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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • As a forty-something year old, I’ve also been struggling with digital overload and have spent this year working on it. One of the biggest things is reducing emails. I’ve created a new email account and started migrating anything I want to keep using over to that address, and whenever I get an email from a mailing list, I immediately unsubscribe. I remove email notifications from any service I’m still using but don’t want to bug me, and I close any account I don’t want anymore. I’ve gone from around 200 emails a day to less than 10, and most of those are for a job search which will be unsubscribed from as soon as I’m employed again.

    A lot of work to get this far, but so worth it.


  • Thanks very much for your advice. I’ve reworked my CV using Open Resume and updated it on all the job boards I’ve been using, hopefully that gets me further.

    I’m also continuing to update my portfolio website and building out apps in different languages and frameworks to demonstrate my skills.

    It just looks like the job market sucks at the mo and I just need to keep trudging through.

    Thanks again.





  • The Evil Dead trilogy.

    A younger friend of mine had started playing the Evil Dead game with some of his friends but had never seen the movies. I’d not watched them in years, so I invited him over to marathon them one weekend. We drank, ate pizza and did the whole trilogy, and we had an absolute blast. He loved how different each movie was, especially Heart of Darkness. How each one gets sillier than the last.

    A few months later, Evil Dead Rise came out in the cinema, so we had to go see it. While this was much more a straight up horror movie (with a small amount of the Evil Dead silliness), I still enjoyed it (I find horror movies quite funny, like an emotional rollercoaster), but he was hiding behind his coat the whole time, terrified of what was happening on screen. That made it even funnier for me.