Matthew Kennard
@mken.bsky.social
Software developer. Books, classical music, politics.
#StarTrek left Netflix last week. My son and I had just come to the end of TNG Season 5 - a trip out to the shed and my pre-streaming DVDs was required so he wasn't left hanging wondering what had happened to Data's head. 👍 for physical media!
January 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
#StarTrek left Netflix last week. My son and I had just come to the end of TNG Season 5 - a trip out to the shed and my pre-streaming DVDs was required so he wasn't left hanging wondering what had happened to Data's head. 👍 for physical media!
My daughter has been excited by the small amount of snow we've had, and been bugging me to post this picture of our cat looking out the window.
January 3, 2026 at 10:25 AM
My daughter has been excited by the small amount of snow we've had, and been bugging me to post this picture of our cat looking out the window.
I dislike going back to clients saying I can’t fix a bug. YouTube embeds in iOS/Android web views appear to be broken in locally rendered content. Will this be fixed, or is it a deliberate change? We’ve all been reminded in the past month with the AWS/Azure outages of the problems of ceding control.
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I dislike going back to clients saying I can’t fix a bug. YouTube embeds in iOS/Android web views appear to be broken in locally rendered content. Will this be fixed, or is it a deliberate change? We’ve all been reminded in the past month with the AWS/Azure outages of the problems of ceding control.
Mapominoes, the English county variant, was played this evening with the children, my wife being at choir. A game I find difficult to remember the spelling of.
October 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Mapominoes, the English county variant, was played this evening with the children, my wife being at choir. A game I find difficult to remember the spelling of.
I'm not sure these coasters actually contain any music.
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I'm not sure these coasters actually contain any music.
Check out my Rogue Words Daily Challenge score!
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Check out my Rogue Words Daily Challenge score!
New Quest: finish reading all the Dungeon Crawler Carl books by 10th October. Reward: you don't have to give Amazon any more money, and you'll be able to read something else!
September 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New Quest: finish reading all the Dungeon Crawler Carl books by 10th October. Reward: you don't have to give Amazon any more money, and you'll be able to read something else!
I spotted this like guy bravely growing between the cracks in the pavement.
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I spotted this like guy bravely growing between the cracks in the pavement.
I’m dealing some years old technical debt this morning, and updating a client project from Mapbox v9 to v11 - and they’ve changed the APIs quite significantly. I’m not having a fun Monday morning.
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I’m dealing some years old technical debt this morning, and updating a client project from Mapbox v9 to v11 - and they’ve changed the APIs quite significantly. I’m not having a fun Monday morning.
I came across a new-ish iOS app this morning called Postalgic. It's a static site generator with a nice friendly UI that runs on your iPhone. Push to GitHub pages, S3 for a way to have a free personal blog. Very cute! Open source and a one time payment app 🎉 https://github.com/amiantos/postalgic
June 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I came across a new-ish iOS app this morning called Postalgic. It's a static site generator with a nice friendly UI that runs on your iPhone. Push to GitHub pages, S3 for a way to have a free personal blog. Very cute! Open source and a one time payment app 🎉 https://github.com/amiantos/postalgic
It's Father's Day so I picked playing the #BoardGame Ticket to Ride Europe. My son has the game as a present for his birthday a couple of weeks ago, and we hadn't played it yet. Lots of fun, despite me getting confused how the destination cards worked!
June 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's Father's Day so I picked playing the #BoardGame Ticket to Ride Europe. My son has the game as a present for his birthday a couple of weeks ago, and we hadn't played it yet. Lots of fun, despite me getting confused how the destination cards worked!
We've decided it's our #cats birthday next week. I'm trying to grow him some grass. Although he's nominally an outdoor cat he doesn't seem to like outside much!
June 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We've decided it's our #cats birthday next week. I'm trying to grow him some grass. Although he's nominally an outdoor cat he doesn't seem to like outside much!
My son has been telling his friends parents in the playground how excited he is to be watching the second part of the #StarTrek TNG "The Best of Both Worlds" after school 🤩
June 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My son has been telling his friends parents in the playground how excited he is to be watching the second part of the #StarTrek TNG "The Best of Both Worlds" after school 🤩
My son got a number of fun looking board games for his birthday. I'm looking forward to playing these with him at the weekend.
June 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My son got a number of fun looking board games for his birthday. I'm looking forward to playing these with him at the weekend.
It's time to try out my new bike. I've not ridden in 30 years, but want to go on bike rides with my daughter. I chose a folding bike as the shed is very full! First ride went well and my daughter was very excited when we went out together 🤩🚲
May 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It's time to try out my new bike. I've not ridden in 30 years, but want to go on bike rides with my daughter. I chose a folding bike as the shed is very full! First ride went well and my daughter was very excited when we went out together 🤩🚲
I'm really enjoying "It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton". The two one listened to so far have been great short stories, and an ideal length for a lunchtime walk. https://pca.st/podcast/9911a4f0-e72b-013d-46fd-02bb5ef11301
May 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I'm really enjoying "It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton". The two one listened to so far have been great short stories, and an ideal length for a lunchtime walk. https://pca.st/podcast/9911a4f0-e72b-013d-46fd-02bb5ef11301
I don't go into Birmingham City centre very often. There's always some new big project in-progress to marvel at. Here I'm looking over at the construction of the terminus for HS2 and how it will link into the tram network.
May 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I don't go into Birmingham City centre very often. There's always some new big project in-progress to marvel at. Here I'm looking over at the construction of the terminus for HS2 and how it will link into the tram network.
I'm enjoying having a play with Journelly + Raycast, a new journaling app which writes to an Org file. (Raycast script) https://home.omg.lol/address/mken/pastebin/raycast-journelly-script (Emacs Lisp) https://home.omg.lol/address/mken/pastebin/add-to-journelly-file-emacs-lisp-for-use-with-raycast
May 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'm enjoying having a play with Journelly + Raycast, a new journaling app which writes to an Org file. (Raycast script) https://home.omg.lol/address/mken/pastebin/raycast-journelly-script (Emacs Lisp) https://home.omg.lol/address/mken/pastebin/add-to-journelly-file-emacs-lisp-for-use-with-raycast
Reposted by Matthew Kennard
🙏 My iOS app made it to the App Store, please help me get the word out and boost 🚀
Journelly: like tweeting but for your eyes only (offline / powered by plain text)
lmno.lol/alvaro/journ...
#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly
Journelly: like tweeting but for your eyes only (offline / powered by plain text)
lmno.lol/alvaro/journ...
#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly
May 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🙏 My iOS app made it to the App Store, please help me get the word out and boost 🚀
Journelly: like tweeting but for your eyes only (offline / powered by plain text)
lmno.lol/alvaro/journ...
#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly
Journelly: like tweeting but for your eyes only (offline / powered by plain text)
lmno.lol/alvaro/journ...
#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly
My daughter had a bike for her birthday earlier this week. She's doing really well learning to ride. I was a little nervous as I didn't do too well teaching her brother a few years ago - but she's coming along fantastically! I might need to get myself a bike... I've not ridden for about 30 years 😬
April 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My daughter had a bike for her birthday earlier this week. She's doing really well learning to ride. I was a little nervous as I didn't do too well teaching her brother a few years ago - but she's coming along fantastically! I might need to get myself a bike... I've not ridden for about 30 years 😬
For the past few years our local park has been removing equipment and not replacing it. My kids were so excited yesterday so m to see the return of the tyre, after an absence of over three years!
April 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
For the past few years our local park has been removing equipment and not replacing it. My kids were so excited yesterday so m to see the return of the tyre, after an absence of over three years!
Note to self: don't order cake toppers with delivered shopping order.
April 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Note to self: don't order cake toppers with delivered shopping order.