Watched movie: V for Vendetta (2006) Comment: the comic was better https://movary.alifeee.net/users/alifeee/movies/183-v-for-vendetta

luv me bike. yesterday I carried a piece of metal furniture home that was probably 20kg. but this little guy made it easy peasy. didn't get a pic of that because it actually wasn't peasy enough to have any spare hands... so here's a pic of what I've been carrying today

do I really need to get 8 emails when I am receiving a parcel? I think: no

I changed most of the URLs on my blog, which means also on the RSS feed I expect you might be notified for them all again soon. but, you know, you could read them again or, a great chance to subscribe to the feed, as I won't break it again for at LEAST 6 months https://blog.alifeee.net/feed.xml

hello @dynomight. you don't know me, nor I you. anyway, I can't use your 404 form on your webbed site. e.g., I can't submit a form on https://dynomight.net/horse/ to say that there is a post on https://dynomight.substack.com/p/horse

Watched movie: Sliding Doors (1998) Comment: hilarious. women are evil. that's the lesson. https://movary.alifeee.net/users/alifeee/movies/145-sliding-doors

yeeks

@blue do u have ur lovely images anywhere ? ... thinking TRANSpennine express etc ... for some small laminated spoke cards for a friend who likes bikes and trains ...

I have submitted my tax return

what is your

this is neat https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/postcode-tool/

@caolan another for the list ;] https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/

set up WebDAV on my server yesterday it was actually very simple

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomstafford/116544770826568466 some great graphs here of the Sheffield election results & council makeup :] #sheffield

collated another month notes for Sheffield Hackspace :] https://www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk/month-updates-march-april-2026/

let's play the game "how many separate messaging apps do I need to open to send a text to all my friends"

I love Samuel Pepys

I subscribe to 5 of my own RSS feeds

ok everyone, you couldn't behave my git server now has logs/tree/commits/diffs locked out. you scraped one too many times but, you know, if you're a human and not an infinitely hungry AI-scraping bot, you could always,,, you know,,, just clone the repository https://git.alifeee.net/

what clues tell you that this image is AI generated (or not)? (it's from an advert for a TV show about makers)

Sean Morl on the delivery robots (in Sheffield) https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/why-do-i-hate-the-delivery-robots-meersbrook-park-sheffield

my entire life is devoted to trying to get this text

hey ! a blog post ! "This month (April 2026), my friends and I hitchhiked to Grenoble – in France – as ten people in four teams, for charity. " Here are some statistics and thoughts about the trip, as well as an interactive map :] https://blog.alifeee.net/2026/04/blummit2grenoble/

there is a nice list of AI scenarios in here https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout "nice" could also be "upsettingly accurate"

just used <a target="_parent"… for the first time had only used target="_blank" before. we evolve (it's for a new blog post ... you might like it ;])

what do we think of this site ? https://newtosheffield.co.uk/

Added movie to watchlist: Ghost in the Machine (2026) https://movary.alifeee.net/users/alifeee/movies/177-ghost-in-the-machine

orite I've been away from Mastodon for 8 days. anything fun happened ?

wham https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-04-16-credentials.html

@tom7 I have loved your fonts page(s) for a while, I often use them (I'm sure you have heard such praise before) I re-hosted them with a little interactive text element for each on https://alifeee.net/fonts/tom7/ — mostly for myself, but thought you might like it :]

ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ ɢᴇᴛꜱ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ᴏꜰ ᴍʏ ᴄʏᴄʟɪɴɢ

oh hey it's me! hitchhiking ! 👍 ! again!;] next week we're off to Grenoble ... check out my sweet website about it if you like charity, maybe donate. if you don't: let us know if you have a friend of a friend we could stay with on the way ;] https://alifeee.net/blummit/ (please boost !! wahoo!)

Watched movie: Gone Girl (2014) Comment: nick done https://movary.alifeee.net/users/alifeee/movies/167-gone-girl

Vodaphone says https://web.archive.org/ is "over 18 content" what hell is this

hey what is this https://www.letstalkai.org.uk/

freedom of information club where we meet every week to submit a freedom of information request

@caolan fancy making something to pin to my affichages libre? ;] https://alifeee.net/#affichages-libre

submitted a pull request and it got merged but then the author amended the commit with claude code

I want to make this better, my random RSS picker https://server.alifeee.net/do/randomrss.cgi it's all good having new items go through my RSS feed, but sometimes there's nothing new, and it'd be nice to read something old (from before I subscribed to an RSS feed)

another wonderful march and another wonderful @caolan link log https://caolan.uk/links/log/2026-03.cm

Watched movie: eXistenZ (1999) Comment: death to the demon, Ted Pikul! https://movary.alifeee.net/users/alifeee/movies/173-existenz

hey I wrote a blog post about using some software you could read it and there's a neat little video https://blog.alifeee.net/2026/04/owntracks/

I return to this page a lot https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/simple-and-nice-blockquote-styling/

what do you use instead of Google Forms ? I keep forgetting to bookmark people's great forms there are some options on https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/ but none I love

in april I plan to do less I will take every thing I would have planned to do and instead put it in my big list maybe it will be ok

submitted an EMF proposal ^.^

hey I'm doing a talk on Thursday !!! with @neilzilla ! https://www.meetup.com/front-end-sheffield/events/313522642/

god I love wikis

do YOU want to be National Rail accredited? https://server.alifeee.net/static/ircfiles/National%20Rail%20accredited.svg

@yaxu I think I remember you talking about "artist grants", some system where people are given £200 (or whatever) for 3 months with no expectations (just part-funding what they were doing already) do you have any links or documents to things that have happened? I might have the opportunity to […]