uncountable thoughts

My second time hosting the IndieWeb blog carnival , which this month was on the subject of Purpose.

If you live in the UK, did you buy petrol last week?

I’m hosting the August 2026 IndieWeb Blog Carnival , and so excited to read your take on this month’s topic: Purpose Everyone is welcome to participate.

I never really ever thought too much about purpose during my career.

This is my 1,000th blog post!

I run a website for my local town called Discover Dursley.

Today is Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day.

There’s a cool free google account feature that tends to go somewhat under the radar.

I set up a password manager around 2010, and it remains the single best digital life move I’ve made.

I’ve been using Gemini Pro for almost a year now.

Although I’ve been retired for several years, I don’t have a monthly income land in my current account automatically.

There’s major work to do at the back of the house and half the ground floor.

Plenty has been written on how people use AI (or not), but I’ve seen very little on the attitudes and style adopted when expressing their position.

I have a wordpress website and develop bespoke functionality for it on my local PC before uploading the final code as a plugin zip to production.

Oh … that aged well.

One area that seems somewhat under reported in the AI world is the enormous ease and benefit it has brought to developing websites with wordpress.

Matthias is feeling the brunt of bots relentlessly hitting his personal website: I sat there staring at those logs for a while.

I like daily puzzles.

As of early 2026, most of the worldwide earnings from capitalism are being re-invested into AI development (as well as a healthy amount of borrowed debt).

I have been holding a series of interviews with people about money … their attitude towards it, goals and sharing some of their financial journey.