Content With Tag “Side Projects”

Listing 37 pieces of content with the “Side Projects” Tag.

  1. Week 71: Butt Text

    Aquarius Mercury 464 asks: 'how do i make this sadness go away'

    A week of office bribery, AI-based horoscopes, lots of good TV, late night karaoke, a visit to grandma, and a strong earworm. Read Week 71: Butt Text.

  2. Week 70: 🇺🇦

    A week of doom-scrolling, office conversations, friends moving away, raw throats, naked mouths, open-source software, and a new mattress. Read Week 70: 🇺🇦.

  3. Week 56: Patches

    A wall covered in 20 different green and neutral paint patches

    A week of expanding paint samples, nerding out with temperature and humidity sensors, feeling rough, and a bunch of new board games. Read Week 56: Patches.

  4. Year 1: Home

    A full year of weeknotes represented as a grid of thumbnails

    A year of big life changes, buying a flat, losing Tootsie, writing a lot, trying to keep up to date with technology, games, puzzles, and a lot of isolation. Read Year 1: Home.

  5. Week 52: Whitechapel

    Me with a shit-eating grin, opening my front door for the first time

    A week of moving house, fast internet, assembling furniture, lots of new shopping options, fake prosecco, and some fun hardware tinkering. Read Week 52: Whitechapel.

  6. Week 45: Coaching

    A week of catching up with people, playing with Architect, binge-watching Castle, career coaching, house news, and a night of Kalimotxo Blondes. Read Week 45: Coaching.

  7. Week 40: Edinburgh

    Rowan and Charlotte in blues, greens, and reds. Picture taken by a thermographic camera.

    A week of second vaccines, lots of fun pairing on a schema, a pint in The Sea Horse, a new Note post type, and the beginning of a relaxing week in Scotland. Read Week 40: Edinburgh.

  8. Week 37: No Sleep

    A week of more isolation, lots of trouble sleeping, playing Northgard with friends, and a whole lot of obsessing over Webmention. Read Week 37: No Sleep.

  9. Webmentions for your Static Site

    Response Icon

    A small dive into one of my new favourite web technologies: webmentions. This post talks through how I use them to make my static website feel more alive and social. Learn how to send and receive webmentions on your static website.

  10. Week 35: Deck Access

    Tootsie sat in his cat carrier peeking out at the park. We're sat on a checked blanked in the sun.

    A week of more mortgage hold-ups (sigh), giant bounties, lots of fun activities, obsessing over crosswords, and cats in parks. Read Week 35: Deck Access.

  11. Week 34: £137,000

    My dad standing amongst trees and holding me as a baby

    A week of thinking about dad, second flat viewings, paying London rent for 7 years, and making my static website searchable. Read Week 34: £137,000.

  12. Week 33: Fire Safety

    A screenshot of the "Responses" section of one of my blog posts, showing social interactions with the post and a form to submit your own mentions of the page.

    A week of house buying progress, new characters, sun and champagne with friends, and a lot of time spent learning how webmentions work. Read Week 33: Fire Safety.

  13. Week 8: Cancelled

    Five emoji horses lined up in Slack, waiting to race. Their new more Christmas-themed names are Seasonal Gold, Frosty December, Bethlehem Miracle, Party Star, and Happy Vixen.

    A week of cancelled plans, breakfast champagne, excessive TV, and a warming cascade of green ticks. Read Week 8: Cancelled.

  14. Week 6: Pointy Tree

    A Christmas tree, half of the height of it is above the topmost branches, it's very pointy

    A week of spare-time coding, some good reading, an increasingly boozy Christmas cake, and our exceptionally pointy tree Read Week 6: Pointy Tree.

  15. I Like RSS

    A screenshot of the Audrey home page, showing unread entries from my feeds

    An explainer on RSS and feed readers, a history of my reading habits over the years, and Audrey – a new open source project that will hopefully encourage me to read more. Read a bit about web feeds.

  16. Week 5: Aldovia

    Tootsie laying in his new favourite cardboard box. He's a black and white cat, with a very distinctive moustache. A discarded toy mouse is laying beside him

    A week of useful feedback, a new (and nearly finished) RSS reader, three research trips to Aldovia, and a box-obsessed cat. Read Week 5: Aldovia.

  17. Yeehaw!

    Four horse racing emoji race across the screen from right to left, reaching the finish line in turn

    Way back in March this year, early on in lockdown, I had a burst of inspiration and built a silly game which you can play on Slack. I wanted to talk through the process I go through on the rare occasion when I start a side project. Saddle up.