Mike Bell - Blog & Stuff

I’ve had my personal AWS setup for 10 years now and it’s time that it got organised.

It’s about this time of year that marks my first year on the fediverse.

How to easily backup your Home Assistant configuration to an S3 bucket.

This problem has been plaguing me for months now so I thought I’d write down everything I’ve done to try and solve the issue of the 10 minute js file.

I should add thoughts to the site.

I’ve moved to Hugo after probably the shortest time with any site generator.

All my keyboards Time for an update on my keyboard collection!

It’s been over a year since I last blogged, there are a number of reasons: Broken realease pipeline (well not quite but it was messy) I wanted to move everything to docker I hated the way the blog looked A few weeks ago I started to the move to GatsbyJS a…

After upgrading to Windows 10 finally I figured I’d check out what it’s like developing on Windows 10 and to be honest it isn’t that bad.

Sometimes the best way of learning something is to just dive in and start using it.

Hello!

Below is an update I posted to Convivio and my familly whatsapp group.

When I look at my arm I hate it, it doesn’t feel a part of my body, the scars are a constant reminder that I went through a dark time and it’s something that makes me feel angry and ashamed.

One of the things I’ve found quite hard to accept is how awesome my support network has been over the past few months.

After this post I figured I should write more since I’ve always found it cathartic.

I’ve always tried to be open and public about my dealings with mental health which is why this post is probably the hardest I’ve ever written.

After a recent trip to St Ives and the wonderful Mount Zion coffee I’ve decided to step up my game and buy some new toys for the kitchen.

I’ve got quite an expensive hobby at the moment - keyboards.

I’ve known about TMUX for a few years now but never got around to checking it out.

I have this memory of when I was young, we used to go camping in something called a Dandy, one day I remember my dad making sketches on a scrap bit of paper, I was young I didn’t really understand what they were but he seemed quite excited at it.

This post is a follow up on: Why is admitting I can’t do something the hardest part of my job?

Like most conversations do it starts with a “Hey, how are you?”.

I’ve not missed you not at all.

Around the 9th of September 2015 we set up Slack for NWDUG.

Here’s an easy way to get split panes in PHPStorm without tearing your hair out!

Recently my anxiety is triggering more and more frequently.

Just over three months and I figure it’s time to check in.

I’ve done the impossible.

A while ago I found Sculpin through @opdavies it looked really great, a PHP based blogging engine.

The posts below are my journey through the past few years of my life with depression and anxiety.

alias d8build="composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev --stability dev --no-interaction" It’s too big for a tweet but it’s certainly useful, saves me having to remember all the params.

I’ve been fortunate in my life to be able to travel around a lot, both in the UK and the World.

Shamelessly stealing from Lewis Nymans great post I figured I’d do the same and blog about my 2015.

I’ve been looking for a release management tool for a while now.

After migrating my blog over to Sculpin I’ve slowly been tweaking things here and there.

When I decided to leave my last job I had a lot of thoughts running through my head.

After reading a lot of different docs for letsencrypt I couldn’t find an easy way of auto renewing my domains simply.

I’ve finally moved my blog from Ghost to Sculpin as you can probably see.

It feels like it’s been ages since I last blogged.

I sent the following email to the CEO of Northern Rail this morning after over a month of frustrating commutes to work.

I’m tired, I’m exhausted.

Since moving to a new house I have an proper office for the first time so I’m determined to get it right.

I fucked up and I fucked up badly.

I have a finite amount of energy.

The past three weeks have been crazy.

For a long time I wanted to contributed code to Drupal, I have a few times but no where near as much as I thought I was going to do.

This week I’ve found out I run a ridiculous amount of chat apps.

This has taken me way longer to work out than it should so I figured I’d write this up so people can use it while they wait until Rocket League comes out for linux.

Conference season is looming pretty fast, I’m giving talks at two of my most respected conferences.

Status: Failish I seem to have been all over the place today.