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• Scraping Birthdays from Facebook

  2024-01-29

  I used some hacky JavaScript to scrape my friends birthdays from Facebook so that I can put them in my actual calendar.

• Audio gear: a decent, portable mic for corporate video calls in a noisy room

  2024-01-29

  The Holy Grail is this: wireless, reliable, low-latency, high-quality sound in a reasonably-priced, portable package with noise reduction that doesn't rely on fancy software that the IT and security departments won't like. Is it possible?

• Weekend Project: Simple notes app

  2024-01-14

  I can't use any of my favourite note-taking apps at work. But I can use a web browser and I can write JavaScript. The logical conclusion is, of course, that I should build my own!

• High standards, low expectations

  2024-01-05

  This phrase has been a huge change of mindset for me. Really transformative. And I'm much happier. Here's what I mean.

• New Clothes!

  2024-01-04

  I don't buy many clothes. I don't like buying clothes. But I needed to buy clothes. And so I bought clothes. And it was fun!!

• Puzzles

  2024-01-01

  Remember Wordle? I LOVE puzzles, and we've accumulated quite a few fun things to do each day as a family. We generally do some of these over the breakfast table. It's AMAZING that all this stuff exists and is so accessible. Here's our favourites.

• I made a(nother) static site generator

  2023-12-31

  This time it's a static-file-driven, mobile-app-like blog. And the tooling I made should be usable on any simple WordPress blog! But... WHY???

• 2024, self-improvement, and habits

  2023-12-31

  I'm not a big end-of-year/start-of-year post guy. But 2023 did become rather chaotic, and I want to start 2024 with some energy and discipline. So... how?