Hannah's web log

This is how I made my very own Bible reading app because I like using my phone and I hate existing apps.

When I was 8 or 9 years old I *think* I wrote on a piece of paper: (Recreated from memory - the original is lost to a western Sydney classroom, circa 1998).

There's something very honest and raw about the emotion portrayed in the song "Jessie's Girl" that you don't normally hear.

Some covers dare to tackle sacred cows in music and transcend their source material.

Bluesky just released some very nice custom link cards that work with standard.site links.

(Image: Hannah Shelley.

Open access means making research and academic content freely available online for anyone to read, download, and share.

Teresa Berndtsson / Letter Word Text Taxonomy / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 / via Better Images of AI A student requests a meeting and emails me their research topic.

Last year, the Bible Society published a report with a striking claim: the number of young people attending church in England and Wales had quadrupled in just six years.

The question of who gets to call themselves a librarian is far more contentious than it has any right to be.

Every year, like clockwork, someone sees hot cross buns in the supermarket in early January and loses their mind.

I have been thinking too much about Toy Story again.

Yutong Liu & Digit / Digital Nomads: Digital-Based Connection / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 This time last year I started blogging, for pretty much the first time.

I'm a summer person.

Ikigai is a Japanese concept around the "meaning of life" that you've possibly seen represented in popular culture as a diagram of four overlapping circles.

My 2026 new year's resolution (and I'm starting early) is to become someone who reads for fun.

Respecting the balance between 2 equally wrong reviews.

"More than books" is the most worthless cliché in the professional world, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

The algorithm, for once in its cursed existence, worked for someone.

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees.

Boolean searching in neocities?

An angry breakdown of how Toy Story 4 turned Bo Peep into an impostor, assassinated Woody's character, and betrayed the entire franchise's core values.

If any Liberal party strategists ask, this wasn't my idea.

Why don't public libraries unlock their newspaper subscriptions at point of paywall?

Spoiler: it wasn't great.

We are living in a pickle-neglect pipeline, and it's time to speak truth to power.

What makes Labor's historic victory particularly fascinating is how it contradicts an emerging global narrative: the supposed rightward drift of young men, particularly those in Gen Z.

According to a recent Australian study, new data shows Gen Z men are more likely to hold traditional gender beliefs than older men - and far more so than their female peers.

Yes.

I've been reflecting lately on how we teach search strategies - particularly the ubiquitous PICO framework that has become the foundation of evidence-based medicine education.

Because what speaks to our cultural moment better than surreal, algorithmic slop?

A personal story about finding life-changing wisdom in bizarre pop lyrics

A non-preachy reflection on how I blend spirituality and technology

Using PubMed to demonstrate the impact of language censorship

Despite its whimsical surface, Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom offers a sharp satire of British class hierarchies, using fairy tale tropes to expose contradictions in aristocratic power, labour structures, and social mobility.

Every time you abstain from beauty-related labour, you empower yourself, even if it's because you're "too lazy" to keep up with it.

Season 6 of Black Mirror isn't just meta – it's a Russian doll of reality, where characters watch themselves through layers of fiction.