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November 2025

1. 2Sun

   Here is Ruairidh the spaniel, directing from his command centre this evening.

   
2. 1Sat
   

   I had webmentions working pretty quickly on bear last night, displaying them where the upvote counter is not used took longer to refactor.

   
3. 1Sat

   As we prepare to face Arsenal this afternoon, here's a quick clip I took after the final whistle on Sunday at the Molineux.

October 2025

1. 26Sun

   Installing CDN video hosting into my BearBlog, along with a clips section, with plans to migrate all of my macretro youtube work into my own environ.

   

   In one quick experiment last night, I tested Bunny for video hosting. That was really simple, embedding an iframe with the video url as src, and applying a minimal amount of styling in the theme to make the borders look better.

   I then added my Clips section to the site, which I'll need to replicate on my front page. If costs are sensible, I will migrate all of my youtube hosted retro gaming content here.

   It does seem to use a cookie, which I need to look at, but I don't think tracking anything beyond the session.

2. 26Sun

   Waiting for kick-off at an almost empty Molineux.

   
3. 25Sat
   

   I headed down to Manchester to catchup with Craig this afternoon, taking in FC United of Manchester's 1-0 Trophy win over Bamber Bridge. Adam Le Fondre deflected a late ball into the net in front of the home terrace, in a largely uneventful game.

   
4. 25Sat
   Article Bearly here Talking about my journey to Bear, and my plans for this blog
5. 25Sat

   FC United of Manchester take a freekick against Bamber Bridge in the second half of an FA Trophy tie today.
6. 24Fri

   Here is Stevie hogging the fire in my office today. Though Podenco, the labrador is strong in this one.

   
7. 24Fri

   Listen Cardiff and listen Westminster. This is Caerphilly. And we are telling you we want a better deal. Wales is at the dawn of a new leadership, a new beginning.

   Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle speaking on lifting the Caerphilly seat in the Senedd from an increasingly listing Labour.

8. 23Thu
   

   Fearghus, BayLee and Leo hiding under the desk while at work today.

9. 23Thu
   

   I've not noticed the interactions block on a weblog.lol site previously. I don't see whether it receives webmentions or from Bluesky. Might be an option if my current Bear experiment fails...

10. 23Thu
    

    Given that Vickie has been in Portugal for the week, and I cannot watch Burnley's output on, ugh, X, ugh - I'm sure she will be looking forward to tonight's feature length viewing!

11. 20Mon

    On his evening walk on Saturday, I took Mr. BayLee to meet the dinosaurs being constructed at the new crazy golf course at the Prairie in Burnley. One prehistoric creature meets another.

    
12. 12Sun

    Strangely my migration to my self-hosted mastodon server seems to have dropped my follows of (but not followers from) social.lol accounts. Hopefully I've found and readded them all today...

13. 11Sat

    I've started making my way back through the CSS course in FreeCodeCamp's curriculum, the first lab being this simple design a business card exercise.

    

14. 5Sun

    Ruairidh had fun while I was out today, here he is playing with a shark in an upside-down bed.

    

September 2025

1. 27Sat

   Finished off the remainder of the FCC html course ready to move on to CSS tomorrow.

   

2. 26Fri

   Quick exercise on FCC this evening, building out a basic checkout page with accessibility features. Aria-labels are new to me, so I'll need to wrap my head around those a little more.

   

3. 23Tue

   This evening's code exercise was an easy walk through html tables on FCC. Click through for links to repo and build if of interest.