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  • Wild Horses

    A couple of days after completing the London Marathon, I’ve had only a little time to process the experience. Not only is it an assault on your body, but also on your mind and senses for hours on end. I’m very thankful to those who have supported me through sponsorship, donations, or just words of encouragement. It was hard to get to the start line, but if you know me, then you will already know that nothing would have kept me from reaching the end.
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    23 Apr 2024
  • One Focus At A Time

    Over the last few months, it has been challenging to balance my interests and focus. Indeed, I have wasted a lot of time moving things around and messing with my websites, but along with this I have found it difficult to do more than one ‘thing’ at a time. There’s something to be said about putting all your effort one way, but I enjoy lots of different creative things and don’t like neglecting other areas.
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    19 Apr 2024
  • Statuslog Micro.blog Plugin

    Display your omg.lol Statuslog on a micro.blog page. Set Up Install the plugin from the official plugin page, or from Github by clicking design, edit theme, and then add new plugin. This will be available as an official plugin, but the submit page is currently broken. Call the plugin anything you wish, copy in the URL from the Github page, and click Add Plugin. Add Shortcode Add the shortcode to the page you wish this to show on, for example, I have placed this on my home page but you could do this wherever you like.
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    17 Apr 2024
  • New Plugin: Reply Count

    This plugin allows you to display how many replies your micro.blog posts have - it’s a vanity metric, nothing more. SetUp You can install the plugin from the plugins page, or feel free to get it from Github by clicking design, edit theme, and then add new plugin. Call the plugin anything you wish, copy in the URL from the Github page, and click Add Plugin. Add Partial Add the partial to the place you wish this to show, for example this may go in the meta information for the post.
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    16 Apr 2024
  • New Plugin: Search Partial

    In my work to recreate my 11ty blog on micro.blog I wanted a better search experience for readers, and also myself when searching for posts to link to. Manton did a great job with his search page plugin, so I adapted this to be able to appear on any page. This plugin for micro.blog will allow you to add a search bar to any page you wish. Set Up This plugin is available from the micro.
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    15 Apr 2024
  • A Short Trip To Skegness

    Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! It might have looked warm but the wind was really cold, but we went over to see some family and I wondered around with my Richo GRiiix as usual.
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    14 Apr 2024
  • Feeling Myself

    It was a mere few weeks ago when returning from a run that I thought I’d recovered myself. I felt renewed, full of energy and positivity, as I did before all these issues started. I couldn’t help but smile at the thought that all the stress and strain left by personal issues seemed to have gone, and the world seemed right again. Perhaps it is the fact I am reading The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, but I have begun to realise why I feel much better.
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    14 Apr 2024
  • We All Know Something Is Wrong

    Charlie Warzel with an interesting thread on Threads:

    the bigger thing is it touches on a gut feeling we all have: so much has changed technologically in a short amt of time! We know this connectivity is working on us, but it’s challenging to pin down exactly how.

    This thread was linked by this week’s Platformer that discusses the recent book by Jonathan Haidt on the links between anxiety and social media. Something I wrote about in passing a few days ago because it seems to be the talk of the media industry at the moment.

    Casey Newton interviewed Haidt on Hardfork a few weeks ago and followed up with some rebuttals the following episode. I thought the interview came across very well, but it’s important to never take those spouting research on podcasts at face value. Science isn’t always as straightforward as it can be presented as, especially when so many are covered in such a little time.

    Whoever you listen to regarding the research, Charlie rightly points that we all have this gut feeling that social media isn’t good for us. If you take a break from scrolling, even for a short period of time, you start to feel better. Our brains are simply not made for the sensory overload. It’s just a question of how much and what the effects actually are—something that may never be completely proven.

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    12 Apr 2024
  • What do you want?

    Sure, you can make the web boring, and it’s great for a bit. I experience renewed concentration levels and suddenly gain more inspiration for blog posts. There comes a point when you wonder why you ever use the social web, but it becomes apparent a little later on. There’s little point if you get nothing back. The rather depressing fact is, much of what I do online is because I like interacting with other people.
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    12 Apr 2024
  • Boring Street Photos

    There is a tendency for me to not publish many of the photos I take. A high proportion of them end up in the bin, and many others just sit doing nothing in my Lightroom catalogue. I constantly compare the results of my photos to other people that I see online and the conclusion more often than not is that mine or boring and don’t offer anything. With my break away from seeing other peoples work I made the decision to show the boring photos I took the other day just because I can.
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    11 Apr 2024
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