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As the World Cup begins, it’s time for my tradition of predicting every match to pick an eventual winner.

I watched 82 movies in 2025 (excluding rewatches), down from 119 in 2024.

My home screen has changed a lot since I last posted it.

Having migrated my site to Eleventy and used AI to automate the process, I can now create these end-of-year movie round-up posts much more easily.

According to Pocket Casts, my top five podcasts of 2024 were dominated by David Chen and The McElroys, who sandwiched my favorite, The Flop House

I generally consider myself an “AI skeptic”, but I tried Windsurf last week and was blown away.

I changed my avatar background color to purple for Mastodon and blue for Bluesky so that I can more easily tell which account I’m looking at in Ivory

It’s that time of year again when I look back on the movies I watched in 2023 and pick my favorite and least favorite.

Last week I launched an update to my site that migrated it from WordPress and custom PHP to Eleventy (and a tiny amount of custom PHP).

I’m actively working on a new version of Web Developer, and it’s a huge update.

I met Molly Holzschlag in person a few times when I was first starting out as a web developer.

Google approved the new version of Web Developer, and it is once again available in the Chrome Web Store 🙌

You may have noticed that Web Developer is no longer available in the Chrome Web Store.

Ahead of a long flight this weekend, I just tried to borrow a book using the Libby app, only to find that my library card had expired a month ago.

I need to write a post about everything I’m running on my Mac mini home server, but the latest addition is Uptime Kuma as a self-hosted uptime monitoring solution: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

When I migrated to Readwise Reader, I imported over 1,500 items from Pocket that I had saved over a decade.

I started using Letterboxd again this year to track the movies I watch.

Starting 2023 with a new home screen using custom icons for everything

My reading has dramatically slowed since I started working from home in 2020.

I added a notice to Read Ruler that it is no longer maintained or supported and will not be accessible after May 1st, 2023.