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In episode 6 of #100DaysToOffload I’ve been playing with some strategies for running the house with my wife.

“Do you have the login for the car insurance?”

“Which home insurance provider are we with now? I just spilled red wine on the carpet”

“What day does the mortgage come out of our joint account?”

These are questions, particularly that 2nd one, that I want to be able to answer at the drop of a hat. However, there are also a couple of other key constraints:

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Popped in to Worcester City centre while we’re visiting family in the Midlands and went to Boston Tea Party for lunch. Their porky beans on toast and cakes and coffee were great. Highly recommended!

In episode 5 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge, I talk about my recent experience playing with the brid.gy codebase, a fun and pleasant deep-dive into the code base for one of the IndieWeb movement’s key pieces of infrastructure.

Intro to Brid.gy

Back when I started reading about the IndieWeb Movement and playing with micropub/microsub around christmas time I found bri.dgy, a service by Ryan Barret a.k.a snarfed which transparently links your micropub website with social media silos like twitter, mastodon, instagram and others, in order to facilitate both POSSE and backfeeding (i.e. PESOS) of content.

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Testing that brid.gy can now import photos from my site to fosstodon thanks to this fix with a photo I took of a lovely breakfast we had on my wife’s birthday

I’ve just noticed that depressingly I get more text messages from OTP services than my friends (hopefully more a reflection that I sign in to a lot of things than not having any friends)

An evening out at the theatre to see Groan Ups by the mischief theatre company (play that goes wrong lot)

My cat likes the sunshine as much as I do in dreary January although his idea of helping with my work could use some adjustment

Content-warning: depression

This post is a tongue-in-cheek poke at middle class festive traditions in the UK.

This coming Monday is Blue Monday which is supposedly the most depressing day of the year. Whether you are a glass-half full or glass half-empty sort of person, you have to admit that these first few weeks in January are a bit of a struggle right? There are plenty of reasons why you might feel like that, from the weather to that broken new year’s resolution (if you’ve already slipped, don’t worry and don’t write the year off, just get back on the horse - Rome wasn’t built in a day).

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As everyone else seems to at this time of year, I thought I would write a quick post about how my year’s gone. I will follow up with some ambitions for 2022 tomorrow.

💒 Getting Married

My biggest personal achievement this year was getting married. My wife and I have been together since 2015 and we’d set our sights on a big traditional wedding. Due to COVID we realised that was unlikely to happen any time soon and it also made us reprioritise what we wanted to spend money on - big weddings are notoriously expensive. Instead, we opted for a small family wedding in Winchester which was a lovely experience and meant we got to interact with all of our guests.

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