As regular readers will know, I’m heavily invested in the Home assistant ecosystem in my house. I have lots of zigbee devices, tablets on most walls displaying or controlling things…. it’s a lot. I also have a few Amazon Echos scattered around, including one in the kitchen which I play music on when I’m cooking. […]
Last week the ‘pick a hobby’ part of my brain returned to 3d printing. I’ve had a 3d printer for about 6 years now and every few months I’ll decide I want to use it to print…something. So I’ll fire it up, then realise that actually it would be so much better with some additional […]
A few months ago, my partner and I finally gave in to the relentless pressure from our children and added 2 kittens to our family. Say hello to Hamish and Hazel: They’re now 6 months old (and slightly bigger) and getting ready to venture into the outside world. So, of course, being the massive nerd […]
Following on my previous posts about SDAM & Aphantasia (and a visit to my GP to talk about depression) in October 2023 I started on a journey toward ADHD and ASD diagnoses. Recently I’ve started documenting this, in a youtube series I call ‘Depression Diaries’.The latest of these touches on SDAM again, earlier ones cover […]
This is a follow up post to my last one in which I try to explain some of the weird and wonderful ways my brain works. In the last post I talked mostly about SDAM and touched on Aphantasia, today I’m digging into another aspect of thought: the inner monologue or vocalisation. This is another […]
This post is a little different than my usual tech nonsense. It’s an aggregation of a few posts I’ve made on various social media about the way my brain works. Specifically SDAM and Aphantasia and their impact on my life. This all started a few years ago when I read this post by mozilla co-founder […]
I’ve had a 3d Printer for several years now, it was originally a creality CR10s which I bought way back in 2018ish. Since then I’ve upgraded (or at least changed it) in various ways. I added bracing rods to the front to add rigidity to the frame. I added closed loop driver boards to cut […]
in 2021 I built a DIY Rack in my cellar (pt1, pt2, pt3). The last update on that is from a couple of years ago now, and looking back through the site archives I realise I never posted where that Journey ended…… At the end of 2021 I moved house. I knew that I wouldn’t […]
Continuing with my habit of writing a flurry of posts before getting bored and not writing anything for a year….. welcome back! Since my last set of posts, among other things I’ve bought a house which means, obviously, I’m now spending a lot of time / effort on smart lighting and heating throughout the house […]
The journey so far (pt1, pt2) has led us from geeky twinkle in my eye, to a load of servers sat in a very environmentally concious (if you ignore the power requirements) rack. Now is where things get serious, now we actually do something with all that silicon muscle. Brains. Whatever. I had some initial […]