Wednesday, 15th April, 2026

I won that Apple keyboard. Just got rid of electronics clutter and here I am buying more. If I ever buy a Mac mini, now I’ll have a keyboard 🤪

Pika export is a nice folder structure of markdown files and images. AI tells me it almost perfectly fits with Jekyll and 11ty is so flexible it would work just fine. So that’s nice to know. Although I do like keeping images with the blog post in it folder vs a single images/ folder. Makes naming things easier.

Started talking to Claude to ask it what I should do given my blog situation. Wrote a big long explanation and then it told me to use Hugo and NetlifyCMS (has a new name, but I forget it). I don’t like that answer.

I like the idea of using it to make a static site. Maybe Jekyll or 11ty. Take my existing design and finally add the things I want and sort it out perhaps? Still want a single blog but I can’t get past the fact that the radio blog fits nicely - the domain, the content.

Perhaps as a compromise, I’ll keep the radio blog but somewhat duplicate some content. I think the radio blog could have more specifics about radio vs regular? Bulk of my radio posts are actually nice hill walks with a bit of radio usage at the end….which I rarely talk much about unless there’s something of interest. Or I just point both domains at the same site and let people deal with it.

First step is still the same, make a new site. Write content. Then there’s domains.

Anyway, I’m sure by this evening I’ll have changed my mind.

Had a hospital appointment to check up on my finger. Which was fine but had to wait an hour for a 15 min appointment. Decided to write up yesterday’s radio hill walk on pika. As odd as this sounds, it was nice doing it from my phone. Maybe if I hadn’t forgotten the X4, I would’ve just read a book. Anyway, it was easy to do and got the job done. I still struggle with tagging - one per post or lots.

I do write 90% of these posts from my phone in 1Writer, so maybe I’m a phone blogger…I think I find it less distracting than on a computer, and can do it anywhere and anytime. So maybe that should inform my decision…

Maybe I should install Wordpress and the iOS app and just roll with it. (Can’t do it).

Pika.page are clearly wise to using their editor and exporting, as you can only do it once a week - at least with markdown and images. I sat on the sofa for a while this evening and thought of lots of things I needed to do on the computer. Then I got to the computer and just watched YouTube, and have since forgotten all those things. Oh well, probably not important, just busy work. Or making a new blog or something.