Ewan’s Blog

I have had my AirPods Pro 3 for exactly two weeks, which is not really enough time for a long-term review.

Apple held its September event yesterday at 18:00 BST, and for once I came away from an iPhone launch genuinely interested in an iPhone I have absolutely no intention of buying.

Thank you, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, for comments that were widely reported as criticising young people who are not in work, education or training.

PEAK received its final major content update on 11 August 2026.

Four months ago, my shunt failed.

Posting online has started to wear me down.

I exported my entire AT Protocol repository and got back a roughly 63 MB CAR file containing 133,977 live records across 190 collections.

The numbers that mattered and the ones that didn't A year or so before my brain surgery, my IT course manager pulled me into a meeting to tell me I was slacking off.

Inkwell 2.0 is out for iOS and Android.

I've got a theory, and it's a stupid one, and I've now tested it enough times that I'm fairly confident it's also correct.

Bluesky says I have 2,558 followers.

Tha Gàidhlig agam.

Starting January 2028, if you buy a new PlayStation game, there won't be a disc option.

I moved off Spotify this week, and this one's been a long time coming.

I'm a few weeks out from having a Level 3 IT diploma with my name on it — I'm about to go looking for actual paid work doing this — and I have already had the conversation I know I'm going to have for the rest of my career.

I run a Personal Data Server.

I left a comment on a TikTok the other day.

An t-seachdain seo, fhuair mi an teisteanas agam.

I know I've been touching on religion a lot recently on this blog.

I got my first GitHub Sponsors payment yesterday.

I was on the werewolf side of TikTok, minding my own business, when the algorithm decided I needed to see a woman crying because a barista wrote "Happy Holidays" on her cup.

I finished my Level 3 Diploma this summer.

I caught myself doing the thing again about an hour ago.

There's a theory about The Amazing Digital Circus that sounds like a joke until you sit down and look at the software architecture.

Andy Burnham gets sworn in today.

I knew about Omarchy for a while before today.

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I want to be clear about something before I start: this was my fault.

I asked myself, a few weeks ago, whether it would be normal to go by Eòghann when I'm speaking Gàidhlig.

I went looking for a pentacle earlier this evening, in the way you go looking for a full stop when you're finishing a sentence – not expecting it to be an event, just expecting it to be there.

I already said the calm version of this in "Available (Eventually)" – qualification finishing, job market opening, GitHub history speaking for itself.

There's a particular kind of horror in noticing you've started saying "delve" unironically.

I ordered an M4 Mac mini on the 28th of April.

I made a burner account on Twitter recently, mostly out of morbid curiosity as I do every few months to poke at the festering, bloated corpse, and came away with a fairly settled opinion: the platform doesn't read like a social network anymore so much as a

Inkwell exists in three separate codebases now, which is either a sign of momentum or a sign I should learn to say no to myself.

I want to be calm and considered about this.

Today, 23/06/2026, is exactly ten years since the UK voted to leave the European Union.

I wrote about W Social when it announced at Davos in January — twice, as it turned out.

The religion question on a census form is, as a rule, designed for people who have a straightforward answer.

I do not usually write about tools the same day I encounter them.

I was on TikTok recently – which is an experience I continue to have mixed feelings about – and I watched someone argue with complete confidence that Linux is an operating system.

ewancroft.uk uses AI.

I watched the WWDC26 keynote at 18:00 BST this evening, live-posting on Bluesky like the extremely normal person I am, and came away from it in a better mood than I expected to.

There's a particular flavour of disorientation that hits you the moment the structured education system finally spits you out.

I grew up on devices.

Not a Label, Just Meaning One of the questions I've occasionally been asked is whether I'm Wiccan or a Druid.

Three years ago, my personal website first appeared on the internet.

When people say "Bluesky," they usually mean one of two different things, and conflating them causes problems.

Ever since I was a kid, I thought the Moon was my friend.

There is an argument I keep running into on certain corners of the internet — and increasingly in comment sections where the algorithm has decided I might enjoy a fight — that goes roughly like this: Pagans who cite historical Christian persecution of the…