Today was our first full day in Da Nang and 3 more of our friends were on there way to meet us, from Ho Chi Min City (Saigon).
Exploring
We spent the morning exploring Da Nang, we discovered the because there are so many scooters in Vietnam car owners buy skirts for their ve...
Today was our last day in Cambodia, I'd finally written all the postcards from Cambodia but didn't have enough time to get to the post office, I asked the hotel staff if there was a post box near by and they said that they would make sure that they got posted for me, so I ho...
Add a privacy‑first appreciation button to your Hugo site: iine features, install steps, and partial template code. Improving small web interactivity.
Today was yet another tour, this time it was the one that I'd been most excited about since I had found out about it. Our tour guide today was Lucky, we were sat in the hotel reception and waiting for today's minibus to come and pick us up. Lucky came into the reception, int...
Postcards
Today we had a leisurely start, after a lie in, we went for breakfast at Asagohan Cafe. Then back at the hotel Susan went swimming and I walked back to the post office to get some postcards. No matter where I'd been in Siem Reap, including Angkor Wat there were no ...
Switching from WeeChat to Senpai for IRC bouncer, Mac CLI tools, links page on Black Friday Create Day, Hong Kong fire and bamboo scaffolding.
New month, new episode, a chat with Berliner Luisa Weiss about how she became a food blogger, how that changed her life, and how the Berlin food scene is changing.
https://eatthispodcast.com/berlin
Today we went to visit Angkor Wat, everyone, who had been before, told us that we should also visit the other temples and not just stick to Angkor Wat. So we decided to book a tour, our tour guide was called Mony, he was superb and had great knowledge of the area, having a g...
Lately, I have been writing a lot over on Gadget Wisdom, where I write more tech themed stories, about self-hosting. That isn’t exactly uncommon, it is a popular topic for many people.
But what does that do in relation to my longstanding practice of working on tools for my w...
Exploring Siem Reap
After a lie in this morning we found a coffee shop, Asagohan Cafe to have a leisurely brunch this place was great. We then went for a walk to explore the city.
Firstly we walked through Pub Street, which was much less brash and noisy during the day time a...
Last week I ran a meetup for writers on the web. During the session, I brought up the topic of distance in writing. [1] We explored the topic in various ways – the distance between writing and publishing, the distance between reader and writer, how distance varies. As I write...
I was thinking about a design for a web page yesterday that I wanted to build with a few illustrations. I remembered that there was a site with old-timey illustrations that were available in the public domain. I thought I have no idea how to find this website!
Today,, I was both surprised and delighted that the search query “old timey illustrations” allowed me to find the site, which I now know is called Old Book Illustrations. It is amazing that I can type in a query like “old timey illustrations” into a web search engine and find the page for which I am looking. The speed with which I found the website for which I was looking – and how a search engine found the page with my description "old timey" – brought a smile to my face.
Addendum: It looks like not all illustrations are public domain according to the Terms of Use, but this doesn't detract from the story :)
Every so often I open developer tools in the web browser and start tinkering with my website. I love experimenting with different design directions, not necessarily in pursuit of a complete design so much as fuelled by a sense of curiosity. What would it look like if I made m...
Yesterday was the IndieWeb’s Black Friday Create Day, an excuse, as if one were needed, to spend the day making rather than buying something. I had set myself the Create Day goal of finishing the first stage of the task I set myself in Berlin three weeks ago; to publish a st...
Today the majority of our friends got up early to go on a boat trip to the local islands and do some snorkeling, so it was a good job that we said our goodbyes last night. We went back to Kamala coffee house for breakfast and Sarah joined us. After breakfast we checked out o...
Today the IndieWeb community hosted a Create Day event in which participants were invited to make something on the web. The theme of the event was “Build Don't Buy”, an invitation to make something this Black Friday.
While I wasn’t sure what I wanted to make, I knew I wanted...
Our one day in Kamala beach Phuket was a day of relaxation and chilling. We go up late and then went for breakfast at Kamala Coffee House. After breakfast Susan went back to the hotel to use the gym and have a massage.
Kamala beach
Sarah and I went for a walk along to the en...
I just added “Polaroid” to the list of film formats to my focal length
equivalents site.
