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  • Lateralus album by Tool

    “I know the pieces fit ‘Cause I watched them fall away”


  • Started to re-watch Breaking Bad. This’ll be my second time viewing. Think I’m gonna try and share my favourite shot from each episode.


  • I have decided to get back into tinkering with my Raspberry Pi. I will be blogging my journey as I stumble through my initial playing, through to building out my first proper homelab. This first Raspberry Pi (model 2b) will be initially used as both a wireguard VPN server and a local DNS server.


  • The God Slayer by Otep

    I’ve loved Otep’s music since discovering the album “Sevas Tra” — with that insane album cover being the thing that brought me in. Earlier today (yesterday) I listened to the recently-released The God Slayer, made up of half original songs and half covers. Loved it, although Sevas Tra has been — and remains — my…


  • I love the idea and philosophy of Stoicism. In practice, however, it’s bloody difficult to live by after 39 years. Will be working on this going forward.


  • Got the Chas and Dave itch again. Love these guys and the music just instantly makes me happy.


  • The Internet Archive / Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/) is absolutely incredible. It has saved most of my old posts and pages. Been spending a week or so rescuing those posts and bringing them back.


  • Was nice to finally meet most of the jump24 crew in the flesh last night. Even if I did come second to last in bowling. 😅 @jumptwenty4


  • Bowling with work mates.


  • What happened to the old library in Birmingham?


  • Been taking a few shots in Red Dead Redemption 2 recently. Will share them out very soon.


  • The Arch Wiki really is an incredible resource, regardless of what distro you’re running. Just got my video drivers setup correctly (I think) by just following the guide and the pages it took me to. #RTFM


  • New Thinkpad T470 installed with base Arch Linux and ready to rice it up.


  • Bought the Horizon Forbidden West tallneck lego.


  • Finally playing the original Red Dead Redemption (haven’t played sequel yet either) Really loving the O.G. game.


  • Replaying #DaysGone on #ps5 in survivor 2 mode. Just experiencing this gorgeous story again, it’s dawned on me how criminal it is that we may never see a sequel. 😞😞😞. Although a new IP in the same world would be great, considering that Syphon Filter seems to be in that world😏


  • 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.


  • Just watched the Episode “Here’s Negan” in The Walking Dead. Beautiful and Heartbreaking. @JDMorgan is incredible to watch.


  • Seriously can not wait for this chapter of DBD on the 15th June. Resident Evil 2 Remake and Resident Evil 3 remake have been two of my favourite games of the past few years — especially when re-playing. So to get this in my go-to multiplayer game, Dead By Daylight, is like birthday and Christmas…


  • 300 followers! (on twitter) Thank You so much for the people that have shared my shots and made me feel so welcome in literally the best community on Twitter. You all rock and can’t wait to get out there and continue the journeys with you all. 💚💚💚



  • 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.



  • 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…


  • Having a cat is so awesome. Wouldn’t change it for the world.


  • 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…


  • Lead to the river, midsummer, I waved A ‘V’ of black swans on with hope to the grave.All through Red September with skies fire-paved I begged you appear like a thorn for the holy ones — Nymphetamine. Lyrics by Dani Filth


  • So the whole “No mask no entry” rule in #tesco is basically bullshit. Every time I’m in there I see at least one person not wearing one.


  • 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.


  • Oh golly I just found the back up of my old website with loads and loads of old posts I thought Id lost. 💚