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Matthew Lang

Family guy and web developer

Skipping next year's Techo

I’m almost entirely sure that I won’t be buying a Techo for next year.

This year’s Techo is mainly blank. Despite many attempts at using it daily, it’s mostly just been gathering dust on my desk, with only a dozen pages filled in at best. Last year’s Techo was also the same, largely blank. In fact, I remember binning last year’s Techo around November time after believing there was no point in holding onto a largely blank planner for the year.

This is just one of a few things I used to do but don’t anymore. Reading and sketching were two things I did almost daily a couple of years ago. I haven’t finished a book in a long time or sketched for nearly a year.

I would like to say it’s frustrating, and I would love to kickstart doing these things again. However, I look back at how long it’s been not doing them and decide it’s probably not worth starting if I’m just going to stop again.

I switched out the default keycaps on my Nuphy Air75 for the Maya Imprint keycaps I ordered with the keyboard. Love this keyboard!

A mechanical keyboard with white, light gray, and blue keys, some of which have unique icons, is shown from an angled top view.

Happy birthday, Drew! I hope you had a good day and enjoyed all your birthday goodies.

Starting the day with a stack of presents, then a round of golf with your brother, dinner at the golf club and finally some cake. Definitely a good day.

A woman and a young boy are celebrating with a lit birthday cake adorned with colorful decorations on a red tray, standing in front of a gray couch and framed artwork.

It feels like I have unlocked my iPhone from 10 years ago. I installed both iA Writer and Unread after seeing them in my RSS feeds this morning.

I’m tempted to go all in with Micro.blog again. It has enough features for me to consider ditching my own website, as well as a few new themes that are both nice to look at and customisable.

My Lego wishlist is just over £1800. Managed to get it down from £2000.

I love Robert Downey Jr.’s casting as Doctor Doom and Marvel’s return of the Russo brothers. After months of speculation about the MCU’s direction, I’m glad to see new Avengers and Marvel movies scheduled for the next few years.