Welcome to the personal site of Declan Byrd

Hi I'm Declan, and this is my permanently in-progress website.

Here you will find my journal which includes a mixture of short notes, Mastodon posts, and longer pieces of writing.

The journal also contains my week notes, in which I try to document what I do each week. There are some common themes such as any basketball games I have played in, any Brighton & Hove Albion football games that I've been to, and my media consumption. The most recent week note is Week 51 of 2025.

A keen photographer, I also publish my photos to this website. These include photos that I've taken on my smartphone, DSLR, or compact camera.

Re-discovering the joy of reading books, I log all of the books that I've finished on this website. The last book I finished was The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr and right now I'm reading Beartown by Fredrik Backman.

I enjoy playing single player video games. At the moment I'm playing Ghost of Tsushima on the PlayStation 5.

If you want to know how this website was put together, everything I use is listed in the colophon.