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One of the coolest things you can do today is work on stuff that’s pretty damn niche.

In the past, I’ve owned both Kindle and Kobo devices, and I think when it comes to examining these devices at stock, there’s no doubt that a Kindle has a better reading experience.

A while ago, I announced that I was working on Readerly, a new font derived from Newsreader.

PHP Monitor was originally intended to be a tool created for use with Laravel Valet, but over time it has definitely changed a lot.

This blog post is unrelated to the book by Charles Dickens, in case you were curious.

A couple of years ago I started using Nextcloud instead of Dropbox after having moved away from Gmail, and it was such a novel and good experience not to be constantly bombarded with bullshit, that I decided to slowly move my life away from the big busine…

I’ve been busy, so I’ve got a fun story to share today.

When I got back into reading in 2022 with my first steps into the Cosmere, I did not imagine that I would become a reading fiend and make my way through many books as the years have gone by.

A couple of years ago, in 2018, after becoming a fan of Total War: WARHAMMER, I started reading some of the Warhammer Fantasy books.

Welcome to the second part of my Windows-to-Bazzite journey.

Over the last little while, I’ve been wondering: what even is the point of remaining a software developer if [insert large language model here] can do a decent job in a profession that I’ve been doing for the last decade?

For the most part, 2025 was still very much a year of recovery for me.

Unlike last year’s list, this one is going to be a bit shorter.

Let’s not bury the lede: over the last few years, I’ve seen Windows become significantly worse, and it’s been frustrating to watch, and use.

For the last few months, I’ve been busy adding various new features and improvements to PHP Monitor, and there’s a monthly release schedule associated with the app again.

Today I’m officially launching Mylonia, my freelance software development company.

Since my last post, I did some more research in regard to this kerning thing on Kobo devices, and I wrote a whole script to automate many of the changes I’ve been manually making to various fonts.

Not too long ago, I released version 2.0 of my collection of tweaked fonts, and I was pretty sure I was done tweaking fonts for the rest of the year.

Last October, when I first sought professional help after getting my depression diagnosis, and it became clear that I was going to be unable to do my job for an extended period of time.

PHP Monitor 25.06 is now available with a few fresh visual touches and some minor bug fixes.