I was in Tallinn (Estonia) this week to visit my work colleagues. The team has grown since the last time we all met, so it was good to meet some of the newer members of the team in-person. I woke up on Tuesday to thick snow outside the hotel I was staying in. I managed to shuffle … | Continue reading
On Tuesday I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White, losing 69-56 against Worthing D&D Black. I didn't have a great game, but managed to make a three-point shot despite not seeing much of the ball. I had another basketball game on Thursday this week, losing 97-66 against Br … | Continue reading
On Tuesday, I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White against Eastbourne Neptunes. We had not won a league game all season prior to this game, yet we managed to win comfortably 109-48. Our defence really clicked in this game, and we limited Eastbourne to just 13 points in th … | Continue reading
Monday was a public holiday in the UK, so I used the additional day off work to finish the main story in Horizon Zero Dawn on the PlayStation. What a game, and a great story. I was surprised that I managed to spend 53 hours playing, which is almost double the time I spent playing … | Continue reading
A short work week this week, only working three days. I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription this week. I'd watched a combined 9 films or tv shows in the last twelve months on Prime video, and purchased three things, yet the renewal price is £95 for the year. Didn't feel value … | Continue reading
In my 2024 to-do list post I noted that I wanted to be able to change the colour theme to something other than a dark or light theme. I didn't really like the existing theme toggle and thought the lightbulb icon that I used didn't really represent the action of toggling the colou … | Continue reading
Added a new snippet to my VS Code snippets file today so that I can add an ISO 8601 date and time to the front-matter of my markdown files after I've finished writing. { "postDate": { "prefix": "now", "body": [ "$CURRENT_YEAR-$CURRENT_MONTH-${CURRENT_DATE}T$CURREN … | Continue reading
No basketball for me this week. I was due to have a game on Tuesday against Worthing D&D black, but the game was cancelled a couple of hours before it was supposed to start. Unfortunately the sports hall roof was leaking and the heavy rain meant that there were puddles underneath … | Continue reading
When I first started playing basketball I didn't think about my footwear. I turned up to my first session in a pair of generic running shoes and had a great time. Now when I play, I can't even think about playing in anything that aren't basketball shoes. They became a necessity a … | Continue reading
On Tuesday, I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White against Horsham Hawks where we lost 72-86. We never really recovered from the first quarter where we allowed Horsham to score 33 points and open up a 16 point lead. Despite the loss, I thought I had a good game and made a … | Continue reading
I first starting using Eleventy to build this site back in 2020 using version 0.10.0 and through a combination of the official documentation and other people's source code on GitHub, I managed to piece together the foundations for this site. Fast forward four years, and there hav … | Continue reading
More Horizon Zero Dawn on the PlayStation this week. I managed to progress the main story a bit and no longer have a level considerably higher than the suggested level for the story mission. My struggle now is that I don't know how much time a particular mission takes, so often a … | Continue reading
Not much of note this week, so the notes are a bit brief. On Thursday I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White against South Coast Outlaws in the Basketball Sussex plate competition. This was the first of a two legs, and we managed to come away with a win. I've been playing … | Continue reading
No basketball for me this week, as the schools are using the sports halls for exams. I've been playing a bit more of Horizon Zero Dawn on the PlayStation. There are a lot of distractions from the main story objectives so I haven't progressed the story very far. Still enjoying the … | Continue reading
In my 2024 to-do list I noted that I never introduce myself on my own website. I've tried to include an introduction in previous iterations but I never felt I was truly happy with it. I eventually opted to just remove it completely rather than iterate on it. In this post, I'm goi … | Continue reading
I had an email from IFTT this week that warned me that the webhook service that my Mastodon bot is using will be shut down by the 22nd February unless I switched to a paid plan. I switched, but not to the IFTT paid plan. My bot now uses mastofeed.org to send the latest item in an … | Continue reading
I was supposed to have a basketball game this week for Worthing D&D White against East Grinstead Flyers but the game was cancelled. We would have only travelled with six players and one was carrying an injury. I was looking forward to playing, but I was also grateful that I could … | Continue reading
On Monday, I had a basketball session in the evening. Not the best session I've had and I grew increasingly frustrated with how little the basketball was being shared amongst the team. I was more excited about the drive to and from basketball than the session itself. The driving … | Continue reading
On Monday, I was at the American Express stadium to watch Brighton draw 0-0 against Wolves. Not the most exciting game. On Tuesday, I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White in a 80-74 win against SE Tigers in the plate competition. I knew what the score was this time becaus … | Continue reading
On Tuesday, I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White against Brighton Cougars. Despite being on the losing side, I thought I had a good game, making two three-point shots. I made a start on one of the items in the 2024 to-do list, and I started writing about adding a more h … | Continue reading
What is this? Every time I try to write a post I find something on this site that distracts me and I start thinking about how I would change it. I also never document what it is that I got distracted by. I could have created a GitHub issue, or created a row in a spreadsheet, or b … | Continue reading
This was my first five day working week since the end of November. Definitely feeling drained at the end of this week. I had a basketball game this week, playing in Worthing D&D White's home loss to Worthing D&D Black. This game was rescheduled from December where the game got ca … | Continue reading
Reading I finished 26 books in 2023. That is very likely the largest number of books I've ever read over the course of a year. The biggest reason for the increase in the number of books I finished were Marvel "bookazines" which were short stories that didn't take long for me to r … | Continue reading
To celebrate my birthday, I went out for brunch to Oeuf café in Hove with my family. I had the cheesy onion frumpets (French toast battered crumpets) and a side of pigs in blankets. Very good food. I had one basketball session this week. I'm normally very rusty when I haven't pla … | Continue reading
The week started with Christmas day, which was very busy but it was nice to spend time with all the family. Most of this week was spent wondering what day of the week it actually was. Some days felt like they were skipped over, and some completely forgotten about. On Thursday, I … | Continue reading
On Tuesday, I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White against Worthing D&D Black. Unfortunately, the game was cancelled part-way through. The court became too slippery due to the condensation in the sports hall and in the interest of health of safety, the referees decided it … | Continue reading
This week was my last working week of the year. I'm looking forward to having a break until January. On Thursday, I was at the American Express stadium to watch Brighton win 1-0 against Marseille. Not the best game from a footballing perspective, but the scenes when Brighton scor … | Continue reading
I had a short work week this week, only working from Monday through to Wednesday. On Wednesday I was at the American Express stadium to watch Brighton win 2-1 against Brentford. A dominant win in the end, and it was great to see yet another teenager score for Brighton. I was back … | Continue reading
The 48th week of 2023, and the notes that I wrote for that week have provided a landmark moment. I've now written notes about what I've done each week for 100 consecutive weeks. I thought I'd write a bit about why I started them, what I've learnt, and what I'd do differently. Why … | Continue reading
On Tuesday, I played in Worthing D&D White's defeat to East Grinstead Flyers. I can't remember the score, but I'm pretty sure we lost by around 20. The Basketball Sussex website isn't updating the fixtures with the scores anymore either so I might have to update this post later i … | Continue reading
I was back to working a normal five day week this week. I had two basketball sessions this week. I was shooting the ball well in both sessions, making multiple three pointers. It was much harder to keep running in the second session and my knees were feeling sore the following mo … | Continue reading
I had another shorter working week, working only four days. There's a lot of context that I've missed while I was away from work and its been quite difficult to catch-up. This site ranked 6th overall in the Eleventy leaderboards that were updated this week. I always feel conflict … | Continue reading
Not a lengthy set of notes this week. I had a week where lots of things were going on but I'm choosing not to disclose all of them here. I had a short work week this week, working only Monday and Tuesday. I'm glad I decided to use some time off this week as it gave me a mental br … | Continue reading
Wednesday was a busy day. I had to attend an in-person meeting in London at 9 am, so I was up early to get the train. I collected my day travel car from the train station, only to find I had bought the travel card for the day before and so I had to purchase a new ticket. Then the … | Continue reading
The NBA season started this week. My League Pass subscription renewed so I was able to watch some of the games during the day, rather than at 1 or 3 in the morning. The hard part has been avoiding the scores and headlines but then it has given a good indication of which games are … | Continue reading
On Monday, I had my first basketball game of the season. I played in Worthing D&D White's 92-77 loss against Bognor GSD. The Basketball Sussex website hasn't updated the page with the score yet, but I'll link to it anyway in the hope that it gets updated later. I thought I played … | Continue reading
I was off work again this week, instead spending the working week in Antwerp (Belgium). Becka and I got the Eurostar from London St Pancras station to Brussels-Midi/Zuid station and then hopped onto another train from Brussels-Midi/Zuid station to Antwerp Central. The journey was … | Continue reading
I had one basketball session this week. A couple of weeks playing without a proper warm-up has come back to haunt me, as this week I lasted a couple of minutes before a pulled muscle in my right leg made things more challenging. Basketball Sussex released the fixtures for the men … | Continue reading
I had two basketball sessions this week. I was tired before the first session started and so I found it hard to mentally and physically keep up with the pace of the games. I thought I played much better in the second session but I felt very tired by the end. On Saturday I travell … | Continue reading
It's great that I can spend weeks building something that I think will help me to post more often to my website. Then spend 48 hours staring at a text area trying to work out what I want to post to my website. | Continue reading
I had two basketball sessions again this week. I found both sessions quite challenging and didn't play well in either. I was ready to go home after an hour in both sessions but convinced myself to stay for the full hour and a half. I was playing Star Wars Battlefront 2 on the PS5 … | Continue reading
This week, I got to fly out to Tallinn to meet my work colleagues in-person for the first time. Before this week, I'd only interacted with them virtually and I found the in-person interactions I had this week to be very valuable. One of the reasons for this, was that we placed as … | Continue reading
I started the week by playing for Worthing D&D White in a 90-41 win against Worthing D&D Ballers. This was the last game of the season before the playoffs so it was nice to finish with a win. I scored two three-pointers to finish the game with six points, though I didn't feel I s … | Continue reading