mark hysted

Learning about minimalism, productivity and what makes us humans tick. I like marmite, bad dad jokes, and good coffee.

  • I’ve turned comments back on

    The general view is that comments on your blog is a bad thing, most tend not to use them. I do notice a bit of a resurgence, perhaps the general turn off from the traditional social media outlets like X means that people now what the conversations on their blog to be held by them,…

  • happy with my blog – now what?

    Some of you may have noticed that I change blog platforms regularly, I love all the new ideas and how different blog providers have slightly different approaches. It allows us bloggers to find the tool that suits.

  • testing ActivityPub

    This is a test of the updated version 8.0 of the WordPress ActivityPub plugin. It looks to be much improved, so putting it back onto the site. If you reply, it should appear as a comment in the blog post.

  • even the brits are fed up of the rain

    In the UK we are used to the rain, we get a lot of it. We put up with it because it makes us such a green country, makes stuff grow and we like to potter about with our trousers rolled up in a cool river on a hot sunny day.

  • as if by magic – the AirPod reappeared

    As disappointingly forecast in my previous post, the missing AirPod has reappeared. It reappeared from the back of my bedside table on the 15th Jan, nine days after my £76 replacement had arrived, very efficiently, from Apple.

  • for faffs sake – I lost an AirPod

    I wrote some time ago about the benefits of wired headphones, including the fairly obvious fact that they are harder to lose. Well, I bought some AirPods 4 NC and had been getting along fine until I was on holiday over the Christmas period, opened the case and found the left AirPod missing.

  • things I will spend more time on in 2026

    This is the inverse of my recent post about stuff I’d like to dump in 2026. It is inspired by Jon’s blog where he added an invest list under his own to dump list.

  • things I might dump in 2026

    A list of things I might dump in 2026. ‘social’ media snickers duo changing blog platforms the second cup of coffee the news carbs the Apple Watch I never use some old shirts I never wear work backpack pretending to journal podcasts that just interview people with a new book to sell eating whilst walking…

  • no more decisions please

    We have been having some work done to the house, requiring a lot of decisions. Colours of things, types of things, position of things, order of doing things, do we want to do this whilst I’m here things?