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While watching the implosion of Twitter in real-time over the past week, I noticed more and more people in my Twitter feed sharing links to their Mastodon accounts.

User comments and discussions on the internet have a pretty bad rep these days, to the point where many people have just opted out of online commentary completely, going as far as using a combination of DNS filtering and browser extensions to remove them…

If you find, as I do, the act of physically marking books indescribably (in the literal sense) disrespectful (to the physical book), you probably felt great the first time you realised that PDFs could be digitally annotated.

I don't think I'm alone in having consumed more documentaries on cults between the years of 2020 and 2022 than I had ever before in my entire life.

I am the only deaf person in my family.

It was during the shutdowns of 2020 that I became increasingly frustrated with my Intel MacBook pro.

Since my last post back in June, I have been steadily eating at a surplus while focusing my training on powerlifting.

Some time around early May I decided to change up my eating habits.

After switching from an iPhone to an Android device at the end of last year, my content consumption workflow changed significantly.

Background Just over a month ago I decided to start learning Italian.

When I started learning languages in my late teenage years, I began with French and Persian.

At the beginning of 2016 I was overweight.

When I initially set a goal for myself, nine times out of ten it will be abstract and unmeasurable; not particularly useful in the long run, but enough to get me moving in the right direction.

I imagine that summer vacations from school comprised formative periods for many people across the world.

I spent much of the first half of the this month plugging away at what was my first sizeable piece of technical writing, my previous post on using Terraform to set up a new Hugo website on AWS.

Background Static generated blogs have seen a surge in popularity over the past few years, as a more cost effective and scalable alternative to traditional publishing platforms such as WordPress.

Over the weekend it was decided that this year's wedding anniversary would be celebrated somewhere in Italy.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable is a saying that I hear a lot when I'm around tech people, and particularly non-technical people working in tech.

This year one of my goals is to improve my writing skills, and one of the ways I'm working towards that goal is to make sure I write something every day.

At some point over the last two weeks I came across a subreddit about 'non zero days'.

Working in the technology sector as a consultant means that I sometimes find myself working with public figures in the tech community.

I remember content consumption being quite a simple process before I owned a smartphone.

Since the start of the year I've been trying to make a concerted effort to write more.

The past month has seen me think a lot about portability in development teams and across environments.

I went through a period last year where I was listening to a lot of podcasts on the Nerdist network.

Making time is getting harder as the years stack up.