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Olly Headey

@olly.world
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internet flâneur · built pagecord, freeagent · photographer olly.world

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Olly Headey @olly.world · 1h
Context switching between dev mode and photographer mode is super difficult. Hard to explain. I’m looking forward to not having to choose anymore ✨
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 1h
So many haters out there. Turn off your socials! Get out more! Breathe!
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Olly Headey 📷 @ollyheadey.com · 6h
I redesigned my photography website #photography #edinburgh
A screenshot of olly's new website home page
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 11h
every month i blog about about the small changes i make to pagecord, here's one for september. who knows if it's useful, but i like keeping track tbh blog.pagecord.com/a-collection...
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A collection of minor improvements (September 2026) - Pagecord Updates
Gallery tiles now use the first image in the post body, not the first image uploaded to the post Importing blogs from Wix is now supported (even though they...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 12h
Things I found and liked while wandering the web this month, have at it olly.world/web-wanderin...
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Web Wanderings (September 2026) - Olly
Fun or interesting discoveries I came across while wandering the web this month. AI is hard to avoid innit? 😬 The FT asks whether AI is affecting what people...
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Olly Headey 📷 @ollyheadey.com · 12h
My spideysense is tingling 🕸️ #photography #streetphotography #edinburgh #bnw #monochromephotography #fujifilm
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 29/09/2026
v0.3.2 of the Pagecord CLI has been released. Now it can read and edit posts, and it ships with a skill for AI agents github.com/lylo/pagecor...
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GitHub - lylo/pagecord-cli: Control Pagecord from the command line. Or let your agent do it for you! 🤖
Control Pagecord from the command line. Or let your agent do it for you! 🤖 - lylo/pagecord-cli
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 29/09/2026
Alt text is now editable in Pagecord. I wrote it up on the blog. blog.pagecord.com/describe-you... #blogging #accessibility #opensource
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Describe your images with alt text - Pagecord Updates
Every image on a web page can have a short description called alt text. It's important for accessibility – people with sight issues use screen readers, and...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 29/09/2026
Cosmic Latte 🪐 web.jatan.space/cosmic-latte
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Cosmic Latte #FFF8E7 - Jatan the human
Apparently, #FFF8E7 is the average color of the visible universe, according to today’s NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day. A nice beige hue named Cosmic...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 28/09/2026
Alt text is now editable in Pagecord. Will post a blog about it later this week... #rails #blogging #a11y
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 27/09/2026
Enjoyed the AI doc olly.world/the-ai-doc-o...
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The AI doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist - Olly
I enjoyed this new documentary about AI. It’s a good primer for people who don’t really know too much about it. I can imagine those who are more well-versed...
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Olly Headey 📷 @ollyheadey.com · 26/09/2026
I've released a second edition of my street photography guide to Edinburgh eBook. store.ollyheadey.com/l/edgabk #photography #ebook #edinburgh
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 24/09/2026
A new look for the Pagecord home page. Inspired by April Dunford's talk at Turing Fest yesterday. Better, I think #buildinpublic #blogging
A screenshot of the hero section of the new Pagecord home page
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 24/09/2026
Someone asked me how I use Claude, so I thought I'd record a screencast of me one-shotting a chunky feature in Pagecord. I mistakenly only recorded the terminal and airpods are a truly terrible audio source (soz) but it's just about watchable and the captions help #rails #ai youtu.be/eQ2hCizl89U?...
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Building an MCP server for my blogging app with Claude Code
YouTube video by Pagecord
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 24/09/2026
"It's the end of Rails World as we know it (and I feel fine)" Some thoughts on the DHH keynote. Must be a weird vibe in that conference hall... #railsworld #rails olly.world/its-the-end-...
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It’s the end of Rails World as we know it (and I feel fine) - Olly
Programming frameworks come and go. They usually get slowly mothballed as developers move on to something new, shiny, simpler, faster, or more interesting....
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 22/09/2026
A screencast of me creating a private blog and email newsletter in Pagecord. Kinda cringe but maybe useful for people #blogging
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Creating a private blog for your family
YouTube video by Pagecord
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 22/09/2026
Sharable drafts in Pagecord now #blogging blog.pagecord.com/share-a-draf...
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Share a draft before you publish - Pagecord Updates
Account owners could always view drafts in Pagecord, but the link wasn't sharable (you had to be logged into the account). Sometimes you want a second...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 22/09/2026
At @turingfest.bsky.social in Leith today! I’ll be on stage tomorrow morning chatting to Scott Chacon about why GitHub won. #turingfest
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 21/09/2026
Alt text olly.world/aeb92e5c
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Olly Headey - September 21, 2026 08:46
Alt text support coming to Pagecord soon thanks to Bruno Prieto's fine work! ✨
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 18/09/2026
Pagecord has a new look! Consider resurrecting that dusty old blog that hasn't been touched since 2021. Forget those outdated Ruby 3.0.2 Jekyll dependencies, just put it on Pagecord and get your blogging habit back! #blogging #opensource #writing blog.pagecord.com/a-new-look-f...
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A new look for the Pagecord app - Pagecord Updates
The Pagecord user interface has been given a fresh lick of paint. It's an evolution rather than a revolution, but it lays the groundwork for adding...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 21/08/2026
This is wild! omarchy.org/news/2026/0...
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Omacom Foundation launches with $8 million
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly…
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 20/08/2026
Private blogs have been a surprisingly popular feature request for Pagecord. Who wants one? #blogging
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 20/08/2026
Ubicloud raising prices by 25% 🫠 Pagecord will suck it up, for now :(
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 18/08/2026
Jimmy olly.world/42fe473e
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Olly Headey - August 18, 2026 20:43
I watched an event with Jimmy Wales at the Edinburgh Book Festival today. He was talking about his recent book, The Seven Rules of Trust. As well as being a...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 17/08/2026
"I received an email from a competitor recently which had many facets, but the core point was a suggestion that I am copying what they do with Pagecord and I should stop doing that"... olly.world/ignore-the-...
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Ignore the competition - Olly
I received an email from a competitor recently which had many facets, but the core point was a suggestion that I am copying what they do with Pagecord and I...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 17/08/2026
A typical morning in my life #spam #blogging
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 14/08/2026
Pagecord now supports PDF attachments, complete with preview blog.pagecord.com/attach-pdfs... #blogging #pdf
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Attach PDFs to your posts and pages 📎 - Pagecord Updates
You can now attach PDFs to your posts and pages. Here's an example: Attaching a PDF works in the same way as attaching an image – click the attachment icon...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 14/08/2026
The Pagecord Supporters page is now live ✨🙏 pagecord.com/supporters
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Supporters – Pagecord
A list of the generous people who go the extra mile to support Pagecord's independence
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 13/08/2026
Re: Claude watermarking. If I get Claude to sketch out a very rough product announcement blog post, then butcher it to death so it's actually something I wrote in my voice (a process I have been known to use) then is this blog post somehow watermarked? Confusing. randsinrepose.com/archives/rip...
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RIP Claude
I've used Claude quite a bit for both the upcoming new book and the next edition of Managing Humans. I wrote the entire book, but, as I've done for years, I've
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 12/08/2026
You can now customise your Pagecord blog even more with the introduction of custom code. I've created a few recipes to get you started, read all about it on the blog ✨ blog.pagecord.com/customise-yo... #rails #blogging
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Customise your blog with code 👩‍💻 - Pagecord Updates
There's a never-ending list of features that I could implement in Pagecord. Some would be ideal for the majority of customers (e.g. comments!), while some of...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 11/08/2026
#pdf #blogging
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 09/08/2026
Just exploring webmentions for my blog. Please do interact with this tweet so I can see what happens 😅 olly.world/59921988
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Olly Headey - August 03, 2026 23:33
I’ve been building a lot of features for Pagecord which is fun, but also exhausting (yes even with coding agents). This is in addition to trying to find a...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 06/08/2026
Just in case anyone wanted to mention Pagecord... 🙏
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From the Blogging community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Blogging community
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 05/08/2026
Hiatus 😴 I am available on email :)
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 05/08/2026
Ok, my 2026 Edinburgh Festival binge starts now... #fringemaxxing
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Ronan Limon Duparcmeur @2-45.pm · 05/08/2026
I’ve been meaning to switch over to Pagecord (pagecord.com) for a while, and kept postponing. I’m happy to have finally done it because @olly.world is on fire these days. Pagecord keeps getting better and better!
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Pagecord: A blog you'll actually keep updated
Pagecord is a personal blog you'll actually keep updated. Publish wherever you like, from email, Obsidian, the editor, API, CLI, or your own scripts.
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 05/08/2026
Nice shout out for Pagecord here, although not sure why they think it's more expensive than Bear or Write.as. Maybe they're using the Bear "lifetime" plan as a comparison 🤷‍♂️ unattributed.cc/2026/08/04/l...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 05/08/2026
I added a bunch of tutorial videos for Pagecord to YouTube. They're all generated by Claude Opus 5 and I think it's done a good job considering the tiny amount of input required from me. You can see the playlist here, see what you think. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Pagecord Tutorial - YouTube
Short, focused guides to Pagecord, the simple, privacy-first blogging platform. Set up your blog, publish posts and pages, and make it your own.
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 05/08/2026
Your cheese has moved AKA Pagecord appearance settings have been tweaked blog.pagecord.com/a-few-change...
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A few changes to Appearance settings - Pagecord Updates
Head to your settings and you'll see a new panel called Custom Code. Custom CSS and Custom Footer have moved from Appearance into this new area: The...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 05/08/2026
Pagecord customers will have been logged out this morning, sorry about that but it was unavoidable due to a cookie change.
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Jason Morehead @opus.ing · 04/08/2026
So many great options exist for people who want to start blogging these days. Case in point: @olly.world’s Pagecord, a thoughtfully designed platform that strips away a lot of the cruft to create a pleasant blogging experience that’s good for both pros and newbies.
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Pagecord Is a Thoughtfully Simple Blogging Platform - Opus
A fantastic option for people who just want to start blogging with minimal fuss or set-up.
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 04/08/2026
This is why we can't have nice things #edinburgh
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North Bridge vandalised with red spray paint less than 24 hours after reopening
North Bridge reopened fully on Friday for the first time in eight years
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 04/08/2026
I've added full text search to Pagecord blogs with an easy way to add a search icon to your nav 🔎 It's reasonably basic, intentionally. Hopefully it's enough for 95% of customers. blog.pagecord.com/your-blog-i...
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Your blog is now searchable 🔍 - Pagecord Updates
Your readers can now search your Pagecord blog. There's a new search page at /search. Your readers type in a few words and get back any matching posts and...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 04/08/2026
Quick win to (hopefully?) address an annoying problem blog.pagecord.com/a-simpler-wa...
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A simpler way to add a link to your posts in the navigation - Pagecord Updates
When you add a custom home page, you typically need to add a link somewhere to the blog posts page. The URL/path to use here is /posts. Previously if you...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 03/08/2026
olly.world/59921988
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Olly Headey - August 03, 2026 23:33
I’ve been building a lot of features for Pagecord which is fun, but also exhausting (yes even with coding agents). This is in addition to trying to find a...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 03/08/2026
Like Grok but for Bluesky?
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 03/08/2026
Hear me out. The problem with Mastodon and Bluesky imo is that they lack the random, outright funny or interesting posts you used to get on ye Twitter of olde. X, for all it's horrors, still has this to a large extent (if you can block out the noise - possible!)
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 03/08/2026
@kevinmarks.com hi, i wondered if i could blag myself onto your indie web starter pack? i'm not sure people actually use these starter packs anymore (they seem to have disappeared off bluesky's radar) but you never know.. :)
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 03/08/2026
💬 Pagecord now supports comments! I procrastinated on this for far too long, but I'm delighted with it! If you haven't tried Pagecord, please give it a whirl. And let me know what you think in the comments! blog.pagecord.com/pagecord-no...
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Pagecord now supports comments! 💬 - Pagecord Updates
Blogs always used to have comments, but they went out of fashion for a while. Well, now they're hot again and fully supported in Pagecord Premium! 🔥 Readers...
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Olly Headey @olly.world · 03/08/2026
A cheeky bit of code injection can be helpful #buildinpublic
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