scottmallinson

  • I had the dried bean in my piece of the Roscón de Reyes. That means I have to buy next year’s, right?

  • The neighbourhood’s Cabalgata de Reyes or Parade of Kings, celebrated on the Twelfth Night, was somewhat underwhelming considering the significance Epiphany (Día de los Reyes Magos) receives here in Spain.

  • Literal has one of the best onboarding processes I’ve come across for a web app and a much better UI/UX than Goodreads.

    Looking to get into reading some more for 2023, starting with 1984.

  • A lunch break well spent. Managed to finally get webmentions working again by simply changing the microformat structure on my website. The output of microformat parsers can be a little challenging to interpret.

  • Looking at setting up a Pleroma instance for personal use as it seems lighter-weight than Mastodon and supports fediverse (OStatus and ActivityPub) standards.

  • Discover scottmallinson’s listening stats for Last.year (Last.fm)

    Check out scottmallinson’s 2022 in music on Last.fm

    • 10,099 scrobbles
    • 3,503 albums
    • 38% new artists
    • 67% new albums
    • 58% new tracks
    • 27 days, 11 hours listening time
    • 28 average daily scrobbles

    Sadly general listening stats are down compared to 2021. That needs rectifying.

  • Code Stats for 2022 (wakatime.com)
    • 581 hours coded
    • 3 hrs 2 mins daily average
    • Top languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, and Gherkin
  • Bring back personal blogging by Monique Judge (The Verge)

    As social media changes, Twitter slowly falls, and the landscape seems bleak, let’s take a moment and consider blogging. The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can help fix it.

    The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can fix it.

    Source: Bring back personal blogging – The Verge

    A (long and slow) project I intend to undertake in 2023 is to work on my website and to IndieWeb-ify it in an effort to move away from Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

  • Heading back to Barcelona having spent a couple of days in a great spa resort. Feeling relaxed and refreshed ahead of the new year.

  • I’ve received an early Christmas present. My Drobo 5D seems to have died. Thankfully everything is backed up, but now considering alternative storage solutions. I’ll likely go for a NAS rather than DAS.