Let’s Talk Steam Machine

Valve finally counted to Three.

I Accidentally Did a DoS Attack On My PDS

How not to make a first impression.

croft.click and the Paralysis of Possibility

...I guess I could ask my dad if he wants a redirect link to his business?

Writing in Public: Why My Blog Has No Theme

something that I didn't need to justify, but here's my reasons.

An American Werewolf in London: The Streaming Shuffle Nobody Asked For

Ah yes, tempting a werewolf with raw meat into one cage and to the next, surely that won't go wrong!

Why Romance Language Word Order Sometimes Makes More Sense Than English

This is one of those spontaneous thoughts that just popped into my head, the kind that refuses to leave until I've written it out properly. So here we are.

Theory: How Long Did It Take?

In 'An American Werewolf in London', How Long Did Jack Walk?

Samhain in the Shadow of Snow

Honour, endings and the quiet rites Christmas swallowed

The Clock's Going Back!

a twice-yearly ritual I still don't understand

Completing My Leaflet Migration (And Feeling a Bit Dejected About Link Rot)

I've finally done it. The Leaflet migration is complete.

Leaflet Migration

Well I guess this is a thing now. Doing this out of spite of myself, like usual.

A Number on a Spreadsheet: When Everything Becomes Data

When You Hit RESET (and Actually Mean It) – ewancroft.uk v10

Redesign... Redesign... Redesign...

Bonfire Night: Fireworks without the Fire

Building Tangled Sync: A Few Hours of Work That Doesn't Quite Work Yet (And Why That's Bloody Frustrating)

The Frustrating Erasure of English (English English) in American Tech: a Rant

When the Clock Lies: On Time, Perception, and Why Nothing's Really Happening in Order

I Don't Really Care If Bluesky Dies (As Long As AT Protocol Survives)

Why I've Grown to Hate Spotify: A Tale of Ads and Lost Control

Hashtags Walked So Custom Feeds Could Run: Why Discovery on Bluesky Feels Different

How Greek and Celtic Myth (and a Kids’ Show) Shaped My Voice

A Few Hours of Hyperfocus: My Latest Website Updates

How Streaming Tried to Kill Digital Piracy, and Why Piracy Won

A Love Letter to Mac: Why I Choose Apple's Ecosystem

Link Rot and Eight Iterations of ewancroft.uk

A Gentle Look at Lucky Maths: When Good Intentions Meet Web Design Reality

Wolf King vs. Wereworld: My Completely Unqualified Take on Netflix's Adaptation

Techno-Illiteracy and the Death of Critical Thinking (A Mildly Unhinged Rant)

Howling at the Digital Moon: A Theoretical Wolf-Themed Bluesky Client

Howling Through Time and Space: Doctor Who’s Post-2005 Lycanthropic Legacy

Rustlings Session 5: Quick Stretches and Type Systems

Building a WhiteWind to Leaflet Converter Out of Pure Spite

Stepping Back: A Temporary Digital Detox

Creating a did:web ATProto Identity: A Proof of Concept

Picking Sides in the Protocol Wars

The Inevitable Upgrade: From M2 to M4 Mac Mini

Why I Stick with SvelteKit: A Personal Reflection on My Web Development Stack

iOS and macOS 26 Public Beta: Why I'm Tempted, and Why I'm Absolutely Not Installing It

Rustlings Session 4: Error Handling and Existential Crisis

Rustlings Session 3: When Your Sleep Schedule is More Nocturnal Than Your Code

Rustlings Session 2: Structs, Enums, and Why I'm an Idiot (Sections 7-9)

Rustlings Session 1: First Steps into Rust (Sections 0-6)

Why I Have a Website

Dynamic OG Images: A Journey Through Development Hell

The Linguistic Archaeology of English: How Latin and Greek Built Our Modern Vocabulary

Introducing Linkat Directory: A 'Link-in-Bio' Frontend

The iMac Server

Introducing My Website Template: From Personal Site to Community Resource

The Profile Layout Refresh

A Wii Nostalgia Trip

On Fantasy Names, Therianthropy, and My Slightly Obsessive Brain

"What Mark will I Leave on Earth?"

Building a Moon Phase Bot for Bluesky: Because Every Platform Needs More Werewolf Energy

The Case for Multiple Methods

Hosting My Own Minecraft Server: Replacing Aternos with a Mac Mini

Saying Hello to Mastodon Again

Testing Leaflet

Why I Chose My Own Domain: A Personal Reflection

My Journey to NixOS: A macOS User's Perspective

Mental Reset

Patterns and My Neurodivergency

My Reflection on (nearly) a year on Bluesky (and the ATmosphere at large)

Reverse Engineering an Apple Shortcut and Making It Mine

Struggles Adapting to the AT Protocol

This new protocol is neat but... I find it difficult.

5 Years and 153 Poems

Wolfblood: A Personal Retrospective

Comfort shows are great.

Arguments on Operating Systems are Stupid, Actually

Creative Writing - A Fictional Dive into Philosophy through the Absurd

A Look at Summer

Gazing Into the Bluesky

Another alternative... In the skies?

Mastodon Markov Chains, and Why I Created My Own

Fiddling with markov chains!

When Your Platform Disappears: The Queer.AF Shutdown

This is a hot topic right now, huh?

Logistics of Lycanthropy and its Romanticisation

A curse turned desire.

Creative Writing - Moonlight

Review: An American Werewolf in London made-for-radio BBC audio adaptation

Finding an Alternative: Life after Twitter

Silos are everywhere.