The Journal
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100 consecutive weeks of notes
Why I write week notes, what I've learned from writing 100 consecutive weeks of notes, and what I'd do differently.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 48
Notes for the 48th week of 2023.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 47
Notes for the 47th week of 2023.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 46
Notes for the 46th week of 2023.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 45
Notes for the 45th week of 2023.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 44
An attempt at commuting, and a work social event.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 43
Last level of video games, NBA spoilers, and two football games.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 42
First basketball game of the new season.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 41
A week in Antwerp.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 40
Football in Marseille, and dreaming in colour.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 39
Notes for the 39th week of 2023.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 38
Europa League football.
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Arrived for the first game of the 2022/23 Brighton and Hove Albion European tour.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 37
Publishing notes via API, and rewriting my content management website.
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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.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 36
Warm weather, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 35
Murdle, and PageCrypt.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 34
Working in Tallinn and delayed flights.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 33
Micropub, and a first away game of the Premier League season.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 32
Return of Premier League football, Barbie, and LEGO video games.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 31
Covid, sick days, and Star Wars Battlefront 2.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 30
Royal Blood on Brighton beach, and rainy dog walks.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 29
Tired.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 28
Back playing basketball, and short domain names.
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Auto-fill frontmatter with data from an API
Writing Node.js scripts to auto-fill frontmatter with the details about a book from an API.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 27
API requests at build time and Fantasy Premier League
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Today I learned that "BFF" also stands for "Backend for Frontend" and not just "Best Friends Forever". I thought it was strange that APIs were being described by their friendship levels.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 26
Less procrastinating, and decreasing the difficulty for boss fights.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 25
New font, styled RSS feeds, and container queries.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 24
Online-only single-player games, and trying to recall what I did this week.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 23
Back to work, a complete Mastodon archive, and a tower fan.
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I just released version 0.2.0 of eleventy-plugin-mastoarchive.
You can now show all your public Mastodon posts in your #eleventy site.
If you were starting your archive with previous versions, the archive started with your 40 most recent posts.
In 0.2.0, the archive starts with your first Mastodon post.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/eleventy-plugin-mastoarchive/v/0.2.0
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2023 Week Notes - Week 22
Holiday in San Sebastián, a now page, and scraping.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 21
Airtable barcode scanning, and Europa League football.
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Very insightful listening to Paul Barber (Brighton CEO) talk about the performance culture within the football club and how they openly talk about succession plans.
https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/podcast/paulbarber
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2023 Week Notes - Week 20
Bone conducting headphones and tonsilitis.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 19
Running, Tears of the Kingdom, and an end to the basketball season.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 18
Frumpets, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and a Basketball Sussex play-off game.
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Found a wall lizard sunbathing in the garden this afternoon.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 17
Trip to Tallinn, and playing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 16
FA Cup semi finals, and custom emojis.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 15
Design tokens, tap takeover, NBA Playoffs.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 14
Mastodon bots, raindrop bookmarks, deleting code.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 13
Undocumented RSS feeds, and unlocking multiplayer racing games on the PlayStation.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 12
Time off, bullet journals, and skipping games in a series.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 11
Fatboy Slim and FA Cup football.
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"The band of the 90's, if you want to call him a band because the one-band name" #FatboySlim
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2023 Week Notes - Week 10
Two football games and comics from the library.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 9
tldr: I played on the PlayStation and went to the football.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 8
eleventy-plugin-mastoarchive, offices in London, and Isle of Arrows.
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I previously used a global data file to fetch all my public Mastodon posts so I could display them on my website.
Now, that same code is available as an #11ty plugin that exposes all your public Mastodon posts as a global data object.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 7
Bruno's birthday, Ant-man, VS Code snippets.
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Using variables in VS Code snippets
Writing custom VS Code snippets to auto-fill front matter in markdown files.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 6
Upgrading to Eleventy 2.0, frozen kneecaps, and going to the cinema to avoid the football scores.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 5
Switching off automated tweets, Brighton v Bournemouth, and Internet for the People.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 4
Comics, FA Cup football, and another basketball game.
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Dear the internet,
Please settle an argument about the best 5 pasta shapes. And why spaghetti is top of the list.
Thanks,
Declan.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 3
A basketball game in Bognor and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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2023 Week Notes - Week 2
Back playing basketball and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Brighton were absolutely magnificent today. A world class performance from what is starting to look like a world class team. #bhafc
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2023 Week Notes - Week 1
Back to work and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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What did Declan do in 2022?
One of those year in review posts that summarises what I did in 2022.
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Week Notes - Week 52
Seeing in the new year and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 51
Making sausage rolls, Christmas, and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 50
Wrapping up work for the year and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 49
Making my desk a nicer place to work at and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Sunday afternoon in the pub with Bruno
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I really wish there was a better way for shops to send you a digital receipt than having the shop assistant enter your email address at the till.
I don't want to have to shout my email address just so the shop assistant can hear me in a busy shop.
I get that there are benefits to going paperless, but in this case I find myself asking for a paper receipt more often.
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Week Notes - Week 48
Looking at feed readers, working on this site and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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I just had to "fix" my heroes advent calendar because I wasn't able to read most of the numbers and couldn't even find the first door.
Before/after pictures added for context.
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Week Notes - Week 47
Another basketball game and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 46
A trip to London, my first basketball game of the season and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 45
Getting nostalgic about basketball video games and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Very frustrating when some players'minds are already concentrated on playing in the world cup and are trying to do the bare minimum to make it through the game.
Didn't deserve any points today.
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Week Notes - Week 44
A trip to Wolverhampton and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Absolutely brilliant afternoon watching Brighton win away at Wolves.
#football #soccer #bhafc #premierLeague
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As more people join indieweb.social, the costs associated with running it increase. With that in mind I'm now making a monthly contribution to help cover some of the costs.
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Week Notes - Week 43
Celebrating four goals at the football and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Best half of football I've seen us play under Roberto De Zerbi. Every player is giving their all at the moment and Graham Potter is learning the hard way that the grass isn't always greener. #bhafc
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Week Notes - Week 42
Playing Spider-man on the PlayStation and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 41
I wrote something and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Building a Mastodon post archive
How I PESOS my Mastodon posts to my site to create an archive of my own social media feed.
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Week Notes - Week 40
Another mastodon migration and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 39
Starting a new job and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 38
A trip to Amsterdam and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 37
My last day at Honeywell and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 36
Experimenting with Pipedream, moving my Mastodon account and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 35
Watching a seven goal football game and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 34
Two Brighton games and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 33
Watching Brighton play away at West Ham and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 32
First trip to The AMEX this season and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 31
Performance fixes for this site and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 30
Pre-season football at The Amex, a trip to the office and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 29
Fatboy Slim on Brighton beach, PESOS and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 28
A new laptop, first basketball session of pre-season and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 27
A holiday in Bude and what else I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 26
Reaching the half way point in 2022, here is what I've been up to over the last seven days.
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Week Notes - Week 25
Notes for the 25th week of 2022.
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Week Notes - Week 24
Limiting my consumption of social media and a sales conference.
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Week Notes - Week 23
A new format to my week notes and an improved breakdown of what I've been up to over the last seven days.
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What I think about when I think about writing a blog post
A non-definitive collection of things that cross my mind when I think about writing a new entry (blog post) for the journal section of my website.
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Week 22
A week off work and Dave Made a Maze.
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Week 21
Everything Everywhere All at Once and thoughts on Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+.
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Week 20
Basketball Sussex men's cup final and a side project.
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Week 19
Algae as a power source and ideas about IndieWeb publishing.
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Week 18
Two cinema trips, BHAFC run riot and Microformats2.
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Week 17
Toots, an unexpected migration and the final basketball league game of the season.
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Week 16
End sewage pollution protest, my development day and Worthing D&D win the league title.
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Week 15
Mastodon and virtual power plants.
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Week 14
Basketball Sussex Men's cup semi-final, Lego Star Wars and content syndication.
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Week 13
Covid, indieweb and a brag folder.
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Week 12
A quarter-final game in the Basketball Sussex cup and Royal Blood.
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Week 11
Development day, version 2 of this site and assessing interviews.
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Week 10
Two basketball games, how I built the now playing section on the home page and another home defeat for Brighton.
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Get your last played Spotify track using Netlify Graph
How I used Netlify Graph to generate a serverless function that would fetch my last played track from Spotify while handling authentication.
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Week 9
Faster builds, I built a thing and an away win for Worthing D&D.
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Week 8
Sunset photos, tracking my reading and even more sunset photos.
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Week 7
A work in progress, Bruno's birthday and a football game I'd rather forget about.
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Week 6
Started a book, RAW photos and gaming.
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Week 5
Fast websites, React native and FA cup football.
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Week 4
Eleventy 1.0, Humankind and a basketball game.
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Week 3
Cloud gaming, an away day and a trip to the office.
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Week 2
The Eternals, Lancing Ring and a finished book.
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Week 1
I started writing week notes, finished a book and returned to work after the Christmas break.
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Checking conditions using Array.some()
Today I leant how to use the some() method on an array to check if user input contained a list of keywords.
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Syndicating blog posts from an 11ty site to Dev.to using RSS
How I syndicate the blog posts from my website to Dev.to by providing an RSS feed for my journal page.
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Responsive sizing with CSS
How to use css functions such as min() to create a fallback for clamp()
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My experience with Google foo.bar
How I came across the invite only coding challenge created by Google to hire developers.