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date: 2026-08-20 12:56
title: WeakNotes 2026-08-20
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Down with a cold at the weekend, but still, it seems, in remission from the ME. I continue to have some autonomic dysfunction though and some other bits I'll be talking to the GP about. But intend to make hay whilst the sun is shining.

Hopefully I'll be able to return to work soon. in the mean time I am building up my screen time and working on some small side projects.

- I have been working on a new football thing. Pretty happy with it, except for a few bugs or unhandled situations is probably fairer, e.g. Southampton starting the season on -4 points.
- Apropos of nothing, also building a redundancy calculator.
- Published a design refresh of [Cheltenham Open Data](https://cheltenham-od.uk)
- I have an idea whereby a social media site is built like the textlog pick below, but all usernames must be a domain name and are validated by DNS records on every log in. It would gave RSS in and out of course.

## Picks

- [Shinrin-yoku](https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/08/16/shinrin-yoku/?ref=thechelsuk)
- [Textlog.cc](https://textlog.cc/about?ref=thechelsuk) is a text-based social media site, with an eager and speedy dev, a decent API and nearly 400 users already. I wish I had thought of this myself
- [Cybaa.io](https://cyba.io?ref=thechelsuk) Is such a handy set of free tools - whenever I do anything with DNS, MX records, DMARC, this is my go to source to check for issues
- [How I experience the web today](https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/)