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I had a problem where the integrated WiFi 7 adapter on my MSI motherboard would randomly just… disappear… from the system.

I cancelled Disney Plus in September (though my annual sub runs until March).

It’s that time of year again.

Important This post originally mentioned another linux installation that is based on Arch.

I wrote a while back that I was hosting the images for this blog on Azure.

I’ve been wanting to redo the theme of this site for a while.

For the last 2-3 months I’ve been running an experiment on my use of social media.

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to setup, but I finally added a snippet to VSCode for inserting Frontmatter into a Markdown file - handy for e.g, adding a new post to an Eleventy-powered blog.

I’ve been a bit in the doldrums this week.

A few days ago I came across a blog post that reminded me that I had intended to bridge my fediverse accounts to Bluesky using Bridgy Fed.

It’s been over a year since I last wrote about what I use, and I’ve been seeing plenty people’s update posts pop up in my feed reader this week, so it’s time to look at my default apps again.

Advent Of Code has been around for ages.

It’s been a while since I wrote about Bluesky.

Yesterday was stressful, not going to lie.

Picture the scene, Dear Reader; it’s just after 10am, and you take a moment to open the just-delivered mail over the remains of your morning coffee.

I’ve been playing around with the new ios 18 beta, now it’s available to the public.

I just added[1] the new Mastodon/Fediverse link attribution meta tag to this site, partly because I think it’s a neat idea, but also because it took ~2 minutes to do and I’m all for quick wins at the moment.

I mentioned in the last post I was really enjoying dragonriding in the Pandaria: Remix event that’s going on in World of Warcraft right now.

I was planning to write a blog post about getting up early in the near future, but Johnny Decimal went and beat me to it, so that spurred me to write it sooner.

The Craftsman is a Coffee and Alehouse in Aberdeen.

At the start of the year I restored a lot of old posts to this site from a WordPress backup.

Second Home is a newly-opened café + studio in Aberdeen.

I recently came into possession of a Raspberry Pi 5B, and was trying to figure out what to do with it.

I got on a plane for the first time in about 6 years this week, and about 11 years since my first solo trip.