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.

Declan Byrd

No basketball for me this week as the session was cancelled. Instead I used that evening looking at feed readers, eventually settling on the 14 day free trial of Feedbin. I've got a couple of feeds in there already and will look to add some more before I decide if I want to commit to paying for a subscription.

This week I set up a GitHub project to track all the things that I wanted to change about this site before the year ends. I made a good start and some of those changes went live this week. I decided not to redesign the whole site and instead chose to build on top of what I already have so that I don't spend the whole time procrastinating. I've been working on adding some more pages which are still in draft at the moment.

I spent some time playing Spider-man on the PS5 this week. I managed to finish the second act, completed all the side missions and most importantly I'm still enjoying the story.

I was getting an error with an obscure error message when I was trying to watch game replays on NBA League Pass this week. This error message wasn't documented in the FAQs or appearing in any search engine results. Eventually I tried logging out and logging back in again, which worked. I managed to watch a couple of quarters from some of Sunday's games.

The Christmas tree and decorations are now up. 🎄

What has changed on this site:

  • There's now navigation in the footer. At the bottom of each page is a set of links for all the pages on this site.
  • I removed the links to the colophon and the reading page from the header. These are now found in the footer of every page .
  • I removed the about section from the home page. I'm in the process of moving this to a new page.
  • I wrote some bad HTML before. The <h1> on each page is now the title of the page, and not my name.
  • I'm now highlighting the book I'm currently reading on the reading page.

What I've been reading:

What I've been watching: