What is Simon Cox up to now?
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Last updated: 26 January 2026
Been an odd couple of weeks. Have spent an inordinate amount of time on the next local magazine that I got off to print last night. Bit longer than normal as it's the 50th year it has been running - I have only been creating the page layout, volunteering, on it for about 11 years of that,. It's is only 4 times a year and brings together the local villages really well.
Work
Shifted a Wordpress site to a new host - not that keen on WP sites as they are usually a big old mess. This one needed a lot of updates and fixes that for various reasons I wasn't able to do on the old hosting. Now waiting for the final sign off and then we can do the DNS changes.
Also have another site for a local business launched. I need to spend some time on the local SEO to get the business rolling in.
If you want me to have a look at a project of yours, please do get in touch.
Hobbies
I built a web page cataloguing our CD collection. Started with a Google sheet where I input the barcode, or any code I can find, and that triggers a call to an API or two to bring back the data about that disk. I then download the csv file, add it into an 11ty data folder and run a script to pull the images from the APIs. If there are missing images i manually source them and add them. Then I build the page and the result is a web page grid of the albums we have that is searchable, sortable by artists, album and release date. That's it - not going to publish it and I don't know what to do with it now. We don't even have a cd player any more.
Progress on Whitesands Quay. Slipway former is in place and I have build the mole of the quayside wall. That's clad in Wills sheeting and half painted. I am also making progress on the main quayside wall. I need to write this up at some point!
Gaming
Went through all the endings in Cyberpunk 2077 - great game! Got a big board game session coming up end of Feb so need to gen up on some rules.
Always happy to play online so please do invite me for a game of something! Me on board Game Arena.
Ideas
About Now Ideas is an interesting site that allows searching of small sites like this that have About, Now and Ideas pages. This site now has all three!
What I'm Listening To Now
This is a list of the 18 tracks I last listened to on Spotify. If you give the page a refresh in a few moments it might update if I am listening right now!
and a bigger list of the tracks I listened to just before these.
NowNowNow
This page was inspired by the Now Now Now movement. You can find out more about it at nownownow.com.