I've started to enjoy keeping lists. Lists of albums I've listened to this year, lists of films I watch, lists of stuff I need to buy and stuff I need to do (although TaskWarrior is starting to replace a lot of this).

Like the list of podcasts I have here …

I'm trying to set up my server so that I can edit blog posts locally and push them to a bare Git repository on my server, which will auto-publish the changes with Jekyll. I'm using a post-receive hook to do this.

I was getting a weird error that I was …

I decided that Drupal is too big and awkward for my blog, and I've been wanting to try something new. Drupal was eating up a lot of the RAM on my 512MB server, even after hours spent trying to optimise it. Also, the updates and module updates for Drupal 7 …

The English-language trailer for I Wish (Kiseki) has been released. This is the latest film from the extremely talented Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda

I'm not sure what the plot is (just what I got from the trailer) but going by Koreeda's previous films, it isn't going to be that important …

I had been thinking about how I wanted to get back into coding. I wanted to start committing regularly to Grail. But when? My week is already pretty full with work and college.

I'd been reading a lot about atypical coding hours on the likes of Hacker News. Apparently the …

If you still need more motivation for writing, documenting, or promoting Free Software, you probably have not been at FOSDEM.

- FSFE March Newsletter

I've been working on and off over the last few months on a really fun and interesting project called Grail by Droggl. It's an open-source engine for writing point-and-click adventure games.

I don't know if you've ever tried to find an engine for writing a 2D point-and-click adventure that's open-source …

I recently set up a second monitor on my machine.

Well really, I commandeered our Samsung tv. It seems to make sense to have both screens in the same place, since the couch is directly opposite both. The only small downside is that it might be distracting trying to work …