Joe Heyburn
jdheyburn.co.uk
Joe Heyburn
@jdheyburn.co.uk
Naturally curious techie doing kubernetes, selfhosted, infra, and other software things

Passionate about automation, and messing about with NixOS at home. Interested in PKM and am an active user of Obsidian.
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:

One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Wow... Todoist Pro subscription increasing from $4 to $7 a month.

There's a legacy Pro plan which I think I'm staying on, without any new features.

Probably time to move on...
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Having a purge of RSS feeds in Reader, I had 1000 unread and found myself not reading enough articles. Keep it high signal low noise!
October 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
On Monday I'm setting off on a 🚂 to Edinburgh for #KCDUK! Who else is going? 🔊
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Two KubeCon proposals submitted today; one lightning and one non-lightning, both on Valkey 🤞🏻
October 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Enjoyed getting my first Lime scooter across London to pick up some records #tubestrike
September 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I'm pretty sure a contactless card that was tapped-in at 09:29 is charged as a peak time journey. Even if the train departs the station at 09:32, making it off-peak.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scotland scraps peak rail fares - will the rest of the UK follow?
Working patterns have changed since Covid so could peak train pricing be phased out altogether?
www.bbc.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I've not been keeping up to date writing monthly summaries in my #journal. But this afternoon I've had Claude read my weekly and daily notes and writing the summaries for me!

And with the examples I've already written, it's gotten pretty good on how I like them formatted too.
August 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New biosphere album announced 🗣️🗣️
May 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New blog post time! Reorganising my #Obsidian journal notes with a little help from my mate Claude!

jdheyburn.co.uk/blog/reorgan...
Reorganising Obsidian Journal Notes
Using AI to help restructure my journal notes in an Obsidian vault
jdheyburn.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Bandcamp best of #ambient last month has a lot of things I'd already wishlished ❤️

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-ambient/the-best-ambient-music-on-bandcamp-february-2025
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, February 2025 | Bandcamp Daily
Our guide to the month’s crucial ambient LPs.
daily.bandcamp.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Purging my #SnipD podcast backlog queue, ain't enough time for 300 episodes. Maybe there is for 200...

Unsubscribed form The Rest Is Entertainment, The Weekly Show, Off Menu. Opting for more tech podcasts.
March 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Ganz leise kommt die Nacht (Official Video)
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Some #bandcamp bits I got this week, a mix of #ambient, #dubtechno, and #house

ASC - Tales of Introspection (quiet details)

quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...
Tales of Introspection, by ASC
8 track album
quietdetails.bandcamp.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Ambient label Peak are doing a name-your-price until 9pm tonight, so I kopped a couple of lush sounds

Frame 352 - Chico Knows

peak352.bandcamp.com/album/chico-...
Chico Knows, by Frame 352
9 track album
peak352.bandcamp.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I found a bug in my #Obsidian daily notes template where Sundays weren't being templated as the last day of the week.

Changing moment locale to `en-gb` fixed it for me. I've updated my blog post and gists for the same.

https://jdheyburn.co.uk/blog/how-i-use-obsidian-to-journal/
How I use Obsidian to journal · JDHeyburn
I write about how I use Obsidian to journal each day, week, month, and quarter - while showing how its done for you to try it out yourself.
jdheyburn.co.uk
January 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trump's not even president yet and is already causing whiplash inducing head turns with TikTok
January 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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TikTok ban is this generation’s Iran hostage crisis
January 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Bandcamp haul - a mixture of beats and sans beats

990x - Ruins (sferic)

sferic.bandcamp.com/album/ruins
Ruins, by 990x
8 track album
sferic.bandcamp.com
January 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Oh boy, first great album of 2025 is here

stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/lust-1
Lust (1), by Voice Actor, Squu
14 track album
stroomtv.bandcamp.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees

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December 22, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Every year @boomkat.com release charts of the best albums of the year - 172 of them this year, and clicking through each of them to find the most popular releases is tedious. So I wrote a scraper to see what releases appear in the most charts.
December 20, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Ordered a Boox Note Air 4 C, ships in 5 days - here's hoping it arrives before Christmas! Delivered by Hermes in the UK though; probably the worst courier ever.
December 15, 2024 at 7:20 PM
I'm gonna need a miracle to get through 200 queued podcasts on #SnipD
December 10, 2024 at 8:25 AM