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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · 3d

Mapominoes, the English county variant, was played this evening with the children, my wife being at choir. A game I find difficult to remember the spelling of.

Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · 14d

I'm not sure these coasters actually contain any music.

Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · 19d

Check out my Rogue Words Daily Challenge score!

Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · 26d

New Quest: finish reading all the Dungeon Crawler Carl books by 10th October. Reward: you don't have to give Amazon any more money, and you'll be able to read something else!

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Sep 12

I spotted this like guy bravely growing between the cracks in the pavement.

Sunflower growing between pavement cracks

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’m dealing some years old technical debt this morning, and updating a client project from Mapbox v9 to v11 - and they’ve changed the APIs quite significantly. I’m not having a fun Monday morning.

Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Jun 30

I came across a new-ish iOS app this morning called Postalgic. It's a static site generator with a nice friendly UI that runs on your iPhone. Push to GitHub pages, S3 for a way to have a free personal blog. Very cute! Open source and a one time payment app 🎉 https://github.com/amiantos/postalgic

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Jun 25

I think the grass is ready for the #cat.

Cat sniffing grass grown in a plastic tray

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Jun 15

It's Father's Day so I picked playing the #BoardGame Ticket to Ride Europe. My son has the game as a present for his birthday a couple of weeks ago, and we hadn't played it yet. Lots of fun, despite me getting confused how the destination cards worked!

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Jun 15

We've decided it's our #cats birthday next week. I'm trying to grow him some grass. Although he's nominally an outdoor cat he doesn't seem to like outside much!

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Jun 13

My son has been telling his friends parents in the playground how excited he is to be watching the second part of the #StarTrek TNG "The Best of Both Worlds" after school 🤩

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Jun 4

My son got a number of fun looking board games for his birthday. I'm looking forward to playing these with him at the weekend.

Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · May 25

It's time to try out my new bike. I've not ridden in 30 years, but want to go on bike rides with my daughter. I chose a folding bike as the shed is very full! First ride went well and my daughter was very excited when we went out together 🤩🚲

Cat sniffing around folding bike (in folded state)

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · May 21

I'm really enjoying "It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton". The two one listened to so far have been great short stories, and an ideal length for a lunchtime walk. https://pca.st/podcast/9911a4f0-e72b-013d-46fd-02bb5ef11301

Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · May 6

I don't go into Birmingham City centre very often. There's always some new big project in-progress to marvel at. Here I'm looking over at the construction of the terminus for HS2 and how it will link into the tram network.

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · May 2

I'm enjoying having a play with Journelly + Raycast, a new journaling app which writes to an Org file. (Raycast script) https://home.omg.lol/address/mken/pastebin/raycast-journelly-script (Emacs Lisp) https://home.omg.lol/address/mken/pastebin/add-to-journelly-file-emacs-lisp-for-use-with-raycast

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Álvaro Ramírez @xenodium.bsky.social · May 1

🙏 My iOS app made it to the App Store, please help me get the word out and boost 🚀

Journelly: like tweeting but for your eyes only (offline / powered by plain text)

lmno.lol/alvaro/journ...

#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Apr 26

My daughter had a bike for her birthday earlier this week. She's doing really well learning to ride. I was a little nervous as I didn't do too well teaching her brother a few years ago - but she's coming along fantastically! I might need to get myself a bike... I've not ridden for about 30 years 😬

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Apr 26

For the past few years our local park has been removing equipment and not replacing it. My kids were so excited yesterday so m to see the return of the tyre, after an absence of over three years!

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Apr 19

Note to self: don't order cake toppers with delivered shopping order.

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Apr 18

Unexpected blossom

New branch coming out of tree trunk with blossom

Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Apr 11

The Oric-1 beats the Amstrad CPC6128 by two years. Having some home computer Top Trumps-esque fun with my son.

Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Apr 9

I think this swan is a little lost. Not sure I've ever seen a swan this far from the boating lake in the nearby park.

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Apr 5

I tried leaving Oreo outside on his own for a few minutes. As soon as he spotted I'd snuck in this was the result. I think it's going to be a mainly indoor #Caturday.

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Matthew Kennard @mken.bsky.social · Apr 2

Oreo is very cautiously exploring the garden. He's been let outside for a short while before dinner for a couple of weeks now, and is deciding to fully explore this bush before going any further. Maybe in another week or two he'll eventually discover the grass (we've not got a very big garden!)

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