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

TIL copy all tabs in iOS safari. On mac, I have a nice wee AppleScript that copies to the clipboard links to all my open tabs in Safari’s top window. I’ve always been a bit frustrated that I couldn’t do the same on iOS. But I can. Tab view then the ellipsis at the top right, copy n tabs.

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Last Book

  • Read: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★★ 📚

    But as for the likes of us, Ono, our contribution was always marginal. No one cares now what the likes of you and me once did. They look at us and see only two old men with their sticks.’ He smiled at me, then went on feeding the fish. ‘We’re the only ones who care now. The likes of you and me, Ono, when we look back over our lives and see they were flawed, we’re the only ones who care now.’

    Hazy recall, guilt, regret, memory, aging. The book itself floats, a little sadly, with some troubling feelings. Super.


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:

orange-tipCommon Carder BeeEuropean Comma

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:

  • "Like a Spark" by Rostam Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Post one of your favorite songs of the year so far. Astral Weeks echoes View John Johnston's Crucial Tracks profile

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)

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