#astro
- Styling the external links on this site
- How quickly can I make an Astro DB project? (part 2)
- How quickly can I make an Astro DB project? (part 1)
- My simple 16 step system for adding comments to my static site built with Astro
- Content Collections are a welcome addition to my Astro setup
- How Supabase fits into your stack
- Automating the process for moving notes from my Obsidian vault to my Astro site
- Wtf is an island and why is it in my website?
- How I added tags to my Astro site
- Initial thoughts on Astro
#books
- The worse you feel, the more committed you are to your protocol
- The Organised Mum Method by Gemma Bray
- Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- I could spend the rest of my life clearing the decks, if I'm not careful
- Deciding once about skincare and cosmetics
- The diminishing returns of self development content
- 64%
- Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep
- Loving right now: Optimize.me
- Thoughts on the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
- How I implement Atomic Habits
- Thoughts on Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
#creativity
- Daily lettering week 4
- Daily lettering week 3
- Daily lettering week 2
- Daily lettering week 1
- I need your quotes
- Generative AI is for the idea guys
- Post Brain
- Creativity sprints
- I could spend the rest of my life clearing the decks, if I'm not careful
- Oh, the things I would do with the time I do not have!
- Creating vs. Consuming
#development
- A stack of browsers
- Pages CMS
- The difference between programs and products
- Home-cooked web apps
- Comfortable with the struggle
- An easing rule of thumb
- Code sketch #7
- Code sketch #6
- My own little patch
- Code sketch #5
- Styling the external links on this site
- I've never done a real interview
- How quickly can I make an Astro DB project? (part 2)
- How quickly can I make an Astro DB project? (part 1)
- Code sketch #4
- Spotify DJ is like a music pokie
- Using lighter YouTube embeds on the site
- My simple 16 step system for adding comments to my static site built with Astro
- A redesign
- How often do you get to rewrite and rethink?
- Is TypeScript good?
- I made some rainbow fireworks with PixiJS
- 10 years ago we were at peak parallax
- My first try at using p5.js
- Find your feedback loop
- Recreating the title effect from creativesouth.com
- Lerp
- Content Collections are a welcome addition to my Astro setup
- Renew the Let's Encrypt certificate on your Digital Ocean Mastodon Instance
- Using regex with find-and-replace in VS Code
- Create a rainbow-coloured list with :nth-of-type()
- Reading code is a different experience to writing code
- Remove Shorts from your YouTube Subscriptions feed with :has()
- Learning in public isn't so easy when you're buried by layers of engineering
- The hardest part of being a Junior Developer
- The incredible portfolio websites of Lynn Fisher
- Creating a Habits Dashboard with Obsidian and the Dataview JS API
- How Supabase fits into your stack
- Natural Language inputs for all the things
- Moving from problem adder to problem solver
- Oops! There's an oops in our error messages
- Don't remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place
- Keyboard shortcuts for navigating a large file in VSCode
- The shorter the feedback loop, the better
- Automating the process for moving notes from my Obsidian vault to my Astro site
- Look it up
- Replace the curtains
- Wtf is an island and why is it in my website?
- Putting the graph in GraphQL
- Do this before you use Apollo Client
- Quickly toggle Copilot suggestions on and off with your keyboard
- Use a narrowed focus to complete big projects
- How to get started with animating on the web
- Maybe I'm in the sweet spot for GitHub Copilot
- How I added tags to my Astro site
- Beyond random
- Initial thoughts on Astro
- Just a big brain developer trying to be a grug brain
- It's okay for me to be wrong
- GitHub Copilot, hedonic adaptation and developer tools
- 10,000 gatsby develops later
- My blog is dead. Long live my digital garden
- Code-first to product-first
- Loving right now: the Tutorials and CodePens of George Francis
- Full-stack? T-Shaped? Comb-Shaped? Developer or Engineer?
- How I keep up with the latest Front-End Development news, without scrolling my life away
- Loving right now: This Figma template for creating Database ERDs
- We confuse visibility with competency
- Learning how you best learn: some questions to ask yourself
- I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
- Loving right now: this VSCode font + theme combo
- The Tech setup for this blog - Ghost + Gatsby
- TIL: Resulting
- Don't ask me, I'm a guesser
- 5 years at CodePen: a reflection
- I haven't experienced imposter syndrome, and maybe you haven't either
#food
#home
#journaling
- 2024
- Planner plans for 2025
- It's okay to lower the bar
- Some observations after journaling every day this year
- Hobonichi Techo Cousin
- My goal for 2024: to remember it
- A weekly task list with the Alastair Method
- Reassessing the morning routine in 2023
- Back on my bullet journaling
- Why write?
- How I implement Atomic Habits
#meta
- Pages CMS
- A lack of frequency increases the pressure to deliver quality
- A #WeblogPoMo2024 retrospective
- Styling the external links on this site
- I added a now page to the site
- Using lighter YouTube embeds on the site
- I turned off analytics
- My simple 16 step system for adding comments to my static site built with Astro
- A redesign
- Content Collections are a welcome addition to my Astro setup
- Automating the process for moving notes from my Obsidian vault to my Astro site
- How I added tags to my Astro site
- 10,000 gatsby develops later
#miscellany
- Comedy series I've watched over and over (and over)
- Mum jeans
- How does Anh Do write so many books?
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- I'm in need of a phase
- Good things September 2022
- AR glasses are here?
- It doesn't seem that passive to me
- Good things: August 2022
- There are two parts to minimalism
- I love this post about loving
- Cool things: July 2022
- Is Ryan Kaji going to be okay
- Grifter math
- Synthwave
- Spotify Podcasts should be a separate App
- 2021
- How to write a high-engagement tweet
- Ugg Boots
#mn&n
- Month notes & numbers №14
- Month notes & numbers №13
- Month notes & numbers №12
- Month notes & numbers №11
- Month notes & numbers №10
- Month notes & numbers №9: bankruptcy
- Month notes & numbers №8
- Month notes & numbers №7
- Month notes & numbers №6
- Month notes & numbers №5
- Month notes & numbers №4
- Month notes & numbers №3
- Month notes & numbers №2
- Month notes & numbers №1
#mothering
- Social skills
- On being a mother
- The inevitable menty-b of early motherhood
- Recent ChatGPT prompts
- The Perfect Mother Myth and Mothering within the context of Motherhood
- School shoes
- Oh, the things I would do with the time I do not have!
- Time management advice for mums
- A developer has a baby
- There is nothing better
- Little tees
- Is Ryan Kaji going to be okay
- No one warns you not to pull your toddler's shirt off while they are standing next to the bath
- Does your face light up?
- 2021
- My parenting/mothering podcast recommendations
- I listened to: Parenting Mojo - Most of what you know about attachment is probably wrong
- Avoiding "when, then" thinking versus respecting your season
- Strategies for dealing with a catnapping baby (that don’t involve sleep training): Define your priorities
- Another lesson
- Baby products that actually helped me
- The reason caring for babies and toddlers can be so maddening
- That family holiday is worth the work
- Simple is hard
- Strategies for dealing with a catnapping baby (that don’t involve sleep training): Mindset and resetting expectations
- Mantras for when the baby won’t nap alone
- 2020 - Shadow and Light
- Lessons I learnt with my first baby that I'm bringing to my second
#music
#obsidian
- Conditionally adding content to my Obsidian daily note with the Templater plugin
- App Defaults 2023
- AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search
- Back on my bullet journaling
- How I achieved my goal of "writing more"
- The Minimal theme for Obsidian has checkbox icons
- Use command+o to make new notes in Obsidian
- Automating the process for moving notes from my Obsidian vault to my Astro site
- Good things September 2022
- My blog is dead. Long live my digital garden
- Loving right now: Obsidian.md
#podcasts
- I've never done a real interview
- Disco dishes
- The middle point of softness, kindness, calmness
- Reassessing the morning routine in 2023
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- And this is what a shit version of that would look like...
- Where has Brett Terpstra's SearchLink been all my life?
- Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep
- My parenting/mothering podcast recommendations
- I listened to: Parenting Mojo - Most of what you know about attachment is probably wrong
#productivity
- 2024
- Field notes
- Start from a corner of the room
- I'm in a paperless trap of my own making
- Chronicling
- A not so casual gamer
- A work from home reset for the new year
- Hobonichi Techo Cousin
- A big ass wall calendar
- A weekly task list with the Alastair Method
- Less typical
- No Inputs Day
- Surrender
- Opal
- I could spend the rest of my life clearing the decks, if I'm not careful
- "The longer you leave it, the better it has to be" and other weird, wrong ideas from my perfectionist brain
- AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search
- Back on my bullet journaling
- I probably understand around 4% of the information I consume
- Today was an amazing regular day
- How I achieved my goal of "writing more"
- (Almost) no one cares
- Oh, the things I would do with the time I do not have!
- HyperKey
- Where has Brett Terpstra's SearchLink been all my life?
- Do what you say you're going to do
- Time management advice for mums
- Functional perfectionism
- Use a narrowed focus to complete big projects
- The diminishing returns of self development content
- Paying for software subscriptions is my passion
- Fuck it
- Creating vs. Consuming
- GitHub Copilot, hedonic adaptation and developer tools
- Weaning, mental health and productivity
- Making my daily notes in the public workspace
- Loving right now: Optimize.me
- Touch the keys
- Screen time
- We confuse visibility with competency
- Learning how you best learn: some questions to ask yourself
- How I'm going to try and stop my "revenge bedtime procrastination"
- Avoiding "when, then" thinking versus respecting your season
- The must-have utility apps I use every day on my Macbook Pro
- Strategies for dealing with a catnapping baby (that don’t involve sleep training): Define your priorities
- Loving right now: Obsidian.md
- Thoughts on the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
- How to open a specific Notion page on your iPhone
- The 5-minute timer hack I use to get almost anything done
- The reason caring for babies and toddlers can be so maddening
- Strategies for dealing with a catnapping baby (that don’t involve sleep training): Mindset and resetting expectations
- How I implement Atomic Habits
- TIL: Resulting
- 1 year ago, I gave up Twitter
- Lessons I learnt with my first baby that I'm bringing to my second
#wellbeing
- 2024
- Why being on my phone too much makes me feel bad
- Jumpsport 220 fitness trampoline
- Start from a corner of the room
- The worse you feel, the more committed you are to your protocol
- A not so casual gamer
- If I could be anything
- Less typical
- No Inputs Day
- The middle point of softness, kindness, calmness
- Reassessing the morning routine in 2023
- Surrender
- Today was an amazing regular day
- A non-exhaustive list of the completely messed up content I consumed in the 2000s
- There is nothing better
- How to spot a fake guru
- 64%
- Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep
- It's okay for me to be wrong
- Fuck it
- Creating vs. Consuming
- 2021
- Weaning, mental health and productivity
- What happens when you listen to yourself?
- Screen time
- I'm 35 - reflections, plans and wishes
- How I'm going to try and stop my "revenge bedtime procrastination"
- Avoiding "when, then" thinking versus respecting your season
- Why write?
- Matching pantry containers
- That family holiday is worth the work
- Simple is hard
- To be whole is the goal
- Strategies for dealing with a catnapping baby (that don’t involve sleep training): Mindset and resetting expectations
- Mantras for when the baby won’t nap alone
- 1 year ago, I gave up Twitter
- 2020 - Shadow and Light
#work
- The difference between programs and products
- Comfortable with the struggle
- I've never done a real interview
- A work from home reset for the new year
- How often do you get to rewrite and rethink?
- Flexibility
- Learning in public isn't so easy when you're buried by layers of engineering
- The hardest part of being a Junior Developer
- Don't want to fix that bug? Here are 6 things you can do instead
- Do what you say you're going to do
- Moving from problem adder to problem solver
- My lifestyle-centric career
- Don't remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place
- Australian slang that I have used with my long-suffering American colleagues
- Use a narrowed focus to complete big projects
- Remote work
- Track your time
- Just a big brain developer trying to be a grug brain
- GitHub Copilot, hedonic adaptation and developer tools
- Making my daily notes in the public workspace
- Full-stack? T-Shaped? Comb-Shaped? Developer or Engineer?
- We confuse visibility with competency
- I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
- The must-have utility apps I use every day on my Macbook Pro
- TIL: Resulting
- 5 years at CodePen: a reflection
- 2020 - Shadow and Light
- I haven't experienced imposter syndrome, and maybe you haven't either