Welcome to my Blog!

Here I talk about the things that I like that don't fit in with the theme of my main website. Topics will likely fall into the realm of nerdery, with hobbyist programming and web development, tech gadgets, and maybe video games and books.

2 March 2026

My Watchy Broke

I like coding. I like tinkering with hardware. I like a good gadget. Watchy is a great way for me to satisfy all of the above. But mine broke yesterday.

25 February 2026

Sites Directory

I made a small website to link my various projects together. The design is offensively simple - which I like.

20 February 2026

Light Mode Added

While researching accessibility, I read that dark mode can be bad for astigmatism. I have also noticed recently that in my peripheral vision, white text on dark backgrounds can appear to dance around and appears to vibrate. I tend to use dark mode on most apps on my phone, and also began to notice that when I'm tired, white text on dark background appears to vibrate in my direct vision, not just my peripheral vision.

16 February 2026

XSL Templates

I only found out about XSLT a year ago or so, when I was looking for a way to style my RSS feeds. I thought it was brilliant, and I set up some XSL templates for my feeds and sitemap. Not very long after, Chromium announced that it would be deprecating the technology.

5 February 2026

I got the Argon One Up

As soon as I heard that there was a laptop shell being developed for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, I went to the Kickstarter page and made my pledge. I've seen a few rug pulls on Kickstarter, but I've been using Argon's cases for my Raspberry Pi's and I trust their work and them as company, so I had no concerns there.