It took me a fair while, but I’ve finished migrating my VPS off Linode now – finally. I was spending ~£20/month on servers, and that’s set to increase by another 20% this month. I’ve now gone for Contabo, who are pretty reputable and were offering a really good package – 4-CPU, 8GB RAM, 400GB SSD […]
Robb Knight has this great Javascript tool for embedding your omg.lol /now page in another page. I thought it was pretty cool to use, but because I’m allergic to client-side Javascript, I wanted to port it to Eleventy so that I could generate it once-per-build. It was actually pretty simple to do, because the server-side […]
I feel like my posting on here has slowed down a lot in the last month. In part that’s because I’ve been a lot busier at work, but I’ve also found myself not having anything to write about. Well, that’s not true. There are 3-or-4 posts lingering in my drafts right now, but I’ve not […]
This is another post about cycling, but my parents bought me a helmet-mounted camera to wear when I cycle. It’s kind-of a necessity, particularly when commuting, because motorists are lunatics and cycling infrastructure is inadequate in almost every part of the UK. Unfortunately, they were duped into buying a Mini F9. It’s an extremely common […]
I’ve been loving my bike ever since it was gifted to me: a black Specialized Allez on Fulcrum Racing 5 wheels. It goes like shit off a hot shovel, because it’s so lightweight (I think it clocks in at about 8kg unladen). But the problem with being an amateur cyclist who’s never been particularly skilled […]