Well, today marks 19 years since I finished chemo. Time flies and all that. Feels weird this year, especially with my current health issues. Next year, I’ll have made 20 years, which is pretty good going for someone who was diagnosed with Stage IVb cancer. I’m very lucky to still be here.

Had some of my daughter’s friends and their families over last night, the kids were fascinated by the 3D printer, they asked to see it in action, so I printed them off some quick fidget toys, and they were hypnotised! 😃 to be fair, so were some of the parents!

Been quiet of late because I was diagnosed with high blood a couple of weeks ago. No obvious cause, could be hereditary, now on meds which seem to have it at least partially under control. Loved it when they asked if I was active, my reply was “I ran for 11 hours at the weekend” 😂

And day eight is a sneak peak at the new orchestration features coming in 2026 from Lasse 24days.in/umbraco-cms/... keep up the good work, I’m loving the articles so far!

Day seven is a great article by Corey about communication 24days.in/umbraco-cms/...

Day six is Busra talking about different ways of doing headless 24days.in/umbraco-cms/...

And day five is an article about the V17 release by Jen! 24days.in/umbraco-cms/...

And day four is a very handy article from Jensen at Skrift on writing technical articles! 24days.in/umbraco-cms/...

Bit of catching up to do, as I was away for my Mum’s birthday! Day three brings a great article from Owain! 24days.in/umbraco-cms/...

How many of my pals on here know the significance of this humble building to the UK nerd community? 😂

And day 2 on 24 days! 24days.in/umbraco-cms/... awesome article from Rachel!

It’s 24 days time again, here’s day 1, creating your first back office package: 24days.in/umbraco-cms/...

They weren’t kidding when they said the H2S comes in a comically huge box. Just got to wait for the filament to arrive and then I can get this behemoth set up and start printing giant things 😂

OMG, it’s a testament to the juggernaut that is KPop Demon Hunters that the big church in town that puts on a big nativity play for the local schools that its based the songs from that this year 😂

Currently having an absolute blast running Brindlewood Bay for a small group of friends, including someone who’s never played a tabletop RPG before, and it’s going really well! It’s a nice simple system with fun mechanics. The fact that everyone is a fan of cosy murder shows makes it even better 😃

For all the tech bro CEOs wondering why most people aren’t arsed about AI, I present Google’s search AI’s example of four letter fruits 😂

Went to get flu jab on Tuesday, was flagged as having VERY high blood pressure. It was normal last time it was checked, but I’m currently at stage 2 hypertension levels. Had a bunch of tests done and am monitoring my BP at home for a week. Fingers crossed we get to the bottom of this.

There was no course record! The race finished at 1am at a VERY impressive 41 hours equalling the current record). It was lovely to see so many people I consider friends in the final few too. I genuinely love the backyard ultra community.

Down to three runners now. Three more hours till a new course record.

Still five people running and going strong. I am pretty confident that we’re going to see a new course record in the early hours!

Oh joy, my legs hurt so much from running 75km that I can’t sleep 😢 on the plus side I can watch the live stream of the amazing runners still going!

Timed out, just, at 11 hours (about 75km). The weather was ATROCIOUS, so I’ll take that, not the PB I was hoping for, but not my worst result by any stretch. Had to scream “old fat bastard, get you big fat lazy arse in gear, NOW!!!” At myself to make it round loop 10.

Well, the weather is bobbins. Event organisers have already switched to the alternate day route which cuts out some treacherous sections of the course. Looks like more bad weather tomorrow. I’m expecting it to be a test of bad weather endurance as much as physical 😂

One of the reasons I love the ultra running community is I posted an update on my social media saying I was hoping to run for 24 hours at the weekend’s backyard, but that that would require me knocking 12 hours off my 100 mile PB, and several very decent runners offered to help.

Final release is getting closer!

OK, that was just what the doctor ordered. A lovely day of #umbraco talks and catching up with my friends!

Lovely 6km run to town to get a train at shat o’clock this morning. Even managed to grab an earlier train! Love seeing the city in the early hours in autumn. Now to Manchester for some hot #umbraco action!

Sad that I can’t make it over for the community part of #umbraco in the city today (ironically I have a big Umbraco site launch shortly). Looking forward to seeing folks tomorrow though!

My daughter has been practicing horror makeup for her Halloween costume, I’m really sad we didn’t have YouTube when I was a kid. She spent an hour watching some videos and then did this with PVA glue, toilet roll, standard makeup and some fake blood.

Genuinely looking forward to Umbraco in the City in a couple of weeks! I don’t get to hang out with my Umbraco friends as much as i used to and it makes me sad.

My daughter has made a creepy Halloween wreath using an ivy ring, some distressed foam flowers and eyes. I think it’s come out really well! Then last night she wrote three chapters of a very creepy gothic style story. She’s definitely our child 😂

I think it’s safe to say that Mochi, the abandoned kitten we took in, has very much settled into her new home. Here she is stopping me working by demanding skritches. #proofofcat

VERY excited to finally get to run Brindlewood Bay for some friends tonight, including someone who’s never played an RPG before! Should be fun 😃 hopefully we’ll be able to make this a regular thing!

I love when people use photos of them I took at festivals as avatar photos. What makes me sad though is the number of my photos that have been used in order of services for friends taken before their time. I feel honoured they chose a picture I took, but also very melancholy.

Holy shit. Was privileged enough to get to visit someone who has a phenomenal archive of music. Something like 65,000+ albums worth of stuff. Makes my undiagnosed ADHD hoardy tendencies look like amateur hour. Absolute squad goals.

In Porto with a pal who believes all mashups are wrong. INCORRECT, tried to introduce her to the Slipknot/Spice girls mashup and she wasn’t having it 😂

Finally, almost finished reading this, and it’s delightful. I feel like this a book @garius.bsky.social and @soapachu.bsky.social would enjoy.

The not so small human just had a go at doing Halloween makeup. I’d say this is pretty damned awesome!

Watching Infinity War with my family and had a discussion about Chadwick Boseman with my daughter. One of the things they never really discuss with cancer patients is survivors guilt. I’m pretty old now, at this point I’ve lost a LOT of friends to this shitty disease

infestuk.com/charity/ I’m super proud of the music festival I work at, we do a lot of charity stuff over the weekend, and since 2012 we’ve raised over 83 GRAND for good causes, thanks to our very generous festival goers.

Find myself really missing Japan this week. I wish I could go back again soon. Sadly, it’ll be a while before I can go again.

There are a surprising number of similarities between programming and running ultra distance endurance events. I have the shell of what I think is a pretty entertaining tech talk about it. Trying to decide if I should try and submit it to some events and see if anyone wants to listen to it 😂

The Saja boys were clearly based on Creep era Radiohead and I will die on this hill #kpopdemonhunters 😂

Newcomer Mochi is now mostly tolerated by our older cat Jiji. See how they sit almost together! Jiji has EPIC tortie grump face though 😂 #proofofcat

A friend has been building an amazing custom Game of Thrones themed library in her house and she’s asked me to paint this book end for her. Not used to painting stuff this big, but I’ll give it a go! Will post some WiP shots as I go along.

Still can’t quite get my head around the idea that I ran 100 miles just over a week ago! I’m glad I managed to do it before I was 50 though 😃 am starting to consider having another crack next year 😂 it’s only another 28.5 miles to finish the race!

And another friend taken far too young. Motor Neurone Disease this time. RIP Fitz, I’ll miss our music chats at Infest.

New arrival Mochi and grumpy older cat Jiji tolerating each other! This is good progress. #proofofcat

Say hello to one of my several a souvenirs from the weekends adventures. I think I’m going to call it Pustulio 😂

Timed out of my race at around 90 miles and decided to bloody mindedly slog the last 10 miles just so I can FINALLY say I’ve run 100 miles. That was a lot of fun, but TOUGH. Currently wide awake because my sleep patterns are knackered, and it hurts when I move my legs/feet 😂