my kids got me my first Raspberry Pi.

For the past six weeks or so I’ve been playing around with home automation.

A year ago, I was told to vacate the office and start working from home.

I’ve been volunteering for a couple of years with the Jesuit Refugee Service, which aims to support refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.

I’m fortunate to work for a team that gives its developers time to play – a day, every other week, that we can use to learn about or try something new.

The extended family members are getting together again tonight, on the usual unwieldy, international Zoom conference with too many people on it.

At my work, we are advocates of pair programming.

It’s now been a few weeks since many of us in the U.K. have gone into lockdown.

I took a few minutes last night to add a small feature to Emacs, saving me from some repetitive steps when I’m starting a blog post (like this one).

I’m trying to get one of the charities I work with on Zoom before our next scheduled meeting on Monday.

Here’s a game to while away some of those long evenings in lockdown: Predict how the pandemic will change the world.

On this site, I want URLs like https://my-site.com/my-page/ instead of https://my-site.com/my-page.html.

Reason #1: My immediate family (my kids, my sisters and my parents) have been using videoconferencing to keep in contact regularly.

If I had to put a word on what I’m feeling about all of this, it would be “grief.”

As of today, I’ve joined the hordes told to work from home, for an indefinite and probably lengthy period.

As described in my previous post, I wanted to automate publishing to this site via Github Actions.

I’ve had this domain for a few years, letting Amazon’s Route 53 auto-renew it each year without actually doing anything with it.

This is my own web site.