September 23rd, 2025
PC Upgrade 2025
In 2020 I jumped ship from Intel and upgraded my CPU to the Ryzen 7 5800X. And now, about five years later, it felt right for a new upgrade. I would also be switching case for the first time. MORE
June 15th, 2025
Creating playlist covers with the Spotify API
Spotify playlists start with a default cover image of the first four albums in the list. I like this feature, but it's a shame you can't customise which albums are used, unless you prioritise that over what you want to listen first. Being a developer, I thought it would be pretty easy to render four albums to a HTML canvas, export as jpeg, and upload that to Spotify. MORE
August 26th, 2023
Goodbye Jekyll, hello Astro
Last summer I became aware of Astro, a static site generator that promised a great developer experience and performance. I gave it a go and thought it was very promising, but it was missing a critical feature of my existing blog generator, Jekyll. This year, they released v2.0 with the feature, and I've been so impressed with the framework I had to migrate my whole blog! MORE
August 20th, 2022
Making the switch to Visual Studio Code
I've been using Sublime Text for web development since I left university, and I'm the only person I know who still does. I've gotten very comfortable with it, and the performance is excellent. Everything happens instantly, and it feels like there is absolutely no friction between me and the code - which is really what you want from a code editor. MORE
August 3rd, 2022
Don’t get into mechanical keyboards
It all started when my mouse broke, which I've had for about five years. The new model was fairly inexpensive so I went ahead and bought it, and was pretty happy. MORE
