Ippudo chicken katsu don
I’d forgotten quite how old old-style banks are. A standing order can’t go out on the weekend? Does a clerk need to print it out, take it to the accounts department, and hand it to another clerk? š¤Ø
New views
A view from my new hood
My new commute
This is my first commute by public transport in eight years. It takes just under 40 minutes door to door but I’m no longer getting my 10K steps per day.
Why are the doors inside UK flats self-closing, so you need to bend down and remove a doorstop whenever you actually want to close the door? š¤
Dinner favourite
We sometimes end up at Hoko for dinner after work, and it always goes a bit like this:
1x Hong Kong Classic French Toast
1x With Peanut Butter
1x Scrambled Eggs Char Siu BBQ Pork Rice
1x Lychee Yakult Ice
1x Pineapple Ice
1x Swiss Wings (5pcs)
Note to self: Remember to go to the new flat, not the old one, after work tonight.
Moving day
Bye bye, home š¢
Moving out
I always find it sad to move out of a place, no matter where Iām moving to, and this place has been the place I call home for much longer than I could have ever imagined when I moved in in April 2014.
Flat 7 has been a nice little place, and Iāve particularly enjoyed how easy itās been not to buy a lot of stuff when living here. It just wouldnāt fit!
All good things come to an end, and weāve realised it is time for a bit more space. Getting up at different times or both of us working from home hasn’t been easy when thereās no separate room and no doors.
On Wednesday, weāre moving into a temporary flat until we can get our new home. Hopefully, it shouldnāt be too long now!
End of an era
I’m moving on Wednesday, so today was the last Saturday with this particular routine.
How (A)I built this blog
AI is definitely a big help for me as an infrequent coder. For a while now, Iāve been pasting code and errors into Claude or ChatGPT to get some help, like āWhat does this error mean?ā or āWhat is the correct way of doing this in React?ā
The blog youāre reading right now is the first time Iāve let the AI actually build an application. Admittedly, itās very basic: a static site generator in Python, using templates and publishing to the web, but looking back, I havenāt actually written a single line of code or barely even looked at one.
Hereās what I did...
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Wish I were here
We’ve just had the two hottest May days or record in the UK, and I’ve been wishing it was last summer again and I were in Svalbard.
(Photo from 26/8/2025)