felix waller

My partner is screaming.

It's been days since an excitingly laptop-shaped parcel arrived at my door and I've already performed the biggest redesign of this website in months.

feel indulgent.

preamble My theme for this year is completion.

Twelve tracks spanning eight years Listen online or download.

For a 30-minute B-movie this is hilariously good.

Would you look at the time?

I was doing some standard server maintenance, updating packages et cetera, this morning and thought nothing of seeing an SSH update.

Back in March I declared that I was going to learn to play the trumpet this year.

To whom it concerns, STOP FUCKING WITH MY FONT SIZE Frustrated reader ~~~ Despite a familial tendency towards needing glasses, nothing like poor sight or dyslexia affects my reading ability.

Wondrous.

caught me by surprise.

is a Baroque opera by Handel, presenting the life of Bacchus' mother and maid in Jove's household, Semele.

The Ministry of Time is a fun sci-fi romance that I enjoyed most for its depictions of loving friends.

This is an eye-opening read as a newcomer to the world of work.

This is an article I wrote for my school's yearly magazine back in 2021, painstakingly transcribed for you.

The Phoenix Project comes heavily recommended by my colleagues and is a fun, if preachy, look at what the tech sector can learn from manufacturing.

has been advertised as the most talked of show of 2025 and that's for good reason.

I was working on an update to the Monument to Stupidity, adding a moderation system to stem the slow ebb of spam, and time came to update the deployed system.

To my ever-wonderful partner.

I leave few footprints.

This weekend I rented a cloud server from Hetzner for about a fiver a month.

This was my first ever visit to Kew Gardens' annual orchid festival, despite being a (semi) regular at the gardens.

Julia is a wonderful retelling of George Orwell's 1984.

My partner is currently working towards a BA in music.

Picture the scene: it's just turned 2025 and you've noticed that you've graduated from university, you're four months deep into your first career and you're moving away from your family home of twelve years in just over a day.

minimal notes for minimal people try it out · read the code I take short-form notes all the time.

I've been working on a website called Cassettes: a music player with a twist (I'll pop a link here when I release it).

I care about writing good, correct code so when tools like Prettier refuse to output spec-compliant code, I get quite annoyed.

I'm on a train from London to Manchester.

So we've had 2 months of 2024 already.

Wikipedia lists the pronunciation of "et cetera" and "etc."

Next up in my series of things I need to know but always forget is the difference between JavaScript's Element.innerText and Node.textContent.

Not that 2023 wasn't good – I actually had a whale of a time.

As noted in my thought New-New-New-Blog, this is the third incarnation of my blog / portfolio space and I've never been more pleased with it.

I've never fully understood the difference between the :where and :is CSS selectors so, in the spirit of a random article I read online, I'm sharing my discovery here.

Glowing compliments for daily achievements Try it out · Read the code Why Sometimes I find myself overwhelmed by responsibilities.

A new music notation system for digital composition with string instruments Try it out Why When music producers write string music, they use the piano roll editor that comes standard with all digital audio workstations (DAWs).

I like crosswords.

Whew.