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### Family

Hanging out with and spending as much time as possible with my lovely wife, kids and rescue dogs (we've got a guinea pig too).

### Getting tattooed

It's been an ongoing process of recovering from sessions, resuming my exercising routine and returning for the next session. I have two chest pieces, a new piece above my left knee and we've been working away on my right arm.

### Making

Scrobbling and data ownership: I've been building and improving my self-hosted scrobbling solution. I've been working to bring my movie, TV and reading data in-house too.

Ad and tracker-blocking: I've been updating and maintaining a list of ad and tracker-blocking tools that I'm happy to take contributions to. Modern advertising is awful and intrusive. Do what you can to block it.

Fiddling with simple web components: I've been working on and incorporating some web components into this site. I've built a theme toggle, select-based pagination and one that loads text from an API (used on my home page).

Encouraging folks to block AI web crawlers: they're insidious, abusive and should be blocked. I'm happy to take contributions, once again, as we encourage folks to block them as best they can.

### Mentoring

I've been mentoring through Underdog Devs on and off for a few years now and find it incredibly rewarding.

This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one too.