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Self-hosted solar + battery ROI tracker, motorbike trip writeups with GPS routes, and notes on building it all with Claude Code.
I wasn’t anti-fox — but I did once run a little “fuck off, foxes” system to dissuade them. Now a regular visitor treats my walled garden as a safe base, takes the odd scrap, and I rank among the more amiable humans on her nightly round.
The government broadcast a barbecue advisory to forty-four million phones as a Severe emergency alert — while five days of an actual New Forest wildfire went out on a Facebook post. The alert system has only one gear.
Satellite and terrestrial TV switch off within a decade and everything moves to the internet. But that's just the pipe — the real fight is what wins inside it: fragmented pay-streaming, four million dodgy Fire Sticks, and a BBC weighing whether to firewall iPlayer.
Nine minutes of pandemic-era nonsense from May 2020. The title is correct.
Lead guitar riffs over Irish coastal roads and green hillsides. A short video from the 2015 UK and Ireland motorcycle trip.
Discover the magic of aviation in this short video exploring the dream of flight and personal reflections from 2020.
Discover AlistairTheOptimist's personal short video from 2016, capturing moments of joy and optimism through a unique travel perspective.
Watch Josh's heartfelt birthday message filmed in beautiful Galway. This short video captures a special personal moment by the Irish coast.