alifeee's blog

hitchhiking to spain for the 2026 solar eclipse

CGI scripts: what are they, how to create them, why I like them

what I read and mostly read in July

pictures, captions, and statistics about my time at EMF Camp 2026

What is Boneless Wednesday?

data and thoughts on a group hitchhike from Sheffield to Grenoble

Using OwnTracks – a self-hosted location tracker – for our hitchhiking trips

Jumbled thoughts and pictures from my first time attending FOSDEM in Brussels

Making my own copy of Blood on the Clocktower

A timeline of progress in a Factorio world, played with a proximity voice chat mod that I made

Side-by-side comparison pictures of a developed Minecraft world with the initial empty world

Seeing what I can swap for what I can swap for what I can swap for a carambar

Attaching two support struts to our bench to stop it wobbling

Casting a dice at Sheffield Hackspace

all my hitchhiking trips so far

3D printing a repair for my sellotape dispenser

Folding an A4 sheet into its own envelope

UK Railcards and all the differences between the 16-25 and 26-30 Railcard

Why I like (GitHub) gists and a short tour through ones I have created

What did people make and what did I learn?

How to create a blog (gist)

How and why I made my first font

I talk a lot about third spaces.

What, why, and how is a Hackspace, and what have I used them for?

Using Lua and C to enable proximity-based voice chat in Factorio

Making Pong on an old Dot-Matrix Display.

How I made an automatic collage generator: to make a custom game collage using the games in any Steam library.

Tiny snippets from Masters' degree reports and dissertations at Durham University.

We took a blank sketchbook to a university freshers' fair and asked every society to draw us something.

Why is it so hard to compare city populations?

The story of my first bike-tour, and why trains are great.