As for of New HL(tm), I’ve been playing around with Web Components to try and get some of that framework feeling, without loading 100kb+ of js.

I’ve been on a run of tech posts recently so I want to do something totally different. I’m currently pulling together loads of old films, books, and games for the new site and wanted to make a Top 10 list but realised I don’t actually care about ratings. I’ve sunk more time in a mid-tier game than many best-of winners. So I want to make just a random list of games that are “sticky”, ones that have held my focus and/or my memories. They’re more ordered by when I first played them but then again, maybe not.

I’m slowly pulling data into the new HybridLogic. In the process I’m realising a. how many other services I use, even after culling them a few years ago, and b. how many services now are complete and utter data prisons.

2005-05-22. That’s the timestamp in the first docblock on digi27.com. Feels like an eternity ago. The site is… bad. Twenty year younger me was not a good coder (so some things don’t change). But as part of the fallout from Apple killing Flash, Digi27 has kind of been pointless for a while.

I’m currently berries-deep in the new version of this site. It’s not perfect. It’ll never be perfect. But I’ve wanted to make a new version for over ten years now. In the meantime, to actually make sure I’m using it, I’ve added a little micro-blog updates feed to it.

It’s what Twitter used to be. Back when the textarea had a prefix of “Currently…”. It feels nice to be journalling again as well. Seeing tweets from 2006, recalling days. I’m going to miss the five plus years I didn’t have any of that. Stupid OSINT.

As for when it’ll be done: never. As for when I’ll swap this old WordPress thing over to it: by 8th June latest.

It’s four years since the first commit to Work Project #2. With over 10,000 commits, thousands of deployments, a couple of hours downtime, and lots of paying customers (please more though), I wanted to take a second to look back on all of the many decisions. What was good, what was crap. Do again, change next time?

16 years ago I took on my first “proper” job. I’d done manual labour, I’d made websites for friends and family, but 16 years ago I got chatting to someone over Twitter DMs (this brand new feature) followed by CoD4 lobbies and started working with them.

Many years ago, I had to make a website. Slightly different to the normal websites we were churning out. It would be used in 5,000 locations, across 160 countries, by about 30 million people (at the time) a month. It showed weather, local news, and more content specific to each location. At the time Amazon EC2 was two years old, scaling was a still unsolved problem, and we had to make this thing bulletproof.

Following on from some others, here’s a list of what I’m using on my Mac in 2023. Main focus is web dev tasks.