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Browser Extensions I Consider Essential
One weird trick to improve your Internet experience
For this post, I am assuming that you use Firefox. I would strongly recommend you do use Firefox; its mobile port supports browser extensions - so you can use the same configuration across platforms,...Read more
Silicon Valley Sold Us Convenience
But at what cost?
Ever since I first read Noah Smith's Honestly, it's probably the phones, I've been unable to stop the feeling that there's a link between Internet use (namely via the ubiquity of the smartphone) and...Read more
Internet Manifesto
It's the principle of the thing
When I published my first blog post on this website, 955 days ago, I alluded to some of the reasons why I chose to do so; it had only been a few months since Elon Musk had purchased Twitter (see for...Read more
From Analogue to Digital
A breakdown of my video game collection and setup
I like to play video games; it's a pleasant thing on an afternoon after work to be able to grab a controller from the drawer, turn on a console, and indulge in play. The majority of my collection...Read more
Eleventy, Nunjucks, and Footnotes
Website upgrades for 2025
Whilst working on bigger blog posts for this website, I ran into the issue that I don't have support for footnotes! I've come up with a solution, and I'm going to include an example of a footnote[1]...Read more
Articles I Might Finish Some Day
A roundup of things I would like to write about
The last article I wrote on this blog was on the 6th of March. I hadn't updated my now page since late May. In the months since these posts, I've been deep into the throes of Real Life (that is, the...Read more
Fixing Copyright Notices
SPDX licence standards applied in 15 lines of bash
Recently, I've been working on starlight - a project that I've had in my stable since 2021, aimed at replacing the frontend portion of Zigbee2MQTT with a simpler and more user friendly interface....Read more