Archive
Browse all 87 blog posts from WhiteWind and Leaflet, organised by date.
2025
December
How Belief Shapes You When You're Not Looking
How the last week turned belief from concept into practice
8 Dec 2025
Giving Up on Rust: A Post-Mortem
I should not be sorry.
7 Dec 2025
The Yew Has Wilted, and I Can't Water It
Anxiety is killing me.
1 Dec 2025
November
An Autistic Silver Bullet
No, I’m not AI. I just write like that.
27 Nov 2025
Building a Decentralised Link Shortener with AT Protocol
Because... well, just because.
24 Nov 2025
On Scottish Gaelic, Heritage, and the Right to Care
I just want Scottish Gaelic to survive.
23 Nov 2025
You Can Just Do Things
An unexpected motto of the Atmosphere
22 Nov 2025
Let’s Talk Steam Machine
Valve finally counted to Three.
18 Nov 2025
I Accidentally Did a DoS Attack On My PDS
How not to make a first impression.
15 Nov 2025
croft.click and the Paralysis of Possibility
...I guess I could ask my dad if he wants a redirect link to his business?
10 Nov 2025
Writing in Public: Why My Blog Has No Theme
something that I didn't need to justify, but here's my reasons.
9 Nov 2025
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!
1 Nov 2025
October
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.
30 Oct 2025
Theory: How Long Did It Take?
In 'An American Werewolf in London', How Long Did Jack Walk?
29 Oct 2025
Samhain in the Shadow of Snow
Honour, endings and the quiet rites Christmas swallowed
26 Oct 2025
Sammy's Dead
Murdered by a vampire right in front of us, poor lass.
26 Oct 2025
The Clock's Going Back!
a twice-yearly ritual I still don't understand
26 Oct 2025
Completing My Leaflet Migration (And Feeling a Bit Dejected About Link Rot)
I've finally done it. The Leaflet migration is complete.
25 Oct 2025
Leaflet Migration
Well I guess this is a thing now. Doing this out of spite of myself, like usual.
24 Oct 2025
A Number on a Spreadsheet: When Everything Becomes Data
21 Oct 2025
When You Hit RESET (and Actually Mean It) – ewancroft.uk v10
Redesign... Redesign... Redesign...
19 Oct 2025
Bonfire Night: Fireworks without the Fire
11 Oct 2025
Building Tangled Sync: A Few Hours of Work That Doesn't Quite Work Yet (And Why That's Bloody Frustrating)
11 Oct 2025
The Frustrating Erasure of English (English English) in American Tech: a Rant
7 Oct 2025
When the Clock Lies: On Time, Perception, and Why Nothing's Really Happening in Order
5 Oct 2025
I Don't Really Care If Bluesky Dies (As Long As AT Protocol Survives)
4 Oct 2025
September
Why I've Grown to Hate Spotify: A Tale of Ads and Lost Control
30 Sept 2025
Hashtags Walked So Custom Feeds Could Run: Why Discovery on Bluesky Feels Different
28 Sept 2025
How Greek and Celtic Myth (and a Kids’ Show) Shaped My Voice
27 Sept 2025
A Few Hours of Hyperfocus: My Latest Website Updates
27 Sept 2025
How Streaming Tried to Kill Digital Piracy, and Why Piracy Won
20 Sept 2025
A Love Letter to Mac: Why I Choose Apple's Ecosystem
15 Sept 2025
Link Rot and Eight Iterations of ewancroft.uk
14 Sept 2025
A Gentle Look at Lucky Maths: When Good Intentions Meet Web Design Reality
13 Sept 2025
Wolf King vs. Wereworld: My Completely Unqualified Take on Netflix's Adaptation
11 Sept 2025
Techno-Illiteracy and the Death of Critical Thinking (A Mildly Unhinged Rant)
6 Sept 2025
Howling at the Digital Moon: A Theoretical Wolf-Themed Bluesky Client
2 Sept 2025
Howling Through Time and Space: Doctor Who’s Post-2005 Lycanthropic Legacy
1 Sept 2025
August
Rustlings Session 5: Quick Stretches and Type Systems
30 Aug 2025
Building a WhiteWind to Leaflet Converter Out of Pure Spite
28 Aug 2025
Stepping Back: A Temporary Digital Detox
13 Aug 2025
Creating a did:web ATProto Identity: A Proof of Concept
10 Aug 2025
Picking Sides in the Protocol Wars
10 Aug 2025
The Inevitable Upgrade: From M2 to M4 Mac Mini
9 Aug 2025
Why I Stick with SvelteKit: A Personal Reflection on My Web Development Stack
5 Aug 2025
iOS and macOS 26 Public Beta: Why I'm Tempted, and Why I'm Absolutely Not Installing It
5 Aug 2025
Rustlings Session 4: Error Handling and Existential Crisis
3 Aug 2025
Rustlings Session 3: When Your Sleep Schedule is More Nocturnal Than Your Code
2 Aug 2025
Rustlings Session 2: Structs, Enums, and Why I'm an Idiot (Sections 7-9)
1 Aug 2025
Rustlings Session 1: First Steps into Rust (Sections 0-6)
1 Aug 2025