LeftFooted's Antics

LeftFooted's Antics

Here... I just write about the most random stuff


This is idiotic and completely unacceptable, why are we putting up with this?

11 Sep 2026 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted $0.05

Last weekend, a friend from my hometown paid me a visit. We had fun, but unfortunately said friend, we shall call this friend Tall Person, lost their cardholder at some point. We tried everything but we couldn't retrieve it. The silver lining was th...

Publish0x has finally added a feature I've been waiting for for years

8 Sep 2026 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted $0.06

The Publish0x website apparently just went through a comprehensive UI overhaul and there's one thing that stood out to me. Aside from the new UI, the new homepage, the new interface for when you want to write a new article and so on, it now includes...

I gave my hat to a stranger

8 Sep 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.02

I've got a friend from Texas. You can tell he's from Texas, because he tells you every seven seconds. Most of his sentences start with "back in Texas". His accent is also a dead giveaway. Like other Texans, he's rich. Old money, mostly coming from o...

I'm going back to wired (headphones)

31 Aug 2026 1 minute read 12 comments LeftFooted $0.05

I recently mislaid my very new, very expensive AirPods Max. By which I mean I left them on a seat in an airport lounge and only realised when it was too late. Apple's Find My pings their position very close to the airport, at a private residence, w...

My AirPods saga

26 Aug 2026 2 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.07

You'd imagine that can't be a saga with AirPods. You buy them, you use them. That's it. But in my case, there was a saga. Until about 5-6 years ago, I'd probably never bought a pair of headphones. Headphones used to be included in the box with a new...

This particular business is booming

25 Jul 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.04

The auction business is absolutely exploding. It's pretty crazy. Not long ago, auction houses would mostly auction off cars and watches, and occasionally things like wines and so on. Now, everything is sold at auction all the time, and there are m...

Let's face it: we've had it too good for too long, but maybe now it's over

24 Jul 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.06

I know a lot of people love to hate Ryanair but the low-cost carrier pioneered a way of travelling that made it possible for millions of people to travel cheaply. For my parents' generation - we don't have to go that far in the past - a weekend geta...

I finally fixed my moka - which proves that AI can be useful for very important things that aren't important

28 Jun 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.05

I'm beginning to realise that AI can be very good at helping you with unimportant things that are important. As in, important to you. When we look at the universe, my coffee moka isn't a huge deal, but it is for me, because for about two months, I...

This is why no one likes HR

7 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.07

Anglophone and Anglo-Saxon cultures have given the world a lot of great things, but corporatism isn't one of them. So many of the issues we see today are caused by self-imposed bulls**t we have to deal with it. The peak of which is probably HR. No...

I wish I had this guy's problem

16 May 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.07

Back when I was a teenager, which is not that long ago, rappers would make money, but not that much money. They'd be relegation-zone, mid-level EPL player rich, not Man City rich. I still remember an MTV Cribs video, for example, where G-Unit membe...