I just successfully submitted my first test-driven package to the PHP packagist repository. It’s just a little Laravel validation rule object for validating a hmac hash against a configurable group of key / value pairs. Am aiming to do a proper write up and possibly even a little video explaining it.
I remember the day clearly… It was the one day in the year that Udemy didn’t have a 90% sale on. Original meme inspired by Ronnie Corbett’s famous line.
Taking my first steps with YunoHost (Y U No Host) for most of my online needs. After a couple of false starts it seems to be coming together.
It’s been a long time coming, but I have finally deleted my Google account. Good riddance.
You know what? Fuck Google. Just when I think I couldn’t hate them more. Exporting my previous uploaded music (about 100gb worth) from their Play Music service. Do they put the songs into Artist / Album folders? Nope. Instead they package it up into 54 zipped folders and stick random songs along with loads of…
Started working on a side project I’m calling “Pitch”. It’s an end to end encrypted website starter inspired by SiteJS by the Small Technology Foundation. Got a basic vue app set up with the vue-cli but now can’t work out why my private key generator sometimes returns what I expect — a Uint8Array — and…
Sorting through and moving all of my photos from google photos into ProtonDrive. In preparation for finally deleting my google account once and for all. ProtonDrive offers encrypted storage that perfectly meets my needs — secure storage that actually cares about privacy.
My notes from Episode 2 of the British History Podcast.
Starting to listen to the British History Podcast again. Planning to work all of the way through it this time. I love the philosophy and energy behind the person presenting this show. 💚
Listening to Goblin Greatest Hits After watching Deep Red last night, the music of Goblin could be a new obsession for me. 🤪
If I start rebuilding my website in Laravel yet again, I really need to see it through and commit to it. If the last couple of weeks have taught me anything it’s that I love working with Laravel. Let’s see how this goes.
A detective interrogates a monkey who is suspected of murder What did Jack do? No one but David Lynch. Love it – and I haven’t even watched it yet.
You could tell from the huge grin across my face for the entirety of the first episode of AHS: 1984 that I was in heaven.
Just a great Tarantino meme that a friend sent me. Really sums a day off alone for me.
I’ve been a fan of American Horror Story for a few years now – since Hotel first aired. So you’d think I’d have been all over Scream Queens too, given it was also created in part by both Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy. But for some strange reason, known only to me I guess, I…
Loving the recent formats of the TV series Archer. Finally got back into watching it – Dreamland was great and just about to start Danger Island.
Once again, I have left the current series of American Horror Story until months after it has finished airing. I think it must be something inside me that doesn’t want to reach the end. Last night I watched four episodes back to back — and I absolutely loved it. The old characters that have been…
I really need to get and watch AHS: Apocalypse before this next series starts. I absolutely adore this show, but I always seem to wait until the next one is coming out before catching up. 1984 looks freaking awesome though – just the concept alone. Can’t wait.
I just stumbled upon a classic episode of the TV series Only Fools And Horses. It’s the one where Del Boy, Rodney and Cassandra win a holiday to Spain after Del sends one of Rodney’s old school paintings into a cereal competition. This series still stands up and I’m still laughing out loud watching it.…
Decided to go for a stroll, which ended up being a two-hour walk around a local nature reserve. Beautiful scenery but almost got bested by flooding water numerous times.
Looking forward to getting back into Alien: Isolation on the PS4 tonight. I tried playing it about a year ago but I got about an hour or so into it and stopped playing. Dunno why I never went back to it. However, I have been advised by a couple of mates through PSN that I…
After about six months of owning the game, I have finally started playing Skyrim VR. And I’ve gotta say – it is so f**king awesome. Okay so the graphics are still of the game’s original era, but being in that world just feels so great nonetheless. I get those butterflies in my stomach as I…
There’s an electricity in the air today; thunder and lightning and a quick downpour has recharged the air outside. I often prefer the weather like this when at home – there’s something about being indoors when outside is like that. Of course a lot of people have no choice but to be out in that…
@aral Thanks. I was binge watching your presentations last night and really got me thinking about how I interact with/on the web.
I was inspired by @aral balkan and have started my own reboot.