Over the last few months, I have been thinking a lot about change. What it means to change as a person, and have change happen to you. Recently I bought a book about change. Made it through 20 odd pages before I decided it wasn’t for me. I don’
I have liked taking photos since I was a wee’un. Growing up with many disposable cameras in 90’s, digital for the next 20 years and then recently going back to good old analog photos in my 30’s. I love just pressing that shutter button and producing a
One of the things people pause to ask me when I tell my story about the aortic dissection is “Wait they just let you go after the A&E visit?”.
I can say now, now the year has passed, that 2024 was better than 2023. But it still strongly ranks in the top 3 worst years of my life. This post is a personal check-in for the start of 2025. A single blog post to put a retrospective of 2024
Last month was the Half-Life 2 20th anniversary (November 16th). This post is a boring retelling of how I played some games on a computer (who cares). But I wanted to write this, before one day I forget some of the details. And I get to talk about Team Fortress
It’s weird, I imagine the first question people ask their doctor when getting a medical diagnosis is how much time they have left. For me it was actually the second, after “It’s that bad huh?”. It’s also the first question I get asked when I tell people
In this post are a few mini-posts I’ve written in the last couple of months. They aren’t about anything in particular, and I think they are less interesting than full blown heart surgery posts. I’m treating this as a traditional online blog, full of thoughts someone might
When I was a teenager, I think I hated the idea of running. There was just always something cooler about riding a bike, or playing sport. Or actually playing something like playing tennis or badminton, a game. The thought of doing running leisurely felt weird to me. Anybody can run
Alt title: real world thoughts of the On-X Aortic Prosthesis after 11 months Content warning for this post: Suicide and self-harm. I’ve had a lot of thoughts over the last 11 months. They’ve been leaving a trail on my notes apps as I write them down whilst on
Talking about remembering, or not
You say the ocean's rising like I give a shit You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did - Bo Burnham, All Eyes On Me For the last 3-4 years I have eaten mostly vegan. I would eat meat on occasion, but I was
Alright, so you go through some terrible, awful, huge event in your life. It upends everything about the way you were living and those you live with, for months. For some people it might be years. For me it was emergency heart surgery, into months of hospital appointments. Yeah, it&
So I’ve had some thoughts, 6 months after surgery to repair a type A aortic dissection. I’m mainly posting this to get thoughts down to paper, so don’t worry about reading all the depressing stuff. I promise I’ll put something positive at the end You’re
On August 30th at around half 8 in the morning, I got a call from a cardiologist. A week earlier I had been sent for a non-urgent exploration CT scan. We had been trying to find out what was wrong with my body, after a few months of just not
(Note I bumped this back in my blog, because technical posts like this didn't quite fit, hence the published date being wrong! It was originally published April 2024) A heads up for this rambling blog post. After surgery, the thing I’m struggling with most aside from the
It has been exactly 5 years since I first entered the Software Dev industry after graduating (at least, according to all the people who decide my job title tell me). I'm now also on the eve of starting my fourth dev job since the start of 2022. 18
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Maybe this is the start of a late 20's crisis
Lets talk about Pokemon Home, and a Pokemon API
Toys LEGO After the Gundam build I thought about buying more Gunpla models (and I think in the future I absolutely will), but I wanted to bring it a bit back to basics and looked at LEGO. A year or two ago I got the LEGO Saturn V my brother,
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Movies John Wick 3 Action movies are one of my favourite genres of film. And the "pure" action films, where there are fewer cuts, more personal close quarters fights, are my favourite within in that genre. Rumble in the Bronx is one of my favourite films of all
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Dev Redesigning a Website Part 1 - Starting from a blank slate At work we use this open-source support ticketing system called Brimir. It is pretty small, focused, and now no longer supported by the company who created it, Ivaldi. Unfortunately, they no longer officially support it. So things like
I don't know what is up with that title. This post is extra ramble-y. I'm going to do another blog post at some point this week about the process of redesigning a website, but this is a non-programming blog post. Food Trying to be Vegan It&
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Lets talk about my new portfolio website, and how sick and awful Destiny 2 is
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Hey, this is my blog. I am going to try and do weekly compilations of thought pieces of things I have experiences recently. Sometimes I won't say much worthwhile, but by the end of the year I struggle to remember everything that I have done. So I'