A combination of Textpattern, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, Ghost, and at least two different hand-rolled solutions. I'm now regretting being so fickle when it came to blog platforms...

A month's worth of weekend #RaspberryPi projects:

Added Webmentions to my blog, with a little help from Claude Code. Next up on the roadmap, I want to see whether I can do what @nathanpitman.com has done, and scrape 20+ years of historical blog posts from archive.org. #indieweb

I'd never even considered getting AI to reconstruct my blog post history from archive.org, that's a brilliant idea.

Another weekend, another tweak to my #RaspberryPi setup. This time I moved the Pi and camera downstairs to give it a better view of the front of the house (and get it out of the hot sun), and added motion detection triggering a Discord bot DM.

Found a stack of mid-90s Melody Maker and NME back issues in an antique shop. Remember poring over the "looking for bandmates" ads in the back pages when we first moved down to London to make it big.

I haven't even been to my first gig of 2026 and I'm already looking at shows to go to in 2027 (for the sole MONO show in the UK next February).

Just discovered that early 90s Aussie miniseries Brides of Christ is on YouTube in full - I remember really enjoying it at the time, hopefully it stands up to a rewatch.

Added a third service to my #RaspberryPi (on top of network adblocking and a Discord bot); it's now streaming video of the approach to the house to a web page, mostly so I don't miss the postman when I've got my music on.

Spent the weekend playing with #RaspberryPi and #ClaudeCode (since I've long since forgotten any Python I once knew). I now have a Discord bot running on my Pi that keeps an eye on my [Steam/Epic/GOG/EA/Ubisoft] games libraries, and will recommend a random !game (with IGDB description) when asked.

Using Pi-hole to block network ad traffic doesn't feel all that valuable, until you fire up a mobile game and it starts blocking 1 in every 3 requests. #raspberrypi

Bought myself a Raspberry Pi 5 as a gateway to experimenting with hardware and home networking.

Step 1: Drinking wine and watching probably too many YouTube videos.

Watching a film on DVD like some kind of prehistoric caveman. Genuinely can't remember the last time I did this.

Giving big Enigma of Amigara Fault vibes

Today it is 25 years since my wife and I's first ever date. We were serenaded by a drunk English bloke in a Guinness hat. #StPatricksDay

Metric tour dates, finally! And on a Saturday too. Now we just have to hope the ridiculously over-complicated presale website doesn't die as soon as more than 10 people use it at once.

Picking up every free game giveaway going has left me with a library of 1,200+ and no idea what to play. Going to let a random spinner decide, a la @kimjustice.bsky.social's streams - first out of the gate is ... Tandem: A Tale Of Shadows.

#BringBackFirefly

I can see why so many of the AI cheerleaders advocate for running multiple sessions at the same time, while you sit back and just make decisions and unblock issues.

It's because if you just confine yourself to a single session, it's incredibly boring.

Massively unimpressed with the free version of Claude. Connectors don't work at all.

Been vibe coding again. It's shit.

matthewpennell.com/blog/on-vibe...

I have good news and bad news for you, Mr Van Winkle

The original 1996 Japanese version of Shall We Dance? (not the Richard Gere remake).

Started rewatching The Expanse from the beginning, having never got beyond season 1 before. Hopefully I'll finish it right around the time the new game comes out.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Sunburned In London (Official Audio) YouTube video by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

New Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever single. Could there be a new album coming later this year?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYY9...

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This should help explain everything: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

I get this a lot from my kids, although to be fair I did have an iMac for most of their childhoods, so "the screen is the computer" was literally true for them.

Oopsie! I've been parking in a free street right by Hendon tube for the last 25 years, straight on the Northern line. Keep expecting them to put up restricted parking signs, but so far my luck has held.

Fingers crossed for a UK tour later in the year.

I'm doing some research into MOOCs today, and I hadn't realised that Coursera got rid of the option to audit their courses for free at the end of 2024. Shame - I really enjoyed the free courses I did with them years ago.