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22.01.2026 15:23
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Happy birthday!
Realised I’ve not been on here for ages. Hello again. What’s going on?
On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.
Happy 35th Birthday WorldWideWeb – the first browser!
On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.
Try the browser emulator worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/
#InternetHistory
Seeing as it's 5 November, something about Bonfire Night...
The topsy-turvy celebration of Guy Fawkes
interconnected.org/home/2022/11...
Youngest daughter and her friends are watching The Shining on their Halloween sleep over. It’s been going like this…
‘Omg, is so boring!’
‘What *is* this film about!?’
‘Shit! Oh, it’s so creepy’
‘I don’t like it’
‘Can we come and sit with you?’
‘Don’t turn the lights off!’
‘Did you hear that?’
Been vibe coding a cycling app. It’s like a cross between being a hovering art director and a baby sitter.
Superman. Superdog. Funny droids. Clearly I’m 42 years too old for this film.
Me.
Browse > Raindrop it > 11ty publishes it once a day.
Carb loading for a bike ride tomorrow and am approx 80% bagel and jam, 10% banana bread, 7% orange juice, and 3% gaviscon.
Liquid Glass is upsetting.
Ok, so the responsive mobile view is less than ideal, and I need to refactor to use my own tokens etc. But still, one step at a time.
It’s been fun. This is all with a view of actually building my own bespoke, useful dashboard. So many cycling apps throw the kitchen sink at you. I just want a few specific things I’m tracking from a good data source.
Always be tinkering.
It’s a mix of indoor training and outdoor rides. Still work to do around making them easily navigable and performant. The svg maps and HR/Power data plots was a bit of a challenge.
All of this is being built with Eleventy, the Strava API, the Intervals.icu API together with open street map.
Made a thing on my website.
markboulton.co.uk/rides/
For a while I’ve been wanting to continue to own my own data and I do a fair bit of riding with a lot of data. So putting them up on my site and tinkering felt like a nice thing to do.
I have opinions about notebooks. The Midori MD A5 gridded notebook is almost perfect. From its lay-flat design and the weight of the paper. But its cover is rubbish. Light weight and gets destroyed by travel. And the separate covers aren’t that great.
I’m not going to make my own but I’m tempted.
That is a very good idea. Ours are continually chipping. How are you attaching them? And would your fabricator do antique nickel?
I stuck it in the fridge
It’s been 25 years since I’ve seen G Love & Special Sauce and tonight they treated us to the entire first album and a few extras. Just a wonderful experience.
During the first lockdown, I blogged about making a bit of an aggregated feed reader (I guess I was doing a lot of doomscrolling).
markboulton.co.uk/journal/my-o...
I hadn't looked at it ages, but it feels like a scary, depressing, triggering time capsule.
broadsheet.markboulton.co.uk
I hope Alien Earth gets better.
I think what it hasn’t nailed is that, like the shark in Jaws, the xenomorph’s horror lies in its absence. It was so quiet, so fast, so stealthy, that you have no chance of witnessing it take someone.
And followed that up with a few words about cake.
markboulton.co.uk/journal/cake/
I wrote about crit today as I revive my Handbook series of posts.
markboulton.co.uk/journal/crit/
Not seen episode 1 yet!
Oh no! I have high hopes!
Just digging around a four year old Eleventy build of my blog going ‘huh?’. I reckon I may have to zero the desk if I’m going to rebuild this thing
(Zeroing the desk: markboulton.co.uk/journal/zero...)
In my ‘shake up my blog and get back to reading and writing’ renewed energy I’ve now tweaked my reading workflow. RSS, for things I like, save to Instapaper, IFTTT to raindrop with a specific collection, Eleventy builds from the raindrop API.
Enjoying some tinkering.
I went to the Maldives. I read, ate, snorkelled. That was literally it. For 10 days.
It was *so* good
I second Andy’s recommendation. I did this last week (and last year) and realised I hadn’t really had a relaxing holiday since 2004.