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Went out to see the partial solar eclipse this evening… Quite a lot of other people were out and about with their cars parked on the sides of the roads in the countryside, presumably doing the same thing.

I recently bought an Evoworks Evo80 mechanical keyboard following a recommendation to me after I was looking for a new decent keyboard, having been using a very cheap / budget Kensington one I got as a ‘placeholder’ since needing a new desktop keyboard after I got back to the UK (I actually didn’t need one until December, as I was only using my laptops until then). I was after a UK / ISO one, as that was my preference: I do much prefer the larger Enter key of the ISO layout, but I have learnt…

Now that I’m commuting regularly again using UK public transport, given the occasional (at least so far for me on the days I commute!) delays and cancellations to services that tend to happen, I was looking for a simple iOS app or website that would allow me to very easily see at a glance what the trains for the next hour or so looked like in terms of possible delays or cancellations. There are a plethora of train and transport apps out there for iOS - and similarly there are many websites…