Does Gear Matter?

Arun Venkatesan has lots of thoughts on photography gear: > The problem lies within the question itself. It's one of those inquiries that cannot be definitively answered with anything other than "it depends." It depends on who is using the gear. It depends on what they

Don't Forget The Effort

Ava writing about effort in their newsletter: > if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally

Displaying Limited Number Of Posts In 11ty

Another day, another tweak I'm making to my blog. Today's task, alongside sorting out the navigation  to display better, was adding some content to my Posts page. On my old blog, this page listed all the tags I have and a few examples of the posts

More People Should Write

James Somers encouraging more people to write: > More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. This is an old post, and reminiscent of many newer

A Few Shot From My Morning Walk

Really early on a Sunday morning, and with sore legs from a long run the day before I took my Richo GRiiix out in Grantham to see what I could find. The answer was not a lot, but I loved the cold air but nice low sunshine. This is where

Making a Blogroll

One of the great things about making your own website is that you can build new things. One of the worst things about making your own website is that you keep building new things. After web mentions and a way to publish easily, the next thing on my list was

Not Really Webmentions Part 2

In keeping with my ways, as soon as I published my rather long-winded method of pulling in pseudo webmentions, I knew I wasn’t satisfied. Functioning is one thing, but seeing all the code on a page and having trouble following it myself gave me a headache. I began working

Varied Writing Needed

I've been struggling to write about much else besides writing. Sure, it's occupying much of my time right now, but it isn't a subject I typically cover. This isn't a 'worry', but a post I read earlier highlighted factors that

My Blog Webmention Counts

This week I have been building parts of my blog, to learn and to get it to a point that I am happy with. A large part of this was webmentions, and thanks to a few excellent guides I got 90% of the the way their. With only a few

Doing The Work

For the last few weeks, I’ve fallen out with myself and the place I publish all of my things online. I don’t want to go into the specifics, but I turned back from the brink not that long ago and don’t want to again. As such, I&