Adam Newbold

Breaking things in the most painful way possible.

Updating Gravatars.

Making some final adjustments to .

Fixing a small Statuslog API bug.

Untangling 100 feet of ethernet cable.

Fixing up neatnik.net!

Did some writing over the weekend. Really enjoyed it.

Feeling under the weather.

Fluttering away.

Finally sitting down to write a small (digital) book.

DNS! DNS! DNS!

Configuring a new server (a beefy one this time).

All out. Nothing left.

Enjoying the big tree in our garden.

Digging into ancient omg.lol billing code for a special secret thing.

Looking for a specific Hanafuda card.

Staying out of this one.

Heads down for a bit.

Updated the omg.lol/pronouns.page integration to use the latest pronouns.page API. (If you didn’t know, you can drop a link to your Pronouns Page beside the "Pronouns" field on your omg.lol profile page, and it'll fetch that for you and link back to your pronouns.page profile.)

Saw a little carpenter bee friend at the flower shop, crawling around and searching for nectar, just happily doing its thing.

Got some really nice advice from someone kind enough to share it. Words that I really needed to hear, at just the right moment. Truly a gift.

Settling in to watch some more Black Mirror.

Working on my SVG animation skills! (Have you tried clicking around the top of the omg.lol landing page?)

Tickets for Princess Mononoke acquired!

Received some very lovely mail earlier. Hand-written, and from across the ocean! It really brightened my day.

Having a relaxing evening after a super active (but great) day.

Pretty sure I have the flu.

Almost finished with a new style.

Getting there...

85 days until Severance returns!

Doing a larger-than-normal amount of writing.

Supporting Relay for St. Jude in as many ways as I can!

Added RSS and JSON feeds to status.lol. (We only had Atom before!)

Behind on everything, but determined to catch up.

Making some exciting changes to enhance omg.lol’s email security.

Enjoying the May flowers.

Metaphorically hibernating through April Fools’ day.

Fighting with a new mail server.

Registering another domain.

Adding the ability to send custom headers when using Statuslog webhooks.

Thawing out after getting holiday lights up and running tonight.

Redoing the home network setup!

Finally coming up for air after a hectic several weeks at work.

Wrangling CSS.

Thinking about how to manage a steady stream of DMs across multiple platforms.

Working on DNS Kitchen!

Fixed a tiny bug affecting HTTP response codes.

Breakfast, best meal of the day.

It’s been a rough week, but we got through it.

So much work to do!

A new project means a new domain.

Doing some long-overdue updates.

Cooking up something new!

Getting Terminal Land to a somewhat more stable state.

Tinkering.

Getting proven.lol up and running soon!

Working on Terminal Land.

Working on .

Fixing bugs!

Bringing Infrastructure Month to a close with some amazing new infrastructure!

Restoring status.lol/Mastodon cross-posting.

Setting up an entirely new globally-distributed load-balanced infrastructure for omg.lol. Like a grown-up.

Finally sitting down to make some long overdue videos!

Loving the new status.log app!

Taking it easy over the weekend.

Connecting social.lol with status.lol a tiny bit more.

Happy lunar new year!

Building some tools that will hopefully make it easier to keep up with growth!

Working on implementing a proper CDN.

Yet another iron in the fire!

Working out the final details of the omg.lol member referral program.

Bought another domain.

Loving these updates to @joanna’s status.log app!

Testing a beautiful new Statuslog app!

DNS.

Designing and printing some backing cards.

Webhooks for the Statuslog? Why not!

Building! (Well, typing, but same thing in this case.)

Enjoying a rare November snowfall.

Streaming some omg.lol and social.lol stuff at .

Just recorded my second podcast episode ever!

Watching the social.lol Mastodon Sidekiq enqueued count like a paranoid hawk.

Getting there, slowly (but steadily).

Getting ready for Halloween!

Trying to stay on top of everything!

Streaming some live omg.lol stuff!

Working on Passkey support for omg.lol.

Time to sleep!

Tightening up some design stuff.

Working on a new caching setup for omg.lol stuff.

Snoozing.

Lunch!

Fixed a small bug in one place that somehow also solved an entirely unrelated challenge somewhere else. Nice!

It’s Friday!

Focusing on time management.

DNS

Writing a DNS API that works with another DNS API.

Going to hunker down into a get-stuff-done mode this week. Might be a little quieter than usual, but it’ll be worth it if I can finally cross the finish line with this service update!

Testing skelly’s Statuslog app on iOS!

Watching the F1 Japanese Grand Prix.

Refining.

Getting ready to make a nice cup of tea.

status.lol bugs fixed! Sorry if you noticed anything wacky while I was working on it.

Fixing a couple more status.lol bugs. Apologies for any disruptions!

Heavy lifting underway, but getting closer to the launch!

Working on API documentation.

It works!

Testing status.lol + social.lol integration.

Really enjoying the start of spooky season.

Deep dish pizza for dinner!

Planning out details of the omg.lol upgrade.

Testing Sarcassem’s latest Shortcut integration with status.lol!

Testing the new status value in this very API call!

Testing a new endpoint!

Enjoying some coffee

Just had one of those naps where you wake up not knowing what day it is. Needed sleep!

My late night work is finished. Time for sleep!

Browsing .

Busy day, lots of work meetings.

Made some small cosmetic updates to status.lol. Really happy with how they turned out!

Just fixed an irksome bug!

Designing stuff!

Working on a plan to finish a ton of unfinished stuff.

Presentation went well!

About to give a presentation at work.

Just posted this through the new Statuslog UI on !

Experimenting with emoji stuff.

Nearly finished with the status.lol embedded scripting thing...

Fixing bugs!

Testing Vukky’s statuslog poster thing!

Just enjoyed a delicious Fuji apple.

Trying out some stuff with colors.

Building a little personal status sharing service!

Bought another domain...