My youngest has pneumonia and so my wife is taking her into hospital. A few days of single dad-ing with my other two. Full time single parents have my upmost respect.

This is the exact loop in thinking I go through whenever I consider moving my newsletter off substack. “Helpfully”, my sketchy ideas website also seems to be down. So maybe this is the push I need to move platform (Is that Ghost whispering my name I hear?)

Time to say goodbye to the UK again. It was a great at trip and very tiring. Looking forward to a good nights sleep (but it won’t be tonight as we get in at 23:55 to the airport!

I think I’m going to change sketchyideas to the new default WordPress theme. I don’t really see the advantages of a custom theme with the way full site editing is going and the typical impact on load speed. But if you know another good theme, let me know.

How does one get a button with “reply on micro.blog” at the bottom of each post? I assume I need to edit my template but I’ve seen some that are next to a “reply on mastodon” but there’s no plugin for that.

Dog vs Apple Pencil.

Today I learned there’s a raspberry pi store in Cambridge. I’ve just managed to avoid buying one. For now.

In Cambridge today to see some old friends.

I failed my reading goal last year. I’m not sure if I missed tracking some books I read, but I still know I read less than the last few years combined. I’m not 100% sure why but tiredness in the evenings, 3 kids and some issues with brain fog at the start of the year didn’t help. I’m hoping to change

A little late on my newsletter this week but I wanted a bit more time to get some things in order. I hope you enjoy (It’s about goals, yearly themes and more).