David Peach

Just fleeting thoughts that pop into my mind. Or perhaps things I’ve been thinking about that don’t really warrant a full-on post.

  • The ActivityPub plugin for WordPress is incredible.

  • This morning i had my last decaffeinated tea bag.

    All I have left is Alta Rica coffee. I’ve had half-portions but something tells me that I’m going to be wired for half the day, before having a big caffeine crash.

    School boy error.

  • There’s a strange sense of joy and accomplishment that comes after mowing the lawns and thus filling the garden bin.

    Knowing that you’ve cleaned the garden somewhat.

    And knowing that you’re getting your money’s worth from the garden bin subscription.

    Nothing worse than seeing that collection truck go past for another week and having nothing to meet them at the bottom of the drive with. Another few quid wasted (pro-rata).

    But not this time. This time I’ll have an almost full bin and I won’t lie — feels pretty good.

  • What to write about

    I’m having a great time keeping up to date with the blogging journey of a friend of mine.

    And I mean keeping up — he must post at least three times a day.

    And I have found it inspiring.

    I used to write often back when I’d commute to work. But weirdly since working remotely I have written less. I suppose it’s not surprising — at home I have many things to pre-occupy myself.

    But I want to start posting more often. Maybe not three times a day, but much more often than i do.

    I do tend to post my daily Wordle plays, but I’m not counting those.

    Who knows how this will go. Or even if it will go.

    Let us see.

  • Trying to move my wordpress site over to using the composer-driven “bedrock” structure of wordpress.

    It’ll be a new server running docker, but will hopefully make it easier to make changes and deploy those changes to my site.

    We shall see.

  • Holy hell. The new Cradle of Filth album is out tomorrow.

    “The Screaming of the Valkyries”

    🤘🤘🤘

  • Been really digging this album today.

    Murder Ballads by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

    Never really heard their / his stuff other than the title song from Peaky Blinders.

    This album is incredible and dark. Going to be investigating more of his stuff.

  • It is scientifically impossible to play this song too loud.

    I liked the darkness in the early 00s when their initial hits came out but then just forgot about them.

    I have since rediscovered them.

    This song, Bald, and the album it featured on: One way ticket… are absolute fucking bangers.

    10/10.

  • This week I learned the term “Vibe Coding”.

    What an absolute load of rubbish 🤣. How has this even become a thing?

    Fediverse reactions

  • Connections Puzzle #642

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  • The Last of Us series 2 trailers

    I am so hyped for series 2 so thought I’d share the trailers for it here.

    The Last of Us Day trailer

    Official Trailer

  • Day out taking Henners to the park. He loved it and didn’t want to leave.

    I need to get fit enough to run this area in the early mornings.

    Here’s a picture of a swan we fed peas to.

    A white swan stands on the small shore of a lake - the lake in the background. The swan is eating frozen peas off the floor. It is sunny and only the faint remnants of light clouds are in the sky. The foliage and small trees on the shore line have no leaves yet. Just off shore a small stone structure can be seen.
    A white swan on a lake shore.