Mark Pitblado
Mark Pitblado
Mark Pitblado
This is my little corner of the internet. This site is designed to be fast — crazy fast. It is simple by design, so that you can spend more time doing what matters to you, and less time waiting for web pages to load.
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Flip through any newspaper and there will be a clear divide between pieces that clearly took substantial amounts of effort, and other pieces that were written just to fill the page. Gone is the era of “All the news that’s fit to print”....
About two years ago, I wrote these words about using neovim: I can feel my stress levels rise as I try to remember how to do something simple like delete a letter. Using it feels unnecessarily complicated, and it is frustrating to have...
There are few things more certain in life than hearing the familiar “Good morning!” from Tim Cook at the beginning of an Apple event. Going into today, rumours were pretty set on announcements for the Apple Watch, and the launch of a...
When I visited home over the summer holidays, a family member mentioned that they didn’t really like the MacBook they purchased a few years ago. Having used Windows at work for decades, they just wanted the same experience on their...
A little while back, I was in a meeting with a coworker when they asked me if a particular data problem could be solved by a script. The problem met all the criteria, it was definable, not too complex, and would scale linearly....
A post by Kev Quirk peaked my interest into what a great notetaking and todo system would look like. I’m currently using vikunja for tasks and mkdocs for notes, however, there are still things with the overall flow that I am missing. For...
Last week, the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act went into effect. This law empowers Ofcom, the country’s internet regulatory body, to ensure that companies have implemented age-verification for a wide swath of content. For services...
Some of life’s best ideas come from just sitting down with a cup of coffee and staring out the window. I thought about a message I stumbled upon a while back, mentioning a new Canadian git hosting company called Worktree. As a fellow...
Recently, I was looking at rental properties for an upcoming move. After a couple of days it was obvious that Facebook marketplace had the largest network, and with it, the largest diversity of offers at the best prices. I haven’t had a...