• May 2025

• 16 16 May 2025, 6:34 am
• 11 Month notes & numbers №14

• April

• 18 The difference between programs and products
• 18 18 April 2025, 5:58 am
• 15 A lack of frequency increases the pressure to deliver quality
• 15 15 April 2025, 5:36 pm

• March

• 30 Month notes & numbers №13
• 19 19 March 2025, 5:29 pm
• 13 13 March 2025, 10:03 am
• 12 In the way
• 11 11 March 2025, 2:52 pm
• 09 Month notes & numbers №12

• February

• 01 Month notes & numbers №11

• January

• 01 2024
• 01 Month notes & numbers №10
• 01 Planner plans for 2025

• November 2024

• 04 Social skills
• 03 Month notes & numbers №9: bankruptcy
• 03 Big black trash bag energy

• October

• 13 Home-cooked web apps

• September

• 06 Month notes & numbers №8

• August

• 13 It's okay to lower the bar
• 06 Month notes & numbers №7

• July

• 08 Comfortable with the struggle
• 01 Daily lettering week 4
• 01 Month notes & numbers №6

• June

• 24 Daily lettering week 3
• 18 Field notes
• 16 Daily lettering week 2
• 07 Daily lettering week 1
• 04 Comedy series I've watched over and over (and over)

• May

• 31 Month notes & numbers №5
• 30 A #WeblogPoMo2024 retrospective
• 29 An easing rule of thumb
• 28 Why being on my phone too much makes me feel bad
• 27 Jumpsport 220 fitness trampoline
• 26 Code sketch #7
• 25 Code sketch #6
• 24 I need your quotes
• 23 Generative AI is for the idea guys
• 22 My own little patch
• 21 Start from a corner of the room
• 20 Some observations after journaling every day this year
• 19 Code sketch #5
• 18 Styling the external links on this site
• 17 I've never done a real interview
• 16 Mum jeans
• 15 How quickly can I make an Astro DB project? (part 2)
• 14 How quickly can I make an Astro DB project? (part 1)
• 13 Post Brain
• 12 On being a mother
• 11 Code sketch #4
• 10 The worse you feel, the more committed you are to your protocol
• 09 My favourite afternoon snack
• 08 How does Anh Do write so many books?
• 07 Creativity sprints
• 06 I added a now page to the site
• 05 Spotify DJ is like a music pokie
• 04 I'm in a paperless trap of my own making
• 03 Using lighter YouTube embeds on the site
• 02 DJs that wear things over their head
• 01 Month notes & numbers №4
• 01 Is it cheating if your first post for Weblog Posting Month is about how you're partaking in Weblog Posting Month?

• April

• 30 Month notes & numbers №3

• March

• 12 The Organised Mum Method by Gemma Bray
• 11 Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
• 10 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• 04 Month notes & numbers №2

• February

• 03 Month notes & numbers №1

• January

• 30 I turned off analytics
• 29 Chronicling
• 28 Roland F701
• 27 A not so casual gamer
• 09 Conditionally adding content to my Obsidian daily note with the Templater plugin
• 02 A work from home reset for the new year

• December 2023

• 31 App Defaults 2023
• 27 Hobonichi Techo Cousin
• 22 A big ass wall calendar
• 16 My goal for 2024: to remember it

• November

• 23 A weekly task list with the Alastair Method
• 20 My simple 16 step system for adding comments to my static site built with Astro
• 15 Disco dishes
• 12 A redesign

• October

• 31 If I could be anything

• September

• 26 Less typical
• 23 I moved from my self hosted Mastodon instance to a micro.blog account
• 11 No Inputs Day
• 04 The middle point of softness, kindness, calmness

• August

• 30 How often do you get to rewrite and rethink?

• July

• 17 Flexibility
• 16 Is TypeScript good?
• 10 Reassessing the morning routine in 2023
• 09 I made some rainbow fireworks with PixiJS

• June

• 18 10 years ago we were at peak parallax

• May

• 22 Surrender
• 07 My first try at using p5.js
• 05 The inevitable menty-b of early motherhood
• 01 Recent ChatGPT prompts

• April

• 24 Opal
• 17 Find your feedback loop
• 09 Recreating the title effect from creativesouth.com
• 06 Lerp
• 02 I could spend the rest of my life clearing the decks, if I'm not careful

• March

• 29 Content Collections are a welcome addition to my Astro setup
• 27 I Will Teach You To Be Rich
• 21 Renew the Let's Encrypt certificate on your Digital Ocean Mastodon Instance
• 21 Using regex with find-and-replace in VS Code
• 05 "The longer you leave it, the better it has to be" and other weird, wrong ideas from my perfectionist brain
• 03 AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search

• February

• 20 Create a rainbow-coloured list with :nth-of-type()
• 15 Back on my bullet journaling
• 12 I probably understand around 4% of the information I consume
• 10 The Perfect Mother Myth and Mothering within the context of Motherhood
• 02 And this is what a shit version of that would look like...

• January

• 31 Everything Everywhere All At Once
• 30 Reading code is a different experience to writing code
• 23 Subscribe a lot, consume a little
• 19 Remove Shorts from your YouTube Subscriptions feed with :has()
• 18 Learning in public isn't so easy when you're buried by layers of engineering
• 16 The hardest part of being a Junior Developer
• 09 School shoes
• 07 Don't want to fix that bug? Here are 6 things you can do instead
• 04 Today was an amazing regular day
• 03 The incredible portfolio websites of Lynn Fisher
• 02 Creating a Habits Dashboard with Obsidian and the Dataview JS API

• December 2022

• 31 How I achieved my goal of "writing more"
• 29 (Almost) no one cares
• 19 Oh, the things I would do with the time I do not have!
• 15 Where has Brett Terpstra's SearchLink been all my life?
• 15 HyperKey
• 09 How Supabase fits into your stack
• 06 I paid for some of those Lensa AI profile images
• 03 You've heard of Elf on the Shelf...
• 01 The Minimal theme for Obsidian has checkbox icons

• November

• 29 Deciding once about skincare and cosmetics
• 24 Natural Language inputs for all the things
• 23 Do what you say you're going to do
• 21 Hanson's Christmas albums
• 19 Moving from problem adder to problem solver
• 15 Tired of timelines
• 09 A non-exhaustive list of the completely messed up content I consumed in the 2000s
• 08 My lifestyle-centric career
• 05 I'm in need of a phase
• 02 Oops! There's an oops in our error messages
• 02 Use command+o to make new notes in Obsidian
• 01 Don't remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place

• October

• 31 Keyboard shortcuts for navigating a large file in VSCode
• 27 The shorter the feedback loop, the better
• 26 Automating the process for moving notes from my Obsidian vault to my Astro site
• 23 Atomic, linked notes
• 10 Look it up
• 07 Time management advice for mums
• 06 Good things September 2022

• September

• 29 AR glasses are here?
• 27 Functional perfectionism
• 23 A developer has a baby
• 19 Replace the curtains
• 17 There is nothing better
• 16 It doesn't seem that passive to me
• 13 Wtf is an island and why is it in my website?
• 09 Australian slang that I have used with my long-suffering American colleagues
• 04 Good things: August 2022
• 01 Putting the graph in GraphQL

• August

• 31 Little tees
• 28 Do this before you use Apollo Client
• 25 Quickly toggle Copilot suggestions on and off with your keyboard
• 23 Use a narrowed focus to complete big projects
• 18 There are two parts to minimalism
• 16 The diminishing returns of self development content
• 15 I love this post about loving
• 13 Remote work
• 10 How to spot a fake guru
• 08 64%
• 05 Cool things: July 2022
• 02 Track your time

• July

• 28 Is Ryan Kaji going to be okay
• 25 How to get started with animating on the web
• 22 Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep
• 21 Grifter math
• 20 Synthwave
• 19 Maybe I'm in the sweet spot for GitHub Copilot
• 17 How I added tags to my Astro site
• 16 No one warns you not to pull your toddler's shirt off while they are standing next to the bath
• 15 Beyond random
• 11 Initial thoughts on Astro
• 08 Spotify Podcasts should be a separate App
• 07 Just a big brain developer trying to be a grug brain
• 03 Does your face light up?
• 01 Paying for software subscriptions is my passion

• June

• 28 It's okay for me to be wrong
• 27 Fuck it

• February

• 04 Creating vs. Consuming

• January

• 05 2021

• December 2021

• 13 GitHub Copilot, hedonic adaptation and developer tools
• 09 Weaning, mental health and productivity

• November

• 24 How to write a high-engagement tweet
• 22 10,000 gatsby develops later
• 22 My blog is dead. Long live my digital garden

• October

• 21 Making my daily notes in the public workspace
• 13 Loving right now: Optimize.me
• 05 Code-first to product-first

• September

• 28 My parenting/mothering podcast recommendations
• 21 What happens when you listen to yourself?
• 13 Touch the keys
• 10 Loving right now: the Tutorials and CodePens of George Francis
• 07 Full-stack? T-Shaped? Comb-Shaped? Developer or Engineer?
• 01 How I keep up with the latest Front-End Development news, without scrolling my life away

• August

• 28 Screen time
• 25 Loving right now: This Figma template for creating Database ERDs
• 12 We confuse visibility with competency
• 09 I'm 35 - reflections, plans and wishes
• 02 Learning how you best learn: some questions to ask yourself

• July

• 26 I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
• 10 How I'm going to try and stop my "revenge bedtime procrastination"
• 05 Ugg Boots
• 01 I listened to: Parenting Mojo - Most of what you know about attachment is probably wrong

• June

• 21 Avoiding "when, then" thinking versus respecting your season
• 13 Why write?

• May

• 29 The must-have utility apps I use every day on my Macbook Pro
• 10 Strategies for dealing with a catnapping baby (that don’t involve sleep training): Define your priorities

• April

• 26 Another lesson
• 12 Loving right now: Obsidian.md
• 04 Matching pantry containers

• March

• 26 Thoughts on the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
• 24 How to open a specific Notion page on your iPhone
• 16 The 5-minute timer hack I use to get almost anything done
• 10 Baby products that actually helped me
• 06 Loving right now: this VSCode font + theme combo
• 02 The reason caring for babies and toddlers can be so maddening

• February

• 27 That family holiday is worth the work
• 21 The Tech setup for this blog - Ghost + Gatsby
• 17 Simple is hard
• 11 To be whole is the goal
• 08 Mantras for when the baby won’t nap alone
• 08 Strategies for dealing with a catnapping baby (that don’t involve sleep training): Mindset and resetting expectations
• 03 How I implement Atomic Habits

• January

• 25 TIL: Resulting
• 19 Don't ask me, I'm a guesser
• 14 5 years at CodePen: a reflection
• 12 Thoughts on Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
• 02 1 year ago, I gave up Twitter
• 01 2020 - Shadow and Light

• December 2020

• 30 Lessons I learnt with my first baby that I'm bringing to my second

• October 2017

• 16 I haven't experienced imposter syndrome, and maybe you haven't either