Blog

• 2026-06-12

  Times are changing

  It's been a while since I last checked in, and it seems like a good time to catch up with what's been happening.

• 2025-12-15

  A self-hosted Expo EAS Mac Mini Builder

  It's been almost a month since my last blog post - sorry about that. I had the same problem I have with many of my projects: novelty factor gone. I said it before, but I'll say it again: I'm not stressing over this blog - I'll contribute as and when I want. Anyway, moving on.

• 2025-11-18

  AI is a sandpit

  Let me open by saying that I am not against AI. Used responsibly, AI represents a very useful tool not only to help automate repetitive tasks that require more than just regex (or maybe they could be done with regex, but it's probably a matter of feasibility over insanity).

• 2025-11-05

  Designed by engineers (uh oh!)

  If you've ever worked in software development, or maybe even as a non-technical manager in a big business, you've probably seen this.

• 2025-10-27

  The technicalities of blogging

  So, this blog's been up and running for a short while, and only had 2 posts. It's a very basic NextJS project, but I've already been keen to optimise the 'behind the scenes' element of it.

• 2025-10-20

  Self-hosting - vindicated (again)

  Today, there was an AWS outage at US-East-1. I'm not sure what the cause was - some say DNS, others say an issue at the DC.

• 2025-10-16

  Welcome to the blog

  I've mulled over creating a blog for a few months, but never got around to building it. I wanted to make a blog where everything is self-contained, with no need to deploy a database or run any server (besides literally anything that can serve HTML).