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I'm Steve — tech tinkerer, guitar modder, writer, and unlicensed philosopher living in the olive-covered hills of Andalucía. This site is where I store my musings, rants, projects, and passion projects. Grab a coffee and have a scroll.

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What I’m Up To Now

  • Rebuilding this site after my host had a siesta
  • Spray-painting guitars under the Andalusian sun
  • Running AI models locally and muttering about privacy

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Losing Weight: 30kg and Counting

A lifelong porker’s notes on what helped him drop from 125kg to 95kg, starting with a graph.
Losing Weight: 30kg and Counting
Yes, I’ve always been a porker. I think I was eight and a half pounds at birth, or something ridiculous that gave my mother quite a shock. Apart from a brief growth spurt during my teens, when the increase in vertical size overtook the horizontal one for a few memorable years, I’ve always been the sort of chap who has trouble buying clothes off the peg. That’s why I was exceptionally chuffed when I got on the scales last week and saw my weight had hit 95kg. That’s still a lot, and... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Tuesday, October 27, 2026 12:50:00 PM Categories: Health Low Carb Sobriety Weight Loss Weight Loss Tips
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When I'm 64 I'll learn how to read

How I finally discovered the joy of audiobooks
When I
Something weird happened to me this year that I want to share with you. I've long been aware that I have a problem reading books. I heard the term "regressive reader" years ago and immediately thought it described the issue to a T. I don't take information in particularly well, and often find myself flicking backwards, rereading sentences and paragraphs that have already passed my eyes. While I've always enjoyed what books have to teach me, I've found the process of getting it off the... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, September 27, 2026 4:24:00 PM Categories: AI Language Learning Psychology Reading Thinking
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My Data Has Claimed Asylum in a German Supermarket

Why I quit Dropbox, and why Europe is quietly doing the same thing with its fighter jets, its spy software and its money
My Data Has Claimed Asylum in a German Supermarket
I quit Dropbox this month and moved my files to Proton Drive. Not earth shattering news but one small step for man and all that. Nobody at Dropbox will have noticed. It was one bloke moving a few gigabytes from one cloud-shaped box to another. But the reason I did it is a small symptom of something much bigger going on, and the bigger thing is worth a blog post. I can't remember exactly when I signed up to Dropbox, but it was well over a decade ago. Back in 2008 it was one of those rare... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Tuesday, August 11, 2026 9:49:00 PM Categories: America Cloud Storage Economy Internet Politics
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