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I missed the end of june 2026 heatwave

After failing earlier this year, the blackbirds have a family.

As one ages, perhaps they realise more the importance of time and its utilisation but also I'm finding it hard(er) to maintain interest & drive feeling somewhat apathetic

I thought I had seen them flying in & out, nesting by the backdoor

Getting the weather into your daily journal

orgmode insert file link alteration to convert from absolute path

org-roam is your second brain but what if you wanted to host it, share somehow? Well this is a short description on how to use cosmascope to do just that.

Creating a map of journelly recorded entries

Keeping a journal in orgmode on IOS

The Triumph bobber, unsure whether to ride it or stare at it

Taking advantage of the nice weather to just sit with camera

Orgmode has multiple ways to achieve the same thing

An update on councils turning lights out.

Not keeping upto-date

Entertaining ride up a mountain

Home monitoring dashboards, transition from self programmed to HomeAssistant

Breakfast is a Sparrow?

Using orgmode outside of emacs

Parsing orgfiles for export ensuring only the files linked in specific tagged headings are copied to the export directory

Back into biking

Realtime data plotting using chartjs

Unusual bird(s) to be seen flying free in the UK

Using Windows snip tool to insert image into orgmode file

Close up photos of the regular garden visitors

Using the VL53L1X laser ToF sensor on a Rapsberry Pico

Specifying GPG program locations to allow en/decryption in emacs

The garden resident granted me an audience whilst trying out the new lense

Overcoming a different number of records in db per sensor

Starting to improve the home monitoring system with a pandas output to bokeh

A couple more photographs of the regular garden visitors

A new lense for bringing the far away closer

Opening links/attachments with native applications on MS Windows

The age old subject of the North v South, working class vs upper class as shown by COVID perhaps if viewed with a cynical perspective

Visualising light pollution.

Not enough darkness in the world

Uni-directional sync of outlook events to orgmode

Using python to conduct some analysis of MS Outlook emails

Identifying my IP address to set a property using elisp

Improving static site security with the help of the Mozilla Observatory

Getting the orgmode agenda output as a nice HTML page via the commandline

Getting the orgmode agenda output as HTML via the commandline

Using tasker scenese to create an orgmode experience

Unpopular opinion but COVID19 has been good for me!

Trial and tribulations of hugo & ox-hugo

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving

Quick & dirty python script to create ox-hugo clickable links