This is my notebook. Any patterns or themes are in hindsight. Typos are usually fixed eventually.

I’m mid-50s man living in Birmingham, UK. I’ve been chucking stuff up on websites since 1999, before that zines. This is all I know. Currently mentally and physically disabled by post-Covid chronic fatigue, mostly homebound, and trying to figure out how to be in the world again, online and off.

I write in a text document throughout the day, making note of any interesting links I come across and thoughts that have crossed my mind. Come the evening I knock it into shape, flesh out my notes, add a photo (usually from the garden) and publish. In many ways it’s a classic weblog. A log of the web as I experienced it. I hope you find it useful and entertaining.

The initial goal was to get me writing regularly in a way that doesn’t trigger my chronic fatigue, with a second aim to reach out to the communities I used to be involved with before Covid. Now I’ve mostly established that beachhead the next stage is figuring out what I can do within these parameters and how I can maybe make myself useful.

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Posts are written in a text document in Markdown using iA writer on my Mac.

The blog runs on Micro.blog and is crossposted to Mastodon and Bluesky. Daily notes are sent out by email.

RSS feed: notes.peteashton.com/feed.xml

All my online activities are listed at peteashton.com.

Email is always the best way to contact me: pete@peteashton.com

Last edited 26 Aug 26