Writing

It’s always fun looking back at things I’ve done in the past, especially if they’re neatly logged or visualised in some way. Robert Birming commented on the same feeling he gets when looking at his blog calendar, or pins on a map based on completed house inspections he’s done. Reading his post inspired me to finally write this one. The front page of my website has the recent activity from some of these logs: blogs I’ve written, anime I’ve watched and beer I’ve checked in. Their main goal is to have a quick view of what’s been going on in the last few weeks, but behind each panel is a history of data I can view to see how far I’ve come. Robert calls this being nowstalgic. Read more...

Over the last two years, I have been blogging consistently here; this was something I last achieved in the early 2010s. Around 2011, I had a blog where I posted commentary on consumer technology news and the occasional tutorial/guide, which was used on and off until 2014 and is now lost to the internet. In 2016, I pieced together a portfolio website to have somewhere to link to when applying for jobs. I wanted to include a blog on the site, but I couldn’t muster up the creativity to write anything. Nothing I wanted to say was novel or worth sharing, so that part of the site was left empty for a while. Read more...