Blogging

Article — 26 September 2025 — 1,247 words

Autonomy, independence, federation, WordPress and concrete

I have had to make some behind-the-scenes changes to this website. In the process, I am planning to make it more interoperable with the fediverse and indieweb standards — and I am sticking with WordPress.

Article — 30 September 2024 — 583 words

Another fresh start

Personal — Web

I have decided to refresh my approach to blogging (yet again). There are a couple of main drivers for this.

Article — 2 January 2024 — 1,225 words

Busi-ness and blogging in 2024

Personal — Technology — Web

A busier life, and recent events on the internet, mean a new direction for my blog.

Article — 30 December 2022 — 1,261 words

20 years of blogging

Personal — Technology — Web

Today marks the 20th anniversary of my first blog post. Blogging is important to me, but it has seen many changes. The online publishing ecosystem is having a moment right now. So what’s next?

Article — 4 January 2020 — 1,626 words

2019/2020

Cycling — Edinburgh — Personal — Running

Christmas and new year is a time for reflection for most people. It never seems to work that way for me.

Article — 1 January 2019 — 938 words

A year of blogging daily

Personal — Web

Last year I began a routine of publishing shorter posts on an almost-daily basis. Today marks a full year of blogging on a daily basis. It’s also the day I’ll stop posting each day.

Article — 12 November 2018 — 740 words

Shifting focus

Personal — Web

When it came to blogging, the tail was wagging the dog. So I have changed my routine.

Article — 1 November 2018 — 466 words

So it happened — Flickr has got rid of almost-unlimited storage

Photography — Technology

This week, Flickr announced that free accounts will be limited to only 1,000 photos. It’s another warning that we can’t rely on externally-run content silos.

Article — 12 July 2018 — 822 words

The web’s bloated middle

Media — Web

Website publishers have been incentivised to do exactly the opposite of what could have made the web so great.

Article — 25 February 2018 — 1,059 words

A brutal redesign

Design — Personal — Web

When I started to experiment with different ways of blogging, I realised what I was doing was a bit off. So I decided to redesign the blog.

Article — 2 January 2018 — 1,303 words

Happy new year 2018 — reflections and resolutions

Cycling — Personal — Technology — Travel

2017 is a year that showed that I have a lot to be grateful for. But even though I don’t normally set new year’s resolutions, I am setting myself three broad goals for 2018.

Article — 1 October 2017 — 1,208 words

Why it’s time to reclaim our digital lives

Personal — Web

The more we come to understand about the big social media networks’ impact on society, the less appealing it becomes. It’s time we stopped letting them control our digital lives. This is why I will start blogging again.