Hello! Привіт! I'm James (/d͡ʒeɪmz/) (also capjamesg). My pronouns are he/him/his. I live in Scotland. This is my blog.

I hope this website can bring a little bit of joy into your day.

Writings

  • How to export images from Google Docs as a folder

    Published on under the IndieWeb category.

    When you copy images directly from a Google Document into Ghost, and potentially other rich text editors, URL references to the images in the Document are copied instead of the underlying image. This means that if the document is deleted, the images will be broken.

  • Search engine shortcuts in Firefox

    Published on under the IndieWeb category.

    Firefox has a feature that lets you map a character or sequence of characters typed in the Firefox address bar to a custom search engine. For example, you can map w to Wikipedia, so the query w coffee would take you to the Wikipedia search page for coffee (which auto-redirects to the Wikipedia page for coffee).

  • Morning coffee

    Published on under the Coffee category.

    Your eyes open to see rays of the autumn sun peeking through your dark curtains. A soft alarm rings in the background. It’s time to start your day.

  • Stargazing

    Published on under the Life category.

  • in design, craft: this week in my blog

    Published on under the Weeknote category.

    Over the last few months, I have been striving to learn more about design. With the help of friends, I have been building the muscle of stopping to look at web pages and asking myself many questions, like: What is the purpose of this web page?, ...

  • The writing equivalent of a duet

    Published on under the Ideas category.

    At Homebrew Writing Club yesterday, someone asked 'What is the writing equivalent of a duet?' I explore this concept with reference to collaborative writing, then extend the idea further of applying musical metaphors to writing. This led to thinking about the literary equivalent of playlists, remixing, and more.

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