Junited-2026
I'm developing a deeper appreciation of the small web, so deciding to put my head above the parapet and actually participate which isn't always an easy thing for me.
I'd been thinking for a long time about the internet, social media and how it changed the web I remember from about 1999-200? maybe up to about 2010 before social media really got a foot hold. Then a year ago on holiday, I spent a lot of time reading Kev Quirks blog and seeing a guy similar in employment, age and location (UK) to me, talking about the same stuff I was thinking about. Since then I've tried to spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing on the indie/small web. I've had blogs before, but usually ran into the problem of making them about 1 thing that interested me rather than a more general thing. This is my first 'general' blog - started with history then drifts a bit between whatever else I'm interested in, but mostly comes back to history as a means of writing up my notes, showing off pictures and generally looking at stuff that I find interesting. Maybe someone else out there will too and that surely is the aim.
So Junited - I'll just slowly add to this page across the month.
Binary Digit - Leaving the tech world Featured as number 1 in Bear today so I doubt it needs much advertising, but its interesting to me as someone whose day job is now increasingly abstracted with AI and Cloud computing. All techies I've ever know had/have a plan to leave tech... and I certainly do, but I've been doing this a long time, its what I know and I'm not sure where I'd land either.
Terence Edens Blog UK (seemingly) tech, books and criticism of the government
Daily Medieval Tim Shaws daily dose of something Medieval. My knowledge of that period of history is pretty bad - this helps.