Y'know I just realised that if you focus on giving your kid opportunities to exceed you, they will likely outgrow you sooner than you were anticipating, in ways that you weren't expecting. You might end up raising and supporting a stranger who doesn't recognise you, and the feeling might be mutual, and it remains your responsibility to push that stranger forward. And that's what you want, if you're being truly selfless. Which, of course I am. And you should not resent that person for achieving what you wanted them to achieve, even if it means you essentially being left behind whilst being obligated to support them. Tricky.

What a great way to make your own life feel like an absolute waste of time. Have I mentioned; struggling.

Some more snaps to round out the longest month in the history of the planet, draw a line under it, and do something better from now on.

I learned some super cool stuff I should probably have known, but sometimes it's just easier to come up with your own tooling than it is to learn how to do things properly!

Does anyone have a contact at the EU? If they're going to legislate on cookies, I'm going to need them to step in on share-tracking. Spotify, YouTube, Facebook, probably others; when you share a link, they add an fbclid, si, whatever, unique ID to your link that they can use to track who you shared that link with and associate you with people even if you're not friends with them on that platform.

If you share links from these platforms with people, please strip that crap out before you share. iMessage has added an extremely unhelpful feature that automatically obfuscates these share-tracking links by loading previews immediately so you can't even see that you're sharing these links.

I hate technology and the people who create it. The internet had such potential and we let the scumbag normies in and they've ruined it.

It has taken me about two months to drop Google as my search engine and web browser. The reason it's taken so long is the alternatives suuuck. Oh my god they suck. I am now using DuckDuckGo as my search engine and the results are bafflingly stupid sometimes. You'll run a sea...

I think it's maybe a symptom of advancing age but I've been enjoying watching sports a lot lately. Between F1 and badminton, I spend a fair amount of time on this already, but apparently there's always time for more. I like having it on in the background, too. Something abou...

A few weeks' worth of snaps.

In a game where you can play as a pangolin, how are you going to play as anything other than a pangolin? Don't talk to me about axolotls; have you even seen a pangolin?

I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a while, and when I looked at Luke's latest homepage, and how much cool stuff he has going on, I had to make it.

Not complaining, it's actually quite sweet, but sometimes it'd be nice to move from where I'm standing, and not nearly trip over a dog.

It feels like this month has been about 500 years long; I can't quite believe it's finally over! I've spent a lot of time this month thinking about social media, how toxic it can be, and how to quit it properly (hint: how I did it was about as bad as you can do it!). I want ...

The last couple of times I've made pizza, it's been quite cold and the dough hasn't proved very nicely. This time was no different but still managed to get some OK pizzas out of it.

I saw the LeBron Witness 8s and liked the design of them, but didn't go for it. Glad I didn't because they just released these ridiculous ones and I love them.

Charlotte and I went to see The Horne Section live last night, but I found out about it too late and our seats were described as "obstructed view".

I've just used Cloudflare's Under Attack Mode for the first time, and it stopped a Denial of Service within about 10 seconds. I'm so impressed. I don't know why - Cloudflare's stuff usually Just Works, but I don't think I was expecting it to work that well/quickly.

We don't deserve Cloudflare. I don't even mind it being the basket I put all my eggs in.

The feature of iOS that I hate the most is developers being able to have web URLs open in a little browser within their app. I never want that. I don't want to have to log in in a little browser in your app. I want to use the browser I use which is actually already logged in at the URL I'm trying to open. I hope Apple gets rid of this one day because it makes me cross every single time.

I've seen this guy (I think it's a kestrel?) a lot lately but I never have the right lens on me. Today I brought it and was rewarded.

The way my brain handles and compartmentalises anxiety makes me a walking, self-sabotaging anxiety factory. This year I've been helping Sussex Badminton Juniors organise courts for their matches. This is everything I hate in a task - it's time-sensitive, there's money involv...

Spent pretty much every Sunday before I was 10, up before anyone else and watching cartoons.

Couple of weeks-worth of fluffies.

Having a puppy is bonkers. Why do they learn everything you wish they wouldn't immediately, but things you want them to learn take forever?! I gave Forest a treat before bed to get him into his crate three nights ago, and every night since then he thinks there's something delicious in my hand. But trying to get him to pee outside has taken two weeks! Dogs are annoying.

Took the day off to go up to London to see the F1 exhibition with one of the F1 dads.

I've wanted to do something like this for a while, and it only occurred to me to put it together with a newsletter-type thing when I was driving the other day. The idea is to do this on the first of every month, with a roundup of anything I found or was shared with me that I...

Meet Forest. He is a 15 week old Labrador puppy who now lives in our house and chews our feet.

I'm done with social media. I may live to regret it, but I've deleted my Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky (don't think I ever opened it once!). It's all such a manipulative time-sink, and I'm just done with it. Feels weird, but good.

Tabitha had to go to school today for an open day. Charlotte and I went for breakfast, then we all went for a walk. Making the most of the beautiful weather.

I've been a moderate fan of Death Cab for Cutie for a long time; have always said that I could make one great record of tracks I select from each of their albums. I prefer The Postal Service. This week, I'm not really sure why I say that. I've been going back through their d...

I know it's been ages since I built a new keyboard. I've been very excited about this one.

These went so well today. I love this dough when it goes well.

I found this via Chris Glass (where I find a good deal of my good stuff), and was pretty skeptical but it's very nice.