Notes

The height of British men’s life: popping to M&S to buy a fancy shirt for a wedding.

First cycle home of the year where I get home and the sun still hasnt set. And first CFP sent off for the year. What a day.

Side project idea: build a Vivino competitor that’s just a lot simpler and more trendy wine wanker vibes

Sword making for anniversary was great. Oldfield Forge down in Gloucester are good eggs

I am just such a sucker for everything Read Only Memory publishes

vol.co/collections/hock-wah-yeo

Pulled the trigger on a pebble watch pre order. If that comes and then I can find a least dodgy as possible e-ink android phone I can be fully e-ink.

Pimoroni consistently make the coolest looking shit

New workplace quality barometer:

How many days until i add the cry_party emoji to the slack.

First time I’ve ever listened to Freddie’s solo stuff, and tbh it’s fucking great.

Fascinating Sunday afternoon playing around with Windsurf Agent AI stuff. Some times it was like reading my mind and being magic, and then it would completely lose the plot and forgot stuff it’s already done and miss off previous requirements.

Ok just about squeaked in a second blog post before the end of the quarter.

Just some thoughts about the journey I’ve been on to try and find the perfect eink device/devices.

joehart.co.uk/blogs/2025-03-22

Ok I’ve settled on an old M1 Mac mini as the go go brains of the home server, synology nas for storage. Docker everything. Migrate stuff over from my current raspberry pi.

Just waiting for the Mac mini to be delivered now.

My kingdom for the hardware of the Remarkable Pro (Gallery 3 eink display) but with support for Readwise Reader and Newspaper Apps.

Ooof my knees. I guess this is retro tech nowadays.

It’s finally happened. I’ve ordered a proper NAS. Feels like a big moment graduating from “raspberry pi with a dodgy old external hard drive plugged in" to “raspberry pi connected over the network to an overpriced box of hard drives”

AI tools I actually want that I haven’t managed to get working on existing tools:

• Here is a giant PR i have, please split it into N smaller PRs that are easier for my team to review.
• I want to turn this typescript setting on e.g. no unsafe array access, turn it on and fix all the errors

This was just such a vibe to wind down with last night
youtu.be/8bLinctYcno?si=nbOMs0

Disclaimer: this pun only works with terrible pronunciation.

Why did the chickpea call in sick to work? Because he falafel. (read as felt awful but in a kind of slurring way like felawful).

Finally, 25 years too late I have finally finished Final Fantasy 9. What a game.

Been using tailwind at work for the first time and am still in the “grumpy old man doesn’t understand why the kids love this" phase of using it.

perhaps that will change, perhaps not.