It will be now soon…
Work
Working 8 hours a week on Glow Blogs as product owner.
11 Nov 2025, doing the odd day of supply at Banton where I worked until retirement. So far covering classes for non class contact. Fun stuff, micro:bits, scratch, etc.
12 Jul 2025, just retired from teaching. Officially 11 August 2025, but I am on holiday till then.
Latest Toot
Post Link & Quote to RSS.chat: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/post-link-quote-to-rss-chat/
Last Book
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Read The Devils Footprints by John Burnside ★★★★☆
I am unsure how much to ‘believe’ of the main character’s narrative. He claims a childhood murder and the insanity of running away from his wife and life with a 14 year old girl who he thinks might be his daughter. The nasty side of a Scottish small town. Queasy, uncomfortable & involving with lovely prose.
Like the visit from the angel, or that moment of terror before cock-crow, a flicker of light revealed how, mostly, we are creatures of chance – how, when the devil has work to do, he makes it look like an accident, at least to begin with, in order to lure us further into his trap, protesting mildly, if at all, but willing accomplices at the last.
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I would come to where I was then: the dusk of a winter’s morning on the streets and the houses, dusk on the point, the starlight above the firth a perfect echo to the night boats coming in, and someone watching it all from an upper room, a man who might as easily have been someone else but, as it happened, was me: a quiet, solitary man in a world lit by new snow, leaning towards the window and touching the dark, empty pane, to feel the cool of something other than the night, remembering his fingers through the glass.
iNaturalist
In the last couple of years I stared adding photos of flora & fauna to iNaturalist, a citizen science project. Mostly as a way to id things. Here are the last 6:
Crucial Tracks
Crucial tracks is a nice music blogging tool, I’m not a huge music fan but this is fun. This is the last track I posted:
This Site
2025-07-20 Updated the way I display iNaturalist
Site Wishes
- Understand the IndieWeb a bit more
- work out the differences between the post kinds & IndieBlocks.
- Have a Block Theme that supports microformats 2 so I could use a block theme.
- Change theme
- Start to untangle from Jetpack
- Update my home page (just html not wordpress)