Ewan’s Blog
I ramble, enjoy.
Articles
100 articles
Not Everything Is About The Money
Against Entropy
The Ouroboros of AI Detection: When Logic Becomes a Liability
Taking Cryptocurrencies
Taking a break
Something’s Off With Spelling Online, and It’s Getting Worse
After Cook
Disconnection in Reaction to Trauma
The Liminal Man
Bismuth: On Refraction and Conversion
So I Had Brain Surgery
The Grass Is Greener (But I'm Not Moving)
Dear Manager
Four Days with Letta Code
Self-Hosted Analytics with Umami
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and Why I Absolutely Love It
The Timer Problem
Criminal by Birth
Dipping a Toe into the Fediverse (Again)
Life Update: Controlled Chaos and March
There Is Nuance, Nae a Binary
Silver Fire – Commissions Are Open (and Half Off)
The Stranger in the Mirror
We Were Promised a Future. We Got a Spreadsheet.
I Made a Ko-fi (And I'm a Bit Embarrassed About It)
The Machine That Runs Whether I Remember Setting It Up or Not
The Soundtrack of My College Years: A Timeline (Ages 16–20)
~/.config/nix-config Rewritten: What I Actually Changed (And Why)
~/.config/nix-config: Three Machines, One Config (Sort Of)
Back to NixOS (and completely winging it)
Malachite: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Import My Scrobbles
Hit By A Silver Bullet: The Timing of Being Early with W
W. What's it Worth?
Why Don't More People Use Signal?
Standard.site and Why Coordination Matters More Than You Think
The AI Hype Train Has Derailed the PC Market, and We're Paying for the Wreckage
I Hope 2026 Will Be Better
Musical Identity and Confusion
Joining Jollywhoppers: On Collaboration, Minecraft Mods, and Finding Your People
Privacy is Important
Welcome to Macintosh: Documenting a Hidden Easter Egg
An American Werewolf in London: A Preventable Tragedy
How Belief Shapes You When You're Not Looking
Giving Up on Rust: A Post-Mortem
The Yew Has Wilted, and I Can't Water It
An Autistic Silver Bullet
Building a Decentralised Link Shortener with AT Protocol
On Scottish Gaelic, Heritage, and the Right to Care
You Can Just Do Things
Let’s Talk Steam Machine
I Accidentally Did a DoS Attack On My PDS
croft.click and the Paralysis of Possibility
Writing in Public: Why My Blog Has No Theme
An American Werewolf in London: The Streaming Shuffle Nobody Asked For
Why Romance Language Word Order Sometimes Makes More Sense Than English
Theory: How Long Did It Take?
Samhain in the Shadow of Snow
The Clock's Going Back!
Completing My Leaflet Migration (And Feeling a Bit Dejected About Link Rot)
Leaflet Migration
A Number on a Spreadsheet: When Everything Becomes Data
When You Hit RESET (and Actually Mean It) – ewancroft.uk v10
Bonfire Night: Fireworks without the Fire
Building Tangled Sync: A Few Hours of Work That Doesn't Quite Work Yet (And Why That's Bloody Frustrating)
The Frustrating Erasure of English (English English) in American Tech: a Rant
When the Clock Lies: On Time, Perception, and Why Nothing's Really Happening in Order
I Don't Really Care If Bluesky Dies (As Long As AT Protocol Survives)
Why I've Grown to Hate Spotify: A Tale of Ads and Lost Control
Hashtags Walked So Custom Feeds Could Run: Why Discovery on Bluesky Feels Different
How Greek and Celtic Myth (and a Kids’ Show) Shaped My Voice
A Few Hours of Hyperfocus: My Latest Website Updates
How Streaming Tried to Kill Digital Piracy, and Why Piracy Won
A Love Letter to Mac: Why I Choose Apple's Ecosystem
Link Rot and Eight Iterations of ewancroft.uk
A Gentle Look at Lucky Maths: When Good Intentions Meet Web Design Reality
Wolf King vs. Wereworld: My Completely Unqualified Take on Netflix's Adaptation
Techno-Illiteracy and the Death of Critical Thinking (A Mildly Unhinged Rant)
Howling at the Digital Moon: A Theoretical Wolf-Themed Bluesky Client
Howling Through Time and Space: Doctor Who’s Post-2005 Lycanthropic Legacy
Rustlings Session 5: Quick Stretches and Type Systems
Building a WhiteWind to Leaflet Converter Out of Pure Spite
Stepping Back: A Temporary Digital Detox
Creating a did:web ATProto Identity: A Proof of Concept
Picking Sides in the Protocol Wars
The Inevitable Upgrade: From M2 to M4 Mac Mini
Why I Stick with SvelteKit: A Personal Reflection on My Web Development Stack
iOS and macOS 26 Public Beta: Why I'm Tempted, and Why I'm Absolutely Not Installing It
Rustlings Session 4: Error Handling and Existential Crisis
Rustlings Session 3: When Your Sleep Schedule is More Nocturnal Than Your Code
Rustlings Session 2: Structs, Enums, and Why I'm an Idiot (Sections 7-9)
Rustlings Session 1: First Steps into Rust (Sections 0-6)
Why I Have a Website
Dynamic OG Images: A Journey Through Development Hell
The Linguistic Archaeology of English: How Latin and Greek Built Our Modern Vocabulary
Introducing Linkat Directory: A 'Link-in-Bio' Frontend
The iMac Server
The Profile Layout Refresh
A Wii Nostalgia Trip
On Fantasy Names, Therianthropy, and My Slightly Obsessive Brain
"What Mark will I Leave on Earth?"