I had the dried bean in my piece of the Roscón de Reyes. That means I have to buy next year’s, right?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Looking at setting up a Pleroma instance for personal use as it seems lighter-weight than Mastodon and supports fediverse (OStatus and ActivityPub) standards.
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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.
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Code Stats for 2022 (wakatime.com) - 581 hours coded
- 3 hrs 2 mins daily average
- Top languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, and Gherkin
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Bring back personal blogging by (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.
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Heading back to Barcelona having spent a couple of days in a great spa resort. Feeling relaxed and refreshed ahead of the new year.
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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.