Saturday, 2nd May, 2026

I’m getting closer and closer to signing up to Pika and using that as my main site - replacing it and probably the radio blog, but I’m not sure. As I plan on backup weekly, and downloading the markdown and images, I might just make a static gen that utilises those and (somehow) only builds posts with the radio tag. There’s never any time criticality to my radio blog posts so weekly is fine. I do want to migrate all my historical posts from everywhere into pika. That might take a while and not sure of the best way to do that. I do see they let you use other apps to post via micropub but not sure that really helps me. They do offer to help if you contact them, but not sure about that. Be nice to consolidate. Even paying monthly, it’s only ~£4.50 a month. If it means I finally write about the things I think about writing, then it’s worthwhile.

I am still going to keep this site as a journal. I don’t think this content mixes well elsewhere, plus it’s embarrassing how often I talk about the same thing and change nothing! The main blog are like my final photos that I want to look at, and this is the whole roll before I’ve sorted them, tweaked them and culled the cruff. Also I like my little writing setup using the Apple keyboard and tiny phone stand.

I installed Claude code on my computer but have yet to sign up to a pro subscription. I’d like to use it to tidy up my websites, and maybe make some of the streamlit radio apps into a dedicated site that I host (or ideally static and just JavaScript). But after that…I’m not sure if I really need a pro subscription? Obviously I can just cancel and then if there are other things re subscribe. Maybe if I see the answers it gives back to general questions then I’ll want to keep it more, but most of the time the free one seems good enough.

I’ve also been spending less time on the computer and generally enjoying that more. It’s interesting, I use my phone just as much as I have always done, and in fact I really like writing on it (with or without the keyboard), but using the computer never seems to end well. I feel like I only ever waste time on it and never do anything useful. I don’t even write here, I just look at reddit or YouTube or look at maps of summits. There’s a lot of history and decades of habit when I sit down in front of The Computer. Where as when I’m somewhere else, that doesn’t exist. I have two monitors and I think that just compounds the issues - more screen for more wasting time. Whereas on my phone I can only do one thing at a time as the screen is too small for anything else, plus the whole OS is mostly setup to just do one thing at a time. I always liked writing on my iPad as it was a one app at a time device. On the computer I just flit between stuff or have 4 things open at once and do nothing in anything of them.

I have been thinking about installing Linux on the ThinkPad and then trying to use that. See if that helps. But what am I trying to help? Do I actually have anything useful to be doing on the computer? That’s maybe the real problem to solve.

I’m sat in another seat in the office, under the wall shelves, and I can see about 13 books I’ve never read. Some of these I’ve had for over 20 years and I’ve never read them. From novels to non-fiction. Probably I should try and read one at least.

Anyway…time away from the computer seems like a good idea in general. I just need to find somewhere else to sit in the evening.

Youngest wanted her room rearranged so she could see a 4’ wall sticker she’s had for ages but behind the dolls house. As everyone but her and I were out, we set to it this afternoon. Took a while, and involved screwing her bed back together and cleaning lots of behind places, but now we’ve done it. Looks and feels better, more spacious and a little more junk thrown away. I felt a strong desire to sort out or tidy up somewhere else, just not sure where. The office or garage are the only places that could do with decluttering. Maybe I’ll do the office as it’s just a few bits and bobs about that need sorting out and I think the effect would be great. The garage, on the other hand, requires a lot to make it look better, and probably most of the tidying just results in neater drawers.