Social media

Personally I’ve never thought of my life as so interesting that others take notice. I use social media more as a reminder to myself to keep moving forward, but hey, feel free to follow along.

For short happenings and thoughts I toot on Mastodon.

Having left X and no longer active, converting selected X twitters into posts on this site is technically detailed in this post.

Connecting the dynamic and server based Mastodon toots with this static Jekyll site places a few constraints on technolgies that can be used.
XTwitter has always been a mess, but increasingly so. So time to find something else that will work for my microblogging needs.

Pint of Science

Pint of Science is an annual world-wide festival where in a relaxed pub or cafe environment researchers present thier work to the general public. The 2023 round took place in...
I visited this museum in the grounds of Birmingham University at Edgbaston with a group from u3a. It’s easily reachable by train and a short walk and through its displays...

Garden walls

The back garden wall had been significantly leaning into my side for a long time, and figured if it’s been that way for decades it’s probably best left alone. I’m...
Twitter provides urls for accessing a timeline or to specific posts. These can be used to present twitter content within jekyll. Code for this site in held in git bitbucket...