2023-03-25: Doing some changes for a hobby software project I’ve made for a few friends. The whole …
2023-03-24: Doing some web UI development at work. It’s actually kind of nice doing complex UI work again: …
2023-03-23: For anyone else that needs to know, if you need to look at the API docs for Deno, you’d want …
2023-03-23: Now that in-person events are happening again, tech meetups are beginning to cross my radar once …
2023-03-22: 🔗 The Command Line Is the GUI’s Future It has always been a truism that what we have gained …
2023-03-21: Having an AI write code for you is less interesting than having an AI that ingests all the code …
2023-03-21: In today’s look at the Spam folder: some emails from Amazon’s Alexa Dev. Rel. team. …
2023-03-20: Reheating Chicken Schnitzel in a Microwave Some tips for heating up chicken schnitzel that you had for dinner in a 1.1 kW microwave for lunch …
2023-03-20: Doing something different1 at work this morning. I’d figured that instead of working on …
2023-03-20: Getting some pretty strange spam emails sent to my Gmail address (which I still use). It’s the …
2023-03-19: A better peacock photo (well, just).
2023-03-18: One of the photos I was going to use in my last post was this photo, which was modified using …
2023-03-18: Photos Of Churchill Island Yesterday, my parents and I went to Churchill Island for afternoon tea and a walk around the …
2023-03-17: Rode an eBike for the first time today. Can definitely recommend. Even with the assist engaged at …
2023-03-17: Greetings from Cowes, Phillip Island.
2023-03-16: The amusing thing about the Go gopher mascot is that you’ll find it in various projects that …
2023-03-15: My first experience with a distributed SCM systems was Mercurial. Running hg branch created a new …
2023-03-14: Using tools I’ve built to help me at work and all I see are features not implemented. …
2023-03-13: It’s amazing what a difference going to the gym can make. This afternoon I was feeling so …
2023-03-12: Photos of Fitzroy Gardens, while we play our bocce comp. grand final. Perfect weather for it. Also …
2023-03-11: It took me a while to get use to it but I’ve grown to like The Verge homepage redesign. Having the …
2023-03-11: I know UI designers like using either Sketch or Figma — and after signing up to Figma this week, I …
2023-03-11: Do sites that just load their articles with (video) ads, pop-overs, requests for emails, etc. see …
2023-03-10: 🔗 After 6 long months, an Android phone finally cloned the iPhone 14 The screen-shots of this “mini …
2023-03-09: Hiding Your Attachment Folder In Obsidian's Outline A useful little CSS snippet for anyone using Obsidian that wants to hide their attachment folder …
2023-03-09: Working with some GitHub access tokens last night left me wondering why there’s no way to just renew …
2023-03-08: It’s 2023 now, and I still hate code reviews.
2023-03-07: Seeing Mastodon posts from Jason Snell about his trip to Aotearoa New Zealand prompted me to check …
2023-03-07: Follow-up from my earlier post about ChatGTP this morning, it turns out I probably should’ve …
2023-03-07: Oh, AWS. Once again your brilliant UX design chops shine through in the products you release. I …
2023-03-07: Remember in Gödel, Escher, Bach when they were saying that a (then) theoretical AI is less like a …
2023-03-06: I wish more app developers built websites for their apps. There are many benefits in doing so. …
2023-03-06: Evidence that I didn’t sleep well last night: for a split second I thought this was actually a …
2023-03-05: A lot of track work going on this weekend. I enjoy seeing these trucks that can go both on roads and …
2023-03-04: To Wordpress Or Not To Wordpress I’m facing a bit of a dilemma. I’ve been asked to setup a new website for someone who …
2023-03-04: Ok, I now understand why everyone is going on about the Wordpress block editor. I’ve installed …
2023-03-03: Here’s something I’d never would have imagined: Jaycar does same day delivery. I …
2023-03-03: It sometimes sucks being a listener of Apple tech podcasts when you’ve got an Android phone. I …
2023-03-02: Foldables and rollables are so 2022. Where are the scrunchables? When I’m done with my phone, …
2023-03-02: I was listening to an episode of Sharp Tech the other day. When the conversation moved on to AI and …
2023-03-01: For anyone working with YAML Cloud Formation, if you were to see this error message: E0001 Error …
2023-03-01: Quotes Around Names In Error Messages I saw this error a few minutes ago: failed to process input: RUNTIME ERROR: function has no …
2023-03-01: Interesting feeling I had just now. I was drafting a reply in Micro.blog which I chose not to post. …
2023-02-28: A park I frequently go to once had a non-directional beacon transmitter built there. Being somewhat …
2023-02-27: Web Search Works With Blogs Too Here’s one more reason to write (or syndicate) to your blog instead of post directly to social …
2023-02-26: Some acorns fell to the ground while I was passing under an oak tree this afternoon. I looked up and …
2023-02-26: TIL that long-clicking some toolbar icons in desktop Safari will bring up a menu. I would’ve …
2023-02-26: Setting up Yarn on a new machine to manage some JS packages. As usual, everything about how the tool …
2023-02-25: Close encounter with a kookaburra. Taken a few days ago while on a walk.
2023-02-25: I don’t understand people — adults who are by themselves — who go to a cafe just to watch something …
2023-02-25: Reading something about workplace memos this morning got me thinking: are workplace memos still a …
2023-02-24: Looking at the core gRPC status codes this morning. There are 17 status codes in all, and most of …
2023-02-23: Looking through my drafts last night to see if I could use one of them for my daily post. Found one …
2023-02-21: With all the designs I’ve made for systems using the Stripe API that blew up in my face …
2023-02-21: It’s Tuesday, I don’t shutdown my laptop during the week, and I only just now launched a …
2023-02-20: Whenever I read something about tech or music, a voice in my head starts saying things like I can do …
2023-02-19: Less Consuming, More Creating Mike Crittenden posted a good quote from a random Hacker News commenter: Less consuming, more …
2023-02-18: Ballarat Beer Festival 2023 My friends and I returned to Ballarat today for the Beer Festival. It was another stunning day for …
2023-02-17: Very hot today. Mercury hovering just under 40°C, with every chance that it may get hotter than …
2023-02-16: 🔗 From Bing To Sydney Hmm, it’s hard not feeling a little unsettled after reading this …
2023-02-16: Anyone making a software tool that converts times between time-zones, please let me enter the …
2023-02-15: Ignoring Bard to Speak to Paulie So this happened today. Our team was testing the integration between two systems. The first system — …
2023-02-14: 🔗 ChatGPT clearly has a place I tried ChatGPT for the first time this morning. I needed a shell …
2023-02-13: Flights and accomodation for the Europe trip booked. It’s been hanging around my to-do list …
2023-02-13: I suspect, in a world where companies are replacing staff with AIs, that the organisations that …
2023-02-12: New Stuff Setup Weekend A bunch of new stuff I’ve bought has arrived recently and this is the weekend I finally get …
2023-02-12: Spotify Video Follow-up Some follow-up from my post about Spotify videos. I looked into this a little and from what I …
2023-02-11: I just realised there’s a downside to cross-posting my Micro.blog posts to Mastodon: I can’t use …
2023-02-11: Computers may have bested humans in Go but we still hold the advantage when it comes to Go. 😉 …
2023-02-10: Toying with the idea of cancelling my Spotify subscription. There are a number of reasons for this, …
2023-02-10: Trying out Keyboard Maestro to automate some niggly things I occasionally need to do. Got my first …
2023-02-09: Read my last post during lunch to see how well it read. Couldn’t get past the third paragraph …
2023-02-09: On Higher Order Functions In Go It’s a bit surprising that higher-order functions like map and filter have not caught on in …
2023-02-08: Spent the last week updating my travel blog a bit. Started writing about the the trips around the …
2023-02-08: A watched kettle never boils, and a watched clock will not get the train arriving sooner (sadly).
2023-02-07: Making A Long Form Posts Category In Micro.blog I use the Categories feature of Micro.blog to organise the types of posts I make on this site. One …
2023-02-06: I, Developer There was a bit of a discussion on Mastodon and various blogs about how best to call someone who …
2023-02-06: Pro tip: don’t have a sprint planning meeting with the hiccups. I’ve tried it today and …
2023-02-05: Out walking my usual Sunday arvo. route. Perfect conditions for it as well.
2023-02-04: Tried doing some electronics this morning. Not much to show for it apart from some reading, …
2023-02-03: OS/2 Dreaming I’ve been thinking of OS/2 recently. Yes, the ill fated OS that IBM built with Microsoft. …
2023-02-02: Follow-up to my last post: you can turn off committing after conflict resolution in GoLand by …
2023-02-02: I don’t understand code editors that think they know when to commit changes …
2023-02-02: This hollow is hot property at the moment. It was occupied by a couple of kookaburra chicks about a …
2023-02-01: It kills me that Pinboard doesn’t automatically set the title of a bookmark if you add one …
2023-02-01: Premature abstraction is the root of unnecessary rework.
2023-02-01: Might just have to accept that the way I manage links to posts of interest is not perfect. There …
2023-01-31: A reminder to myself that the only way to get a blog post out there that you’re happy with is …
2023-01-31: A Rambling Thought About The App-Only Social Networks Re-reading this post got me wondering how much traction Hive and Post are getting from the Twitter …
2023-01-30: It’s been a rare (but not unprecedented) three coffee and one caffeinated tea kind of morning …
2023-01-29: The cafe I go to has started playing music where I sit. I find music at a cafe distracting, mainly …
2023-01-28: I never considered myself someone who believed that Go must’ve had generics from the start. I …
2023-01-28: 🔗 The Magic of Small Databases I kinda want this but for internal databases. There’ve been …
2023-01-27: Saw the following quote while reading this article: You could fill a book with all I know, but with …
2023-01-26: It’s 2023 now and podcasts are still saying that I should Google so-and-so to see an article …
2023-01-25: On a train now peeking at someone’s laptop. His desktop is completely covered in document …
2023-01-25: Busses should use the tram lines more. I remember being taught that if a bus was driving on a tram …
2023-01-25: Passing by the Vegemite factory on the way to work. You usually get a whiff of its signature smell …
2023-01-24: Ah, my Smart Response XE developer kit has arrived. Time for a new project.
2023-01-24: Achievement unlocked: first spam email offering to identify and fix vulnerabilities in one of my …
2023-01-23: I hate the term “business logic.” Is there a better noun-phrase for things the software …
2023-01-23: Currently reading: Temeraire by Naomi Novik 📚 About half way through the first chapter but already …
2023-01-22: On the subject of birds, I was looking at my status.lol statuses this morning. There are only a …
2023-01-22: Putting up a new print today. Original is by a local artist, although I didn’t get their name.
2023-01-21: My 2023 Word I think I’ve settled on my 2023 word of the year: generous. Specifically (although not …
2023-01-20: Updates To My Online Presence Making some changes to my online presence. The first is moving my knowledge base site from a set of …
2023-01-20: Discovered that the cafe I go to offers raisin toast. It’s too early for hot cross buns but …
2023-01-20: Might be time for a new, larger monitor. The one I’m using now, a 12 year old Samsung …
2023-01-19: I’m cautiously optimistic that upgrading my iPad to iPadOS 16.2 has fixed the keyboard issue I’ve …
2023-01-18: 🎙 Really Specific Stories: John Siracusa As an avid fan of all of John’s podcasts, I’ve …
2023-01-18: I wonder if finding anything related to Kubernetes sidecars, cluster configuration, or tools boring …
2023-01-17: Feature for web-browsers: a keyboard shortcut to go to the last tab that had input focus. Would be …
2023-01-17: Spent 15 minutes going through newsletters looking for a Go package I wanted to use. I really need a …
2023-01-16: This Coulda Been A Podcast Started listening to a “podcast” published as a YouTube video. I don’t like that …
2023-01-16: 🔗 The Shit Show What gets me about Twitter killing access to third-party clients is the lack of …
2023-01-15: I also saw an interesting water-bird this morning. Don’t know what species it is. Looks a bit …
2023-01-15: While walking this afternoon, I met a small flock of gang-gang cockatoos. A gang-gang gang if you …
2023-01-15: Hand-made, Home-cooked “Here, buy this sandwich. It’s hand-made. “Well, it’s machine made. But …
2023-01-14: I’ve turned off cross-posting to my work journal in Micro.blog. I think it will help me write …
2023-01-14: Oof, I really feel for those third party developers responsible for Twitter clients. It’s not their …
2023-01-13: Also, if you like Oxygene Pt. 4 rearrangements, here’s one I made several years ago. Not as …
2023-01-13: 🔗 Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Oxygene Pt. 4” in 19kb of JS code A pretty good recreation of …
2023-01-12: Hustle Writing There was one other thing that was a bit distasteful about those posts on how you can further your …
2023-01-12: I’ve fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole today reading posts about how you can get ahead in …
2023-01-12: Froth and Bubble Woke up in the early morning with this poem in my head: In this world of froth and bubble, Two …
2023-01-11: I don’t know what’s causing the ongoing issue with my iPad keyboard folio. Sometimes I can resolve …
2023-01-10: Every time I scroll through the history in a Slack channel, I get the notice suggesting that I use …
2023-01-09: I’ve also started playing around with Netlify to host my Hugo sites. So far I’m …
2023-01-09: Hammers, Nails, and Hugo Going through my hammer and nail phase with Hugo. Trying it out on my personal knowledge base to see …
2023-01-08: Well, looks like buying shoes online was a mistake. The pair I bought was causing me pain, so I went …
2023-01-07: I won’t lie to you. I got some pretty strong vibes of the Birds at this point in my walk.
2023-01-07: Just bought a domain name which assumes UK English spelling, and then it occurred to me that I …
2023-01-07: Spending some time this morning working on the layout of a new Hugo site. I must say I’m …
2023-01-06: I’m starting to suspect that my wandering eye for blogging CMSes is driven less by the …
2023-01-06: Currently reading: Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination by Hugh MacLeod 📚 This was …
2023-01-05: 🔗 Twitter suffers major outage in Australia and New Zealand I was about to make a joke about Twitter …
2023-01-05: Anyone who wants to start a public relations firm, here’s a free name for you: The Boast Office.
2023-01-04: Back to work today, and first cab of the rank is a design task. I use to start writing notes of the …
2023-01-03: Until recently, I’ve been using Mastodon via the web-app on my phone. And credit to the …
2023-01-02: Looking for my 2023 word. The one at the top of the list is “travel”. I could pick this …
2023-01-02: On Posting Here Daily I sometimes struggle with the idea of trying to post here at least once a day. While perusing my …
2023-01-01: First post of 2023. If current trends are to be maintained, I better get posting right away. 😉 Happy …
2022-12-31: 2022 Year In Review I’ll be honest: these year in review posts feel like going to the dentist. I generally hate …
2022-12-31: Don’t like becoming a “regular” at cafes. It’s nice while you’re going …
2022-12-30: It’s been a while since I’ve used Pinboard to track a link. I found myself using other …
2022-12-29: Only slept three or so hours last night, and yet it feels like I got a lot done today. Funny how …
2022-12-29: Check this one off the bingo card: responding to PagerDuty alert during the Christmas break to do …
2022-12-27: The unwanted.
2022-12-26: Spent the day updating some Day One entries of my recent trip to the US. Some days effectively had …
2022-12-26: I was about to write something disparaging about threads again (this time about Mastodon threads), …
2022-12-25: Wishing you all a merry Christmas, a safe and restful holiday, and a happy and prosperous New Year.
2022-12-24: 2022 Song Of The Year For the past twelve years or so, I’ve been invited to play the organ at the children’s …
2022-12-24: Reading The Verge article about Twitter adding view counts to tweets (HT Daring Fireball), and …
2022-12-23: Today I am reminded that sometimes, if you think too much about what you hope to post for the day, …
2022-12-22: Woot! Officially on summer break. Sure it’s only for just under two weeks, and I’ll need …
2022-12-22: Ear is still blocked so went to the doctor today to see if I can get some treatment for it. Turns …
2022-12-21: On Using LinkedIn As A Replacement For Twitter Just listened to Dave Winer’s recent podcast about Guy Kawasaki considering LinkedIn as a …
2022-12-21: NASA’s InSight probe has gone quiet: Saying goodbye to spacecraft such as InSight is always …
2022-12-21: Anyone saying that blogging is dead has obviously not been blogging.
2022-12-20: I generally hate shopping for things like groceries and clothes, but I especially hate it for …
2022-12-19: The World Is Bigger Than Twitter By this time you’re probably sick of all the takes out there about the current direction of …
2022-12-18: Bocce in Calton Gardens. Perfect day for it.
2022-12-18: Ok, thank you for the insistent reminders, Patreon. I know my subscription for CGP Grey is coming up …
2022-12-17: Ok, I’ve changed my mind. I’m now following Mastodon users on Mastodon instead of …
2022-12-17: Reached the point in my life where I can buy a pair of runners online with the knowledge that …
2022-12-16: Working on a component design. Need to add a parameter which will store a single event type, like …
2022-12-15: Ok, this song is starting to grow on me. Shame it all sort of falls down near the end.
2022-12-15: Trying to get over a blocked ear that I’ve had for a week and a half. I think it’s …
2022-12-14: Wow, two comments on the same day about a post from Micro.blog appearing in Mastodon with inline …
2022-12-14: After following a few Mastodon users, the Micro.blog timeline is beginning to feel like my main …
2022-12-13: RSS And Tumblr's Quote-Style Posts Tumblr needs to improve how they generate RSS items. Quote-style posts — in which the post consists …
2022-12-12: 🔗 Infinite Mac A Mac with everything you’d want in 1995. A fully loaded version of System 9 …
2022-12-12: It’s debatable whether or not frequently posting here has improved my writing. I suspect not …
2022-12-11: Ok, I’m probably the only person that feels this way, but I not a fan of all the “yearly …
2022-12-10: Playing around with location services in a Flutter app. Pretty straight forward getting something up …
2022-12-09: The weather has been cycling between summer and winter all week. A few days ago it was 33°C and I …
2022-12-07: Two things occurred to me after reading the Stratechery weekly article about ChatGPT. First, it …
2022-12-06: Made a telemedicine call for the first time last night (I caught Covid-19 and developed an ear …
2022-12-04: And after one last 15 hour flight, I’m back home. And I get to stay home for more than a week. …
2022-12-03: Went on a tour to see the Hoover Dam this morning. What an impressive feat of engineering. Equally …
2022-12-02: The amusing — and quite frankly, obvious — thing about everyone moving to Mastodon and the Fediverse …
2022-12-01: 🎵 Twenty Four Hours from Café Del Chillia Effectively intermission music but I have found myself …
2022-11-30: Follow up to this post about Kindle books that are only available in the US. Apparently it’s …
2022-11-30: I think there’s safety in saying that this year’s Microblogvember was tough, what with …
2022-11-29: I usually eat two or three cans of tuna for lunch a week. And yet, I still don’t really consider …
2022-11-29: Flight home from the US is next week. I’m hoping for an uneventful trip. The news is not …
2022-11-29: I use to be quite religious in putting two spaces after a full stop. The only exception was when I’m …
2022-11-27: I heard the best way to get motivated to do something is to say to yourself “do it for five minutes …
2022-11-26: State election today. Number of people making their commitment to the process quite early. #mbnov
2022-11-25: Massive delay to my flight on the weekend. What was originally a morning departure is now an evening …
2022-11-25: Revived my silly little online finska scorecard and gave it a new domain name: finska.fun. This is …
2022-11-24: I’ve been approaching Microblogvember by taking the prompt and writing a post around it, which …
2022-11-23: You’d think I’d have a post with the word update in it. I use “update” at …
2022-11-23: 📺 The Computer Programme (1982) Discovered from reading this Ars Technica article about the history …
2022-11-23: Back home from Canberra. But only for a few days and then I’m off to the US. Should be good but I’m …
2022-11-22: I hate days that involve airports or air travel in any capacity. Not so much the actual flying part; …
2022-11-22: Typing in “graze” into Google Photos returned this photo. Conveniently, this was taken …
2022-11-21: Oof, scrum ceremonies really take it out of me. 3.5 to 4 hours of meetings, usually hosted by me and …
2022-11-21: Rocking my super cool hat and jacket ensemble this morning. We’re a couple of weeks from the …
2022-11-20: Enjoyed another trip to Tuggeranong this morning. Went to the same cafe, ordered the same breakfast. …
2022-11-20: 🎙 The Talk Show: Grand Scale Foot-Shooting A fascinating episode of the Talk Show. Couldn’t …
2022-11-19: The view from Mt. Ainslie.
2022-11-19: @odd shared a link to O Rly and given the recent tech news I couldn’t help myself. Enjoy.
2022-11-19: I got nosteligic for O’Reilly Books Online a few minutes ago. No novels there, just tech books. But …
2022-11-18: Free idea for anyone interested in building an Obsidian plugin: a calendar picker which will open up …
2022-11-18: What the fridge happened to Tumblr?! It took me 15 minutes to find the RSS feed of a blog there. To …
2022-11-18: Nearing the end of the week and I’m starting to tire. Can’t retire just yet though: got …
2022-11-17: Half Measures I’m coming to realise that one of my shortcomings is not completely following through on a …
2022-11-17: You know, the whole point of having standup-free Thursdays is that we would have the morning to get …
2022-11-17: A couple of hours away from where I am right now is a town called Bowral, with a pronunciation …
2022-11-16: A defining feature of the cafe culture in Melbourne that I absolutely love is that most cafes are …
2022-11-15: 📺 Victorian Drivers View Now, I know what you’re thinking: watching cab-rides on YouTube is …
2022-11-15: It’s interesting to think how many products made of aluminium are actually referred to as tin. …
2022-11-14: Oof, what a day. It was not my intention to leave this Microblogvember post to the last minute, but …
2022-11-14: I’m starting to suspect that Slack might not be the productivity magic-bullet it’s …
2022-11-13: Ivy and Archie show their affection by preening elements of my face; usually the eyelashes, ears, …
2022-11-13: I usually make small adjustments to photos before I post them here, like small crops to emphasise …
2022-11-12: I had my suspicions that today’s Microblogvember post would be difficult to write. Well, my …
2022-11-12: The National Carillon, on the banks of Lake Burley Griffin. Music was being played on it this …
2022-11-11: Ugh, I just completely screwed up the test deployment of something just now. Missed a service that …
2022-11-11: I prefer to have my phone in my pocket with the display facing my leg. But with the Pixel 6 Pro I …
2022-11-11: It feels a lot like I’m rubbernecking but I just cannot look away from the slow moving trainwreck …
2022-11-10: Google Photos came up with this amusing suggestion today. Just to be clear: it was the birds that …
2022-11-10: A few months ago I decided to try a different approach with working on personal projects. Instead of …
2022-11-10: State election coming up in a couple of weeks. My parents, who have recently signed up as paid …
2022-11-09: One thing is certain: humans are fallible. They forget, or do not follow through sometimes. So if …
2022-11-09: Half-implemented micro-services are the worst. It can really slow down your development velocity to …
2022-11-08: The consensus seems to be that it’s preening time. #mbnov
2022-11-07: For today’s Microblogvember post, I would like to make a shout-out to the blog of Jodie Cook. …
2022-11-06: Since finding out that echo was today’s Microblogvember word, Pink Floyd Echoes has been playing in …
2022-11-05: Oof, I would have though that after writing here for a couple of years, I’d find the Microblogvember …
2022-11-04: Hackathon today. Taking a little break and looking at admiration on how much we managed to achieve …
2022-11-03: On my way to the airport to catch a flight, while wondering that if I just went for a Nav rating …
2022-11-03: They’re running electric busses on the route I take for work. I’m traveling on one now. …
2022-11-02: Cape Shank, Vic. Taken today. A feast for the eyes and ears (and maybe a tasting for the other …
2022-11-01: 🔗 github.com/charmbracelet/vhs This little tool is awesome. It allows you to easily make GIFs of a …
2022-11-01: Pro-tip: add challenges.micro.blog to your feed reader to get the daily challenge word for …
2022-11-01: Urge to buy a Nintendo Switch: 4/10 It’s holding steady at the moment but it’s been rising slowly …
2022-10-31: Day Trip: Macedon And Trentham I had the pleasure of taking the day off today and going for a few walks around Macedon and …
2022-10-30: Opinionated Tips for New Micro Bloggers Coming From Twitter or, How I Use Micro.blog To all new-comers from Twitter, welcome to Micro.blog! No doubt …
2022-10-29: Rail work beginning in earnest. A large work train carrying ballast and track sections has pulled …
2022-10-29: Setting up a GitLab instance in Linode. Got to this point in the instructions: Oh, the command to …
2022-10-28: If I’ve asked you to review a pull request I’ve raised, please be clear in your …
2022-10-28: Places hiring for senior software developers shouldn’t bother offering perks like free food or …
2022-10-28: I’ve stopped using the Substack app for reading newsletters. Not because I didn’t like …
2022-10-27: Finishing off the last part of my tech knowledge setup which is to regenerate the web version when I …
2022-10-27: Seeing a lot of retweets from @marco with screenshots of gambling apps ads on people’s iOS product …
2022-10-26: More track works going on, this time involving this pile of ballast in some way.
2022-10-26: I can tell myself that I shouldn’t look at another CMS, but I know that I’d just …
2022-10-26: My health insurer had a “cyber attack” recently in which some pretty sensitive data was …
2022-10-25: 🔗 Slow Roads Endless driving game in the browser. Pretty frickin’ well done. There’s …
2022-10-24: Just thinking about all the documents I need to write for work. Half the time they’re …
2022-10-24: In a spot of bother this morning. We’ve got sprint planning coming up this afternoon and I have …
2022-10-23: Never thought I’d say this, but I’m actually looking forward to the hackathon work is putting …
2022-10-22: Follow-up to yesterday’s post: Adam Fusco and I had a bit of a test of this over at …
2022-10-21: I came this close to sending the Mastodon equivalent of a DM today. That it works by simply setting …
2022-10-21: 📺 The Early Days of id Software: Programming Principles YouTube recommended this conference talk by …
2022-10-21: 🔗 Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source Wow, I did not expect that. Although I probably …
2022-10-20: Dealing with tables in Obsidian reminds me that as much as I think I like working with tables in …
2022-10-20: Tried something different for lunch today: a halloumi cheese pocket. The ingredients were halloumi …
2022-10-19: Looking at the pitches for a hackathon being planned at work, I’m coming to realise I get …
2022-10-18: Technical Knowledge Management Update Finished the first pass of moving all my technical knowledge into static Markdown files. I’ve …
2022-10-18: 📺 WTF are all these config files for Web front-end developers need to find a way to get all their …
2022-10-17: Some Links To Motivational Posts That Help Me This post contains a bunch of links to posts and articles that motivate me in some way, either with …
2022-10-16: It’s strange that the blog posts I enjoy reading from others are the same sort of blog posts I …
2022-10-15: Speed bocce with friends today. Congrats to Jules for winning the 2022-23 season, breaking a …
2022-10-15: Here’s the best part about waking up early on a weekend. You’re coffeed and breakfasted at an early …
2022-10-14: A Day in the Life North-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Vic, Australia at 8:20 am. Waiting with my …
2022-10-12: Option Currency Symbol Reference A small, incomplete reference of the various currency symbols that can be produced using the Option …
2022-10-12: Redesigning How I Manage My Tech Knowledge I might plan another redesign of how I keep little bits of tech knowledge that I occasionally need …
2022-10-11: Another gripe about how Chromium browsers don’t have a “go back 30 seconds” button …
2022-10-11: Once in a while, I like to listen to old episodes of Hypercritical. They’re more than 10 years …
2022-10-11: While reading the part about podcasting on Scripting News this morning, it got me thinking: has …
2022-10-10: It’s weird that when you join a second or third Slack workspace, all the onboarding stuff is …
2022-10-09: Working on recording that how-to video again this morning. Managed to get a take that I’m …
2022-10-08: One thing I miss from using Gnome and Linux is the ability to pin any window to the top layer, so …
2022-10-07: This week’s ear-worm: Hergest Ridge 🎵 Another Mike Oldfield album (surprise, surprise). …
2022-10-07: Ok, I’m all in on Obsidian for my note taking now. I’ve found myself using it at work every day this …
2022-10-06: Useful thing to know about Go: you can do lookups on a nil map: var xs map[string]string = nil x, …
2022-10-06: 🔗 Who is ready for a fleet of cubesats flying over cities, displaying ads? The well of bad ideas may …
2022-10-06: An Alternative To The Reply All Idea For Micro.blog Just thinking about Micro.blog conversations and the discussion about having a way to reply all. I …
2022-10-05: Tinkering around with some tools I use to help me at work. One, a CSV editor which runs in the …
2022-10-04: The (Annoying) Way To Get the Current MacOS Appearance Scheme From the Command Line Ok, here’s something bizarre. I’m trying to get the current MacOS appearance scheme — …
2022-10-04: There a so many good, high quality TV shows available at the moment. And yet I have little interest …
2022-10-03: New blog alert: lmika.day Started a check-in blog, similar to manton.coffee. Having a record of …
2022-10-03: Trying Obsidian for note-keeping at work again. I used it a lot in my last job, but I never really …
2022-10-02: Homeward bound.
2022-10-01: Photos of Lake Tuggeranong This morning I went to Tuggeranong, south of Canberra. After a cafe breakfast I took a walk around …
2022-09-30: 🔗 Google suffers from a digital petro curse Hearing the story about Stadia reminded me of this post …
2022-09-30: 🔗 Google Kills Stadia Google’s damaged reputation made the death of Stadia a self-fulfilling …
2022-09-29: 🔗 Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google I wonder: if Google, as many …
2022-09-29: Birds in the hand.
2022-09-28: An idea for anyone maintaining a 2FA app. When there’s only a few seconds left for an OTP …
2022-09-28: The best Slack shortcut I learnt today is Shift+Esc. This will mark all messages as read. 😌
2022-09-28: I had some trouble trying out status.lol yesterday. Turns out the reason was that I was using the …
2022-09-27: As a change of pace, I’ve picked up a frontend ticket at work today. TypeScript, React, GraphQL: …
2022-09-26: Here’s something I learnt today about cockatiels: they sneeze, or do something that can be …
2022-09-25: Back in Canberra with Ivy and Archie, my sister’s cockatiels. 🦜
2022-09-24: Same time and place as last week. Different species of bird.
2022-09-23: Tried something different today, by recording a how-to video of a project I’m working on. Must say …
2022-09-22: Tax return done. Was in danger of forgetting to do it so deceided to get it out of the way today. …
2022-09-21: To any Stratechery or Dithering subscribers that have seen no new posts since Monday: you may need …
2022-09-20: 🎉
2022-09-20: I must say, Feedbin does a good job making Twitter threads actually nice to read. I haven’t …
2022-09-19: 🎙️ Really Specific Stories, featuring yours truly. Had the privilege of being a guest on …
2022-09-19: Currently binging on Epic Engineering Failures from the Great Courses. The details of the failures …
2022-09-18: Google, please; fix the locale detection logic in Sheets. Every newly created spreadsheet has the …
2022-09-17: Spotted this morning as I was walking to breakfast. 🦆
2022-09-16: Did a cleanup of all the half-finished posts I had lying around as drafts. Many of them have been …
2022-09-15: Dinner at The Mint. This is my table, which is the same table I sat at last time I was here, in …
2022-09-15: Along the boundary of Melbourne Port.
2022-09-14: 🎙 Dithering: 13 Sept 22 - Discord AI Enjoyed the discussion on Midjourney and AI images, but it was …
2022-09-14: Sunny day today. Might need to bring out the hat once again.
2022-09-14: Really tired this morning. Work up last night due to a production incident. Must say that nothing …
2022-09-13: I miss working on monoliths. Micro-services are just so painful to test. So many moving parts you …
2022-09-13: Saw someone at work use Numi to show some maths so I’m giving it a try. Only just started …
2022-09-13: Absolutely incredible seeing how far AI image creation has come. I know this was years in the …
2022-09-11: At least one photo will be taken at this event (well technically the setup of the event).
2022-09-11: Discovered that I can use a URL shortener to grab a link from my Android phone and open it on my …
2022-09-10: My whimsical side might be developing a little. I’m starting to come round to the wiggly seek …
2022-09-10: Rail works.
2022-09-09: The Australian Republic Question With the passing of Queen Elisabeth II, the talk of whether Australia should become a republic will …
2022-09-09: Flags at half mast at the school today to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
2022-09-08: Those worried about video-centric podcasts ruining the format can allay their fears. The killer …
2022-09-08: I’ve been tinkering around with Pico-8 game development recently. I like how limiting it is. …
2022-09-06: And while we’re on the subject of tests: make it easy for me to launch tests quickly from the …
2022-09-06: The unit test I’m working on uses so many mocks it’s infuriatingly difficult to change …
2022-09-05: 🔗 emperror.dev/errors Drop in replacement for the github.com/pkg/errors package. The original …
2022-09-05: Detecting When GetItem On DynamoDB Returns Nothing I was trying to remember how best to detect when a GetItem call to DynamoDB returns no values. That …
2022-09-05: Some Photos of The Yarra Trail Went for a very short walk of the Yarra Trail around Heidelberg on Saturday. The evening light was …
2022-09-04: Milestone For a while, I’ve been trying to maintain a writing streak. I need to write at least one blog …
2022-09-03: It could be that I’m just an old fogie that doesn’t like whimsy, but chalk me up as …
2022-09-03: Currently reading: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition by William Zinsser 📚 Only a few …
2022-09-02: I make something and not share it with anyone, I become frustrated. I make something, share it with …
2022-09-02: Knocked off some merge requests from my inbox and about to start work on a nicely sized development …
2022-09-01: Found a service this morning which was sending HTTP requests with a timeout of 1 second. This was …
2022-08-31: You can tell I’m bored at work when I spend time building stupid little utilities for myself …
2022-08-30: Some Things I Found Out While Browsing a Substack Newsletter in The Wayback Machine I did a quick search for that blog post in the the Wayback Machine. I couldn’t find the post …
2022-08-30: Over the weekend, I wanted to revisit a Substack post I read several months ago. Unfortunately, the …
2022-08-29: Can’t believe it took me this long to get a headset. Knowing that a mic is only a couple of …
2022-08-27: Follow-up on my phone issue. I think the problem relates to 5G connections. The drop-outs seem to …
2022-08-26: Rebinding Keys For Quickly Resolving Conflicts in GoLand I’m dealing with a lot of conflicts today as I try to clear a backlog of Git rebases in my …
2022-08-26: Those “Accept Yours” & “Accept Theirs” buttons in GoLand’s …
2022-08-26: Oof, spent all morning updating and rebasing out-of-date pull requests. Only got through half of …
2022-08-25: Here’s today’s instalment of Why Didn’t I Think of This Sooner™. I’ve got …
2022-08-25: I’m moving the posts I had on my wiki to this blog and I’m shutting the wiki down. I …
2022-08-24: 🔗 A delightful reference for HTML Symbols, Entities and ASCII Character Codes A great reference site …
2022-08-23: Second breakfast time.
2022-08-23: Breakfast time.
2022-08-22: One thing I miss about working in Java is that the JVM comes out of the box with an interactive …
2022-08-22: I wonder if people who say they hate bagpipes are actually saying they don’t like the music …
2022-08-21: Went to the Union Club Hotel, in Collingwood, with a few friends for dinner tonight. Apparently …
2022-08-21: Off to breakfast this morning. Met some locals on the way.
2022-08-20: Day One needs a “this time one day ago” section, where you look at the entries from yesterday, …
2022-08-19: Turning Off Shared Command History in Oh My Zsh TL,DR: add “unsetopt share_history” to your .zshrc file I’ve been using Oh My Zsh …
2022-08-18: The last hold-out.
2022-08-17: Discovered something cool on the ATP website. If you play old shows while logged in as a member, you …
2022-08-16: I started seeing job ads for “Blockchain Engineer” on LinkedIn recently. I have no interest in such …
2022-08-16: 🔗 NYC Subway Track Map Dad and I have been watching YouTube cab-rides of the NYC subway system …
2022-08-15: I had the opportunity to meet up with someone I use to work with at the Bureau of Meterology this …
2022-08-13: 🔗 Waking Up In Geelong Facinating website for the casual Melbourne train buff. A lot of great photos …
2022-08-12: The electrification of large vehicles is continuing. For the first time, I just saw and not heard an …
2022-08-12: It’s funny seeing marking images of devices intended for “work”. There’s always one shot featuring …
2022-08-11: Just had an hour long Slack call with someone who was drafting a huge list of tasks in a single …
2022-08-11: MacOS’s virtualisation framework looks interesting and I’d like to get my hands on it. …
2022-08-10: Currently enjoying the sound of an eastern rosella singing it’s heart out, helping to make a …
2022-08-09: It wasn’t that long ago where a Google search would return useful results that were not found …
2022-08-09: Trying to find which countries require 3D Secure for online payments is annoying. Each website only …
2022-08-08: For the past several weeks, these two have been foraging in front of my place. They’re quite …
2022-08-07: Evening walk, with the wattles in full bloom.
2022-08-06: Kyneton Botanical Gardens Went to Kyneton with Mum and Dad today. While they went off for a bike ride, I had the opportunity …
2022-08-06: Kyneton Railway Station.
2022-08-05: Work was the reason I was unable to go for an afternoon walk last two Fridays. The wet weather was …
2022-08-05: This week’s ear-worm: The Songs Of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield 🎵 Not necessarily a new one …
2022-08-04: In this new work-from-home world we now inhabit, it’s coming to the point where my …
2022-08-04: DynamoDB JSON Attribute Types Quick Reference Because apparently it’s too difficult for AWS to provide an easy way to find this information. …
2022-08-03: Coming up with a naming convention for things like metadata keys, customer HTTP headers, or log …
2022-08-02: I discovered Goomics by Manu Cornet this morning after reading this Ars Technica article. There are …
2022-08-01: I started writing a comment in GitLab today for a pull request I was working on. I left the comment …
2022-07-31: A little hard to get through my regular Sunday routine today. I’ll do my best to keep at it …
2022-07-30: Useful tip I learnt today about screenshots on MacOS: you can take a screenshot of a window without …
2022-07-30: My Nonna bought me a set of winter gloves. This is actually my first ever set, and I can’t …
2022-07-29: I really want to write something on my blog today, but the things going on right now are just making …
2022-07-28: It’s good getting stuff released to production, so that users can get their hands on what …
2022-07-27: Covid-19 is making the rounds at work at the moment. A number of people have come down with it, …
2022-07-26: Working on large software projects — complete with Jira boards, code coverage requirements, and peer …
2022-07-25: I’ve been seeing this message an awful lot recently when I’m trying to use mobile data. …
2022-07-23: More Complaining About Autocorrect on MacOS Earlier this morning: Me: (writing in my journal) Nonna, my 91 year-old grandmother… …
2022-07-22: I’d be curious to know if a brand new user to Facebook would be able to get any value from it. …
2022-07-20: Write It Down I am feeling some very minor after-effects from the booster I took yesterday (nothing serious, just …
2022-07-19: Boosted. 💉💉💉💉 (also muffined up once again 🧁)
2022-07-19: 🔗 Publishing your work increases your luck (via Github’s The Readme Project) I found this very …
2022-07-18: Had sprint review today. Overall, it went really well. Much better than last time. We didn’t …
2022-07-17: Newsletter Reminder Emails I subscribe to a newsletter that sends “reminder” emails if I skip an issue. If I don’t open one of …
2022-07-17: Trying a new cafe this morning. I drive past this place all the time, and I keep telling myself I …
2022-07-16: Listening to the ATP #491 discussion on code formatting right now. I guess I’m not the only …
2022-07-16: This is how I usually spend my Saturday mornings. One difference today was that a train-replacement …
2022-07-15: A lot of Slack messaging and organising calls with others today in order to get something finished …
2022-07-14: Had an excellent design session meeting this morning, but after 1.5 hours of talking, my voice is …
2022-07-13: Moving my work journal over to Micro.blog. That blog has been bouncing around CMS’s for a …
2022-07-12: 🔗 Mentality This might be a good one to bookmark and come back to occasionally.
2022-07-12: 🔗 Stop checking the news before you do deep work Yes! I always fall into this trap.
2022-07-11: Trying my Pixel 6 caseless for a little while. It was starting to interfere with swipe gestures …
2022-07-10: Went to see Hamilton at Her Majesty’s Theatre last night (a little ironic, I know). I’ve seen the …
2022-07-09: How is it that I can make a change in one area of an Android app, like add a new fragment, and a …
2022-07-08: I’ve turned off analytics for this site. It’s been more than a hinderance than anything else. …
2022-07-07: The Feature Epic (Featuring the Epic Feature Branch) Here’s what’s been happening at work with me recently. I write it here as an exercise in …
2022-07-06: Given how often I’ve been typing it recently, you would have thought I’d know how to …
2022-07-06: Hmm, the folio keyboard I’m using for this iPad is starting to flake out occasionally. Sometimes …
2022-07-05: Got offered a free sample of a “lamington scone” at the bakery I went to today. Tastes …
2022-07-05: Spent all frickin morning in meetings. Hardly got any work done — ironically the type of work the …
2022-07-05: Woke up to my devices being unable to connect to the WiFi. It must have gone out during the night …
2022-07-04: End of sprint ceremonies today. Could have gone better. We failed the sprint quite hard. Not …
2022-07-03: I’ve been finding myself using Day One for general note taking, like ideas, things to …
2022-07-02: 🎙️ No Mercy / No Malice: All Ears First one of these newsletters that I actually listen to in …
2022-07-02: 🔗 Google loses two execs: one for Messaging and Workspace, another for Payments Two thoughts I came …
2022-07-01: I’m personally a bit of a fan of unit tests (at least when it comes to writing code for work — …
2022-06-30: The amusing thing about turning 37 today is that it felt like I’ve been 37 since maybe …
2022-06-29: I’m finding that more and more of daily workload in my job is less software development and …
2022-06-29: Arriving Late I’m going to have to tell my boss today that the stuff my squad has been working on is going to …
2022-06-28: Just got a flu shot. I asked about getting a second COVID-19 booster but I’m not in any …
2022-06-28: Here’s an idea for a competitive sport: a race to see who can first merge two Git branches …
2022-06-27: Wrong Number Got called three times this morning by mistake from an old woman in NSW trying to contact her son …
2022-06-27: List and Delete All Docker Containers A useful command I occasionally use. This will list all Docker containers, and delete each one …
2022-06-25: Idea for a website: you submit two TV shows or movies, and it shows you the cast members that are in …
2022-06-25: One fallout from Google’s terrible messaging situation is not just the fragmentation of all the …
2022-06-24: I’ve been seeing something strange with an Android app I’ve built for myself. When I …
2022-06-24: Getting spam emails with corrections about previously sent spam emails now. 😒
2022-06-23: Here’s another photo of Archie and Ivy from a couple of weeks ago. Ivy’s discovered that …
2022-06-22: Ugh, why do I even read the news? 😒
2022-06-22: You know that feeling where you just got off on-call, and that evening there was a widespread …
2022-06-21: One thing I must remember: if the options before me are to go for a walk or not, very rarely is not …
2022-06-21: Someone I worked with shared this tweet with a video of a musical number falling off the rails, …
2022-06-20: Been watching The Orville a fair bit recently, on SBS On Demand. I must say that I like it a lot. …
2022-06-19: Just enjoyed a set by Guy Montgomery in a familiar stomping ground (the Comedy Republic) with an …
2022-06-18: Heading back to Melbourne today after my 2.5 weeks in Canberra. Going to have to say goodbye to …
2022-06-17: Discovered the Causality podcast after listening to an episode of Reconcilable Differences. The …
2022-06-16: Got blocked on how I to fix a problem encountered with the current task I’m doing for work. …
2022-06-16: 🔗 Internet Explorer was once synonymous with the Internet, but today it’s gone for good So long, …
2022-06-15: Got to –4.5°C last night. As you can imagine, things were pretty frosty this morning.
2022-06-13: Honour, Democracy, and Galati: A Day in Canberra Since being in Canberra, I haven’t really done anything “touristy”. Given that …
2022-06-12: Ivy’s discovered the vessel I drink from and wants in on it. P.S. Ivy doing this actually …
2022-06-12: I’m toying around with the idea of building something to help me upload multiple photos to …
2022-06-11: Afternoon Walk Around Lake Ginninderra Went for an walk around Lake Ginninderra this afternoon. Well, not “around” the lake: …
2022-06-10: Archie loves head-scratches. In fact, when I reach my hand into the cage to let him out, he …
2022-06-09: My Evening So here’s how I spent my evening: Watching the WWDC state of the union until the DNS resolver konked …
2022-06-08: This is a little embarrassing, but it was only just yesterday that I learnt that tanukis are an …
2022-06-07: Writing documentation for your project can be a bit of a humbling experience. You encounter all the …
2022-06-07: The names for GitHub Codespaces are randomly generated, but I kinda like the one chosen for this …
2022-06-07: I gotta admit: the most exciting announcement I saw from WWDC 2022 was the FreeForm app, with the …
2022-06-06: I’m always torn between using a tool I wrote to draw sequence diagrams for work vs. using the …
2022-06-05: These little fellas just love going for the keyboard and mouse when they’re out with me. …
2022-06-04: I will admit: at dinner tonight, I almost ordered a parmy and a middy, just so that I can say …
2022-06-04: The Powerline Track Walk Went on a walk of the Powerline Track, which I was personally calling the “powerline …
2022-06-03: Now that the May Photoblogging Challenge is over, I need to come up with my own topics to post about …
2022-06-02: Most of the magpies I see in my daily life are of the white-backed variety, which is the common …
2022-06-01: Back in Canberra, looking after my sister’s cockatiels while she’s overseas for work. …
2022-05-31: Day 31: endurance I’m not someone that does endurance training, but I do enjoy a good …
2022-05-30: 🔗 How I Experience the Web Today (via Daring Fireball) I think most people have seen this. What got …
2022-05-30: Day 30: fish Haven’t got a good photo related to fish, so I figured a photo of a kingfisher …
2022-05-30: Working on another component design for work. Actually, it’s closer to augmenting an existing …
2022-05-29: Humour In Conference Videos — Less Is More It might be just me but I get a little put off with over-the-top attempts at humour in developer …
2022-05-29: Day 29: stripes #mbmay
2022-05-28: Day 28: fair Four people, two balls each. A fair game of bocce played on a fairly nice autumn day. …
2022-05-27: 🔗 Don’t defer quality This resonated with me today. I’ve been thinking on how we can use …
2022-05-27: Day 27: written A page from my on-again off-again attempts at carrying a physical notebook with me. …
2022-05-27: New mug today. Not as large as the last mug-related merch I’ve received — that crown is …
2022-05-27: It was only after I switch to Ecosia that I realised how often I use DuckDuckGo’s shortcuts …
2022-05-26: Day 26: schedule Made it to the bus stop on time. Fortunately, so did the bus. #mbmay
2022-05-26: Listening to today’s Stratechery on Microsoft Build keynote. Sounds like Microsoft wants to …
2022-05-25: I really enjoy using terminal UI tools, like Vim and K9S. They’re not easy to pick up, but …
2022-05-25: Day 25: mountain Warburton, taken in March 2020. #mbmay
2022-05-24: Day 24: intricate #mbmay
2022-05-23: Day 23: plain Although quite plain in appearance compared to other native birds, what the currawong …
2022-05-22: Day 22: textile Wool shopping with my Nonna about a month ago. Trying to decide the best colour and …
2022-05-21: Day 21: symmetry Okay, I’ll come clean. I have no idea what this is. It’s located in a …
2022-05-21: The cafe that I go to on weekends is just across the road from a polling station, so it’s …
2022-05-20: Day 20: beverage Enjoyed during the same meal I had yesterday: a mixed-berry smoothy. #mbmay
2022-05-19: Day 19: indulgence Full disclosure: this isn’t the type of muffin I actually ordered. My goto …
2022-05-19: Booked flights yesterday for Canberra. Got my itinerary and confirmation email. Ok, good. Then got …
2022-05-18: Day 18: random Tails. #mbmay
2022-05-17: Day 17: hold Holding my reusable cup as it’s holding my morning coffee. #mbmay
2022-05-16: Currently reading: Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell 📚 So far …
2022-05-16: Day 16: time My kitchen clock, which occasionally breaks in such a way that it’s not even …
2022-05-15: Day 15: clouds Taken during the Summer, which is usually when we get our most interesting cloud …
2022-05-14: Watching the Google I/O presentation on Google Wallet reminds me of all the presentations I’ve …
2022-05-14: Day 14: fence #mbmay
2022-05-13: Day 13: community #mbmay
2022-05-12: Cloud Formation "ValidationError at typeNameList" Errors I was editing some Cloud Formation today and when I tried to deploy it, I was getting this lengthy, …
2022-05-12: 🔗 A New Hope for Object Storage: R2 enters open beta I’ve been looking forward to giving R2 a …
2022-05-12: Is it really necessary for Amazon to prefix AWS services with “Amazon” or …
2022-05-12: Day 12: tranquility Part of a walk I occasionally do, near Macedon. There’s nothing special …
2022-05-12: It’s developer conference video watching time again! 🙌 The Google I/O videos are starting to …
2022-05-11: Failing to keep things simple in the software designs I’m responsible for seems to be a …
2022-05-11: Day 11: maroon #mbmay
2022-05-10: Day 10: pot The plastic pot I received at the Ballarat Beer Festival in February. #mbmay
2022-05-09: This week’s ear-worm: TUNIC (Original Game Soundtrack) by Lifeformed × Janice Kwan. Favourite …
2022-05-09: Day 9: bloom A bunch of bloomin’ wattles. #mbmay
2022-05-09: I use to enjoy reading tech blogs, like the ones from Slack and Shopify, that talk about some new …
2022-05-08: Day 8: union Had some trouble with this one today, so I thought I’d hit it up in the textbooks. …
2022-05-07: Managed to setup Wireguard VPN on my home network this morning so I can remote in when on the road. …
2022-05-07: Day 7: park The park in Benalla, taken last month during our drive to Canberra. #mbmay
2022-05-06: Imagine that there’s an open source project that has some modest traction but only one …
2022-05-06: Day 6: silhouette Photo taken by my boss in 2014 while we were in the Cook Islands for work. #mbmay
2022-05-05: Day 5: Earth One of the first photos from Himawari-8, a JMA weather satellite that went online while …
2022-05-04: Day 4: thorny This plant was less thorny than it once would have been, although there’s at …
2022-05-03: Day 3: experimental An experimental Arduino sketch, built using Tinygo, to see if I could get …
2022-05-03: Have finally got an approach for producing signed and notarised MacOS apps that is invokable from …
2022-05-02: Those that say “keep your user documentation up to date, not only for others but for yourself …
2022-05-02: The pièce de résistance of media with dynamic ad insertion (podcasts/streaming services/etc.) is …
2022-05-02: Part of me is wondering whether it makes sense giving Mastodon a try, maybe setting up a domain and …
2022-05-02: Day 2: photo The only photo of mine that I have on the wall. #mbmay
2022-05-01: Day 1: switch I usually sit at that table. But today, I decided to switch to the other side. #mbmay
2022-04-30: Our council has started using electric garbage trucks for collecting waste from park bins, which I …
2022-04-29: GitLab Search Subscriptions with NetNewsWire I’m working (with others) on a project that’s using GitLab to host the code, and …
2022-04-28: Woke up at 5 AM this morning for an early coding session today. Really want to fix this process of …
2022-04-27: Arbitrage. That was the word I was trying to remember.
2022-04-27: Dealing with identities and notarisation is a huge pain. You make an archive in Xcode, notarise it, …
2022-04-27: Thinking about Twitter and newsletters during my morning walk, I wonder: did Twitter actually do …
2022-04-27: Didn’t sleep well last night. Why? Because it was the first night of on call that I’ve had in a …
2022-04-26: I went to the dentist a few weeks ago (for the first time in five years 🙈) and the dentist asked if …
2022-04-26: What Would Get Me Back to Using Twitter Again Congratulations, Elon Musk, on your purchase of Twitter. I’m sure you’ve got a bunch of …
2022-04-25: Thinking about that last post a little more, maybe it’s just a matter of framing. After all, …
2022-04-25: I sometimes wonder, during days where I have very little to say, if it would be better to talk about …
2022-04-23: For want of a new tool, Xcode command line tools needs to be upgraded. For want of upgraded Xcode …
2022-04-23: Oh, I hope not.
2022-04-23: A few people I know are isolating due to Covid-19, so I stayed in last night. I rewatched Helvetica …
2022-04-23: Started reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. It was page 2, when I read the name …
2022-04-22: During the last four days, I drove home from Canberra (not a bad thing), my job went live with the …
2022-04-20: Just got my new passport today. Shortest six weeks of my life. 😉
2022-04-20: 🔗 Facebook on 30 Percent Platform Fees: ‘Hold Our Beer’ Meta talking about platform fees for the …
2022-04-18: Went to the National Gallery of Australia today. Must say that I enjoyed it much more than I thought …
2022-04-17: Trying to use GitHub Codespaces on an iPad. It sorta works. When it does, it works quite well. But …
2022-04-16: Good morning from Canberra. Photo’s taken just a little after 7:30 this morning.
2022-04-15: Dad and I will be driving to Canberra today to spend some time with the family over the Easter long …
2022-04-14: Really enjoying the newsletter Speaking Tech by Michael DeHann. It reminds me a lot of Steve …
2022-04-13: The thing about Severance is, while it may be the case that those on the severed floor at Lumon are …
2022-04-13: Started watching Severance yesterday and I got to say, it’s pretty good. Certainly something …
2022-04-12: Love this remark from Gruber about the comment from Twitter about Musk’s board seat: The first …
2022-04-11: Passport renewal forms filled in and sent away, along with new passport photos. Apparently …
2022-04-10: Finished reading: Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece. Great read, especially about all the work the …
2022-04-10: Went for a walk this afternoon and came home to two deliveries of online orders, which was quite …
2022-04-09: Fired up Logic Pro for the first time in a while. Trying a rearrangement of Passion for Exploring …
2022-04-09: Had a drinks with friends and watched a comedy set at Comedy Republic last night. Nice place for a …
2022-04-08: On the subject of Twitter’s edit button announcement, I find it amusing that they tweeted …
2022-04-08: I don’t know how people on Twitter live without an edit button. I’m always posting …
2022-04-08: Testing modern systems is the worst. It feels like half the time is spent either logging into …
2022-04-07: After a hard day of work, it’s great to live a little vicariously by listening to the story of …
2022-04-06: Something I wonder about these web3 and NFT projects: if the wealth aspect was removed, and there …
2022-04-05: Just started Safari up for the first time on this laptop and I was greeted with the new …
2022-04-04: It’s the end of the day and I’m struggling to think about what to write here. All I can …
2022-04-03: Walked a little of the Castlemaine to Maldon bike trail today, which runs besides the tourist …
2022-04-02: I was compelled to try the Substack app this morning after wanting to make a comment on a post. I …
2022-04-01: 🔗 Not an April Fool: Dyson announces apocalyptic filter-headphone combo Yes, the product is weird, …
2022-03-31: Even after 18 years of use, I still get blown away at how amazingly useful the command line can be …
2022-03-31: An amusing thought came to me after reading Gruber’s post on Facebook and TikTok. Here’s Facebook …
2022-03-30: Scene: work. Team: here’s the tasks we need to do, here’s how long they will take, and …
2022-03-29: Credit to Apple for the work they did to get x86 working seamlessly on the M1. It’s only just …
2022-03-29: My theorem regarding email: the chance of me reading an email from a sender is inversely …
2022-03-29: 🔗 Stay on the bus The subject here is photography but I think it can be applied to any other …
2022-03-28: Meetings really take it out of me. I had 4 hours worth of meetings today and now I’m really …
2022-03-27: Doing a lot of terminal UI app development recently. It’s not easy but I’ve forgotten how much fun …
2022-03-25: Woke up expecting today to be long and annoying, but it turned out not to be as annoying as I …
2022-03-25: Got my copy of Bloch’s Effective Java out today for the first time in years, in order to …
2022-03-25: No day trip to Warburton this year: too much to do at work unfortunately. I’ve got a day in leau …
2022-03-24: Wondering if there’s a way where I could quit my job and spend my waking hours building …
2022-03-23: Doing some tool smithing at work to make my current task a little easier. Using Bubble Tea to build …
2022-03-22: The “Explore Repositories” sidebar on GitHub’s home page (if you’re logged in) is a bit strange. Why …
2022-03-21: Showing Only Changed Files in Git Log This technique shows only the changed files in a git log call without having to show the entire …
2022-03-21: If there’s anyone else out there using Buffalo to build web-apps, I just discovered that it …
2022-03-21: Showing A File At a Specific Git Revision To display the contents of a file at a given revision in Git, run the following command: $ git show …
2022-03-21: 🔗 A big bet to kill the password for good Lot of talk about getting the user experience/OS …
2022-03-20: I may need to shake up my podcast listening habits a little. I subscribe to several tech-based …
2022-03-19: We were hoping for a game of bocce in Argyle Square, which has a bocce pitch. But alas! Beaten there …
2022-03-18: Code Review Software Sucks. Here's How I Would Improve It This post is about code reviews, and the software that facilitates them. I’ll be honest: …
2022-03-18: I forgot that yesterday was St. Patricks Day. But I did wear a green polo, listened to some Celtic …
2022-03-17: Sometimes I wish I had the patients (and the hardware) to play some of the video games indies have …
2022-03-17: Reading the chapter on Microformats in Indie Microblogging brought me back to uni where we were …
2022-03-16: An important tenet of software development that I don’t think is appreciated that much: make …
2022-03-16: 🔗 Go 1.18 Release Notes Happy “generics finally in Go” day. (I wouldn’t call …
2022-03-15: Learning Through Video Mike Crittenden wrote a post this morning about how he hates learning through videos. I know for …
2022-03-14: 🔗 Kubernetes 101 A pretty good introduction about the fundamentals of Kubernetes, and also the post …
2022-03-14: I was ask today by someone at work1 if I knew of a good post describing the fundamentals of …
2022-03-13: Finished reading: Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod 📚 Another book …
2022-03-12: Hard to get out of old habits. I’ve started reading Indie Microblogging by Manton today. So far a …
2022-03-11: This is by far the most useful quick action I’ve made in Automator. It generates a UUID, and …
2022-03-10: Here’s another clip of the echidna, taken from the same 2 minute video I took yesterday. …
2022-03-10: Went for my afternoon walk yesterday, and saw an echidna looking for food. That doesn’t happen …
2022-03-09: Wondering if I could part with A$ 10,000.00 on a souped up Mac Studio. Very tempting, but …
2022-03-08: I’m looking for a new CMS for my side-project journal, which is currently on Drummer and Old …
2022-03-07: My printed Day One journals for 2021 have arrived, much quicker than I expected. They came out …
2022-03-06: I was reminded about the post on streaming apps by John Siracusa when I was browsing Apple Maps …
2022-03-05: We had a bit of rain last night so the Currawongs were out in force today. It’s always a pleasure …
2022-03-04: Super busy week this week. A couple of long days, with a bunch of long design and planning meetings …
2022-03-04: Slack’s not great for resolving arguments. I’m in one now at work. Nothing heated, just …
2022-03-03: Two things in life there’s never enough of: time, and available USB ports.
2022-03-02: Speaking of nice development experiences, I took a look at the Playdate SDK yesterday. Docs and …
2022-03-02: Time and Money Spending a lot of time in Stripe recently. It’s a fantastic payment gateway and a pleasure to …
2022-03-01: Nothing so focuses the mind like a deadline, and the mandate to keep it. The easy deadlines are the …
2022-02-28: 🔗 Simulating Amazon DynamoDB unique constraints using transactions A technique to simulate a …
2022-02-27: Have finally got around to arranging the printed books of my 2021 Day One journal entries. Lot of …
2022-02-26: Looking at wiki software this morning to set up a personal wiki. Lots of great projects out there, …
2022-02-25: Little bit difficult to think about much else given the current news from Ukraine. Certainly …
2022-02-24: A good indication that I’m not thrilled about doing something is when I start thinking of ways …
2022-02-23: I’m trying a little experiment on myself where I carry a little notebook with me wherever I …
2022-02-22: Let nobody say that innovation is no longer possible in MacOS. One idea I have: making it possible …
2022-02-21: I went to the newsagents today to buy a ruler. It’s been a little while since I’ve been …
2022-02-21: Cling Wrap I bought this roll of cling wrap when I moved into my current place. Now, after 6.5 years and 150 …
2022-02-20: Trip to Ballarat and the Beer Festival I had the opportunity to go to Ballarat yesterday to attend the beer festival with a couple of …
2022-02-19: Regional train trip today. Nice doing something different.
2022-02-18: Finally, for the first time in roughly 2.5 months, I have the opportunity to do a real coding task …
2022-02-18: OS Vendors and Online Accounts Looks like the next version of Windows will require an online account, and while the reason for this …
2022-02-17: Currently reading: Persuader by Lee Child 📚 Yes, I know it’s like the fifth time I’ve …
2022-02-17: The John Curtain Hotel, the pub my friends and I use to go to as uni students, is up for sale. It …
2022-02-16: Casey Newton published a great interview with the dev behind Web3 Is Going Just Great. The whole …
2022-02-16: I’m wondering if the Apple Pencil would do well with a dedicated charging case. I only use my Pencil …
2022-02-16: Someone shared a great Q&A video with Seth Godin yesterday. I was hoping to listen to it at the …
2022-02-15: My YouTube Watching Setup I’m not a sophisticated YouTube watcher but I do watch a lot of YouTube. For a while I was …
2022-02-14: Apparently household solar panels are so prevalent in some states that it’s at risk of …
2022-02-13: I was entering a commit message in GitHub, when I was shown the following tip: ProTip! Great commit …
2022-02-12: It may not have cooled down quite yet but with the days getting shorter, Autumn is feeling really …
2022-02-11: Reminder That Your Content Isn't Really Yours on Medium #3 Looks like Medium has had a redesign recently, with recommended posts now being featured more …
2022-02-11: There’s nothing quite as deflationary as returning home from a holiday. After the drive and the …
2022-02-10: I wish I had more to say today, on this, our last day of our summer holiday. So in leau of a better …
2022-02-09: Played golf for the first time in roughly 9 years. I’m terrible at the game but got a little better …
2022-02-09: 🔗 Why Simple Is Smart A collection of useful writing tips for journalists, but I think would also be …
2022-02-09: Last year, when we were on our holiday in Phillip Island, my parents suggested that I do the …
2022-02-08: I’m starting to think that the 1x zoom on this Pixel 6 might be a bit too wide. I was …
2022-02-07: Reading buddy.
2022-02-06: These signs were up around town today. We went to the usual places they have markets but there was …
2022-02-05: Had the opportunity to play Ticket To Ride, Europe today. It took a little while to get my head …
2022-02-04: I tried walking around with a notebook yesterday to… you know… be the type of person that carries a …
2022-02-03: I used the BBEdit diffing tool for the first time today, and I must say that it’s actually …
2022-02-02: The "Too Much Data" Error in Buffalo Projects If there’s anyone else out there using Buffalo to build web-apps, I just discovered that it …
2022-02-02: Signed up for an online course this morning, then browsing the web an hour later I found someone …
2022-02-01: I really dislike code reviews. I admit it. I don’t like doing them, and I don’t like …
2022-02-01: 🔗 No, Apple Did Not Crowdfund :focus-visible in Safari (via Daring Fireball) I see nothing wrong …
2022-01-31: Watching a lot of vintage computing videos recently, it’s staggering how much system …
2022-01-30: I’m feeling a bit stuck in my career at the moment, and I’m wondering if the thing …
2022-01-29: A couple of months ago, I put my name down on a waiting list for an online course I thought would be …
2022-01-28: It’s interesting. I’ve lived in Melbourne my whole life, and there are large, large …
2022-01-27: One thing that has been lost from all this working from home is the ability to use things like …
2022-01-26: Finished reading: The Dip by Seth Godin 📚 Short book: only took a few hours to get through it. …
2022-01-26: On Posting Daily I recently listen to an interview with Seth Godin on the Tim Ferris podcast. In that interview, Seth …
2022-01-25: At the cafe this morning, someone arrived with a dog that shares the same name as myself. It was …
2022-01-24: Boosted. 💉💉💉 Also bought a “Moderna muffin” to mark the occasion. (it’s just a …
2022-01-23: It’s amusing to see that Google is confident enough in their AI to tell me that I’ve received a SMS …
2022-01-22: I got a bit of a streak going so I was hoping to post something here today. Only trouble is that I …
2022-01-21: The Future of Computing I got into computers when I was quite young, and to satisfy my interest, I read a lot of books about …
2022-01-21: Shut down one blog this week and moved all the posts into this one. There’s another blog that …
2022-01-20: I posit to you that the reason developers find it hard to do anything related with encryption is not …
2022-01-19: I was looking for a simple timer this morning until I remembered that the Vivaldi browser actually …
2022-01-18: It might be time to unsubscribe from developer related podcasts that talk about new technologies and …
2022-01-17: 🔗 SpiceDAO wins a $3 million auction to buy an extremely rare storyboard book of Dune, only to learn …
2022-01-16: Bocce in Fitzroy Gardens. Grand final for the 2021 season (yes, my friends and I came up with the …
2022-01-15: It’s a shame that there’s a non-insignificant number of people and companies that I …
2022-01-14: While poking around the Micro.blog XML-RPC documentation, I had a flashback about SOAP. I had some …
2022-01-13: 🔗 Wordle and IP law: What happens when a hot game gets cloned I guess the moral of the story is that …
2022-01-13: Wordle 208 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Was close to missing it today. The winning guess …
2022-01-12: On the Moxie Marlinspike Post About web3 Today, I took a look at the Moxie Marlinspike post about web31. I found this post interesting for a …
2022-01-12: Burnt Out on Design I’ve been doing a heap of design work at my job at the moment; writing documents, drawing up …
2022-01-12: I’ve been listening to, and buying, a fair bit of music from Anders Enger Jensen over the last …
2022-01-11: One of the domains for a blog that I’ve since abandoned is coming up for renewal in a few …
2022-01-11: The latest episode of Core Intuition (496) resonated with me, especially the discussion about …
2022-01-08: I think I’ve settled on my word for 2022: finisher. Someone who finishes what he starts. This …
2022-01-07: 🔗 The Algorithmic Ad Monster Cometh for Podcasts I’m starting to hear more of these types of …
2022-01-07: It’s interesting to see the technical knowledge and priorities of a software development team …
2022-01-06: Yet another reminder to myself to write things down when they come to me. I had the perfect word for …
2022-01-06: There’s a lot I don’t like about all the “web3” stuff going on: bad actors …
2022-01-05: I’m adding some photos to last year’s journal in preparation for turning it into a book. I’m …
2022-01-05: We haven’t had any decent rain for several weeks now. So with the Bureau predicting rain …
2022-01-04: 🔗 Microsoft fixes harebrained Y2K22 Exchange bug that disrupted email worldwide Dates are hard, but …
2022-01-04: Back at work today, conceptually if not physically. The hardest part of coming back to work after …
2022-01-03: That silly maxination countdown site is live again as I’ve just booked my Covid-19 booster …
2022-01-02: Wangaratta station. Took a V/Line train back to the city after helping someone with the drive to …
2022-01-01: Happy new year. Time for the change of calendar.
2021-12-30: I only just realised how good the company name Square was. It’s not just the shape of the RFC …
2021-12-29: I’m seeing many bloggers in my RSS feed talking about how they’re reading “Four …
2021-12-28: Photos Of Buildings Important To You Now that we have decent cameras in our pocket and virtually unlimited space, there’s no reason …
2021-12-27: Got around to releasing Feed Journaler v0.3. Headline feature: option to enable launch on login, so …
2021-12-24: I wouldn’t call myself religious — I not someone who reguarily goes to church — but I do have a …
2021-12-24: Ugh, should’ve taken today off.
2021-12-23: Well, I feel like a bit of a turkey. I just spent two weeks researching technologies that will help …
2021-12-23: Only two more days of work left to go before the Christmas break. It’s only a week long, but …
2021-12-21: I try to be careful about future-proofing the code I write, but I just did a weird thing when …
2021-12-21: Still Off Twitter A little while ago, I stopped using Twitter on a daily basis as the continuous barrage of news was …
2021-12-20: I’ve been doing a lot of investigation work for my day job recently, looking for and …
2021-12-19: Finished reading: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create …
2021-12-17: Yet another story about an Android app with malware. What I’d like to know is why these sorts …
2021-12-15: I’m starting to see year in review posts pop up in my feeds. My first thought is …
2021-12-14: There are days when you’ve got your head down and are plowing through your tasks as everything …
2021-12-14: 100 Day Writing Streak I promise I won’t post about every single milestone that comes along, but I’m quite …
2021-12-14: 🔗 Woman lost @metaverse Instagram handle days after Facebook name change She had it for 10 years, …
2021-12-13: Saw this on my lunchtime walk today. I don’t often see cockatoos find food this way.
2021-12-13: I’ve ordered a new desk lamp with a warmer light than the one I’m using now. But it also …
2021-12-13: Someone I work with shared a tweet claiming that Log4j, the logging library with the remote code …
2021-12-10: My new Pixel 6 phone arrive yesterday, a full 40 days before the estimated delivery date. I’m …
2021-12-10: I tend to be indecisive, and during the last few days, a choice that I have to make at work has …
2021-12-09: A quote from Gruber about Spotify Wrapped: Me, personally, I still wouldn’t care a whit about it. …
2021-12-08: Follow up from yesterday’s post on the film crew working around my house, I found another …
2021-12-07: For the last couple a weeks, a production crew have been filming around my place. I wish I noted …
2021-12-07: Giving the email newsletter feature a try. I don’t have many long form posts so I’m …
2021-12-06: I bought a new desk lamp over the weekend. After trying it last night, I’m not super happy …
2021-12-03: On Treating Users As If They're Just There To Buy Stuff Ars Technica has published a third post about the annoying user experience of Microsoft Edge in as …
2021-12-02: Tip for anyone with an email newsletter: please include a link to the post online, or a link to the …
2021-12-02: 🔗 Write 5x more but write 5x less (via The Daily Graph) This post itself is interesting but what …
2021-12-01: It’s a bit of the shame that the best technique for projecting an iPad onto a monitor, for the …
2021-12-01: 🔗 Users revolt as Microsoft bolts a short-term financing app onto Edge Oh, Microsoft. You spend all …
2021-11-30: I used MacOS dark mode for the first time last night. An inoperable desk lamp has left my workspace …
2021-11-29: Weekend In Mansfield Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to spend some time with my parents who were staying in …
2021-11-26: Saved once again by Google Pay. I was almost at the cafe this morning, on my way to get some …
2021-11-25: FastMail’s spam filter has been a bit aggressive lately. I’ve seen a few emails show up …
2021-11-23: One of the hosts of a podcast I listen to mentioned buying a product from the company I work at, and …
2021-11-22: I’m looking forward to the day when I can type python in any command line on any OS, and it …
2021-11-21: Went out for breakfast again today. Wondered how long I could use my iPad without turning on my …
2021-11-20: Morning walk. There will be a cafe breakfast at the end of it.
2021-11-17: A podcast I was listening to mentioned a book that sounded interesting, so I checked the Kindle …
2021-11-17: Pro-tip for anyone using Vivaldi: you can unbind the “Cmd-Q” keyboard shortcut within …
2021-11-17: Cookie Disclosure Popups Should be Handled by the Browser I really dislike the cookie disclosure popups that appear on websites. Ideally I shouldn’t be …
2021-11-17: You know those journals you see in movies where the writer is working on something, and they write …
2021-11-16: I wonder if there’s a way to replace MacOS’s pretty ordinary spellcheck suggestions with …
2021-11-14: My Impressions of GitHub Codespaces The GitHub Universe 2021 conference started a few days ago and one of the features touted in the day …
2021-11-12: Today is starting out reasonably quietly. All the big development work is done and the only tasks …
2021-11-10: Thinking over the NaNoWriMo short story I’m working on, there seems to be a lot scenes with …
2021-11-09: Really enjoying Succession season 3 at the moment, but I’m afraid I’m one of those …
2021-11-09: Thought I’d give omg.lol a try this morning. My profile page. Looks a lot nicer than what I …
2021-11-08: For the last month, I was having trouble installing software on my work laptop because I thought I …
2021-11-06: It’s a bit strange how the stopwatch on the NaNoWriMo site doesn’t automatically fill in start and …
2021-11-05: Some days I wonder why I ever considered being a software developer. 😒
2021-11-05: It’s said that it’s a good idea not to blog while your angry. I think that’s good …
2021-11-04: I’ve manage to get the first 1,000 words out of my NaNoWriMo-adjacent goal of a 10,000 word …
2021-11-01: I really like to support independent software developers, but $150.00 for a file diffing tool is a …
2021-10-30: I had the opportunity to go out for breakfast this morning. I was originally going to get it as …
2021-10-28: Well, it took almost a full 4 months, but I’ve finally got a solar system installed on my …
2021-10-28: I was perusing my archives the other day and I’ve noticed that it’s been two years to …
2021-10-27: The popups for the admin password in MacOS needs a third button with the label “I wish I had …
2021-10-24: On a bit of a writing streak: 50 consecutive days of at least one blog post or journal entry. P.S. I …
2021-10-23: It’s good to see that Dave Winer is keeping a blog on Drummer change notes. I’m having …
2021-10-22: It’s that time of year when I need to wear sunscreen if I’m going to be outside for an …
2021-10-22: I’ve rediscovered the joy of honey on toast. What a winning combination. Goes really well with …
2021-10-21: Oh the irony. First weekend after Lockdown 6 and with plans for activities outdoors…
2021-10-21: I only just realised that my Pixel 2 would be missing out of Android 12. I guess that means that …
2021-10-20: If anyone’s thinking of starting a company that extracts CO2 from the atmosphere, and you …
2021-10-19: I just finished reading through the Ars Technica live blog of the Apple event. I must say, their new …
2021-10-18: I try to minimise the number of regrets I will eventually have in my life, but sometimes they do …
2021-10-17: I don’t understand people who would ruin their own website with popups thrown in my face the …
2021-10-16: Two People There are two people, and each one has the same problem that they want to get solved. The first …
2021-10-15: I’ve never been someone that has their TV on all the time; but after working at home, by …
2021-10-14: My Stratechery mug has arrived. It now holds the enviable position of largest mug in my house, …
2021-10-13: The danger of playing around with blogging platforms is that you find yourself wondering which …
2021-10-13: I heard that Dave Winer has released Drummer so I decided to give it a try. Although I’m not …
2021-10-12: Just arrived home from receiving my second dose of AstraZenica. Feeling pretty good about it. Not …
2021-10-11: I’ve got a Shortcut on my iPad to save links to Pinboard. I want to get the page title when I …
2021-10-10: Just finished a lovely game of Wingspan with the Oceania Expansion set. It was nice playing the game …
2021-10-07: This is another post lamenting the fact that too many development blogs from companies like Netflix …
2021-10-07: A lot is said about AWS offering so many services in exchange for some of them being half-baked. I …
2021-10-07: I know how frustrating it is to work with JSON for configuring things, but sometimes YAML can be …
2021-10-06: That feeling when you have to do something that you’ve not only done before, but you’ve …
2021-10-06: (Hyper)critical Acclaim There were a couple of events that led me to writing this post. I’m sure part of it was seeing …
2021-10-05: The eternal struggle of an Android phone owner (based on a true story): Website: Hey, check out …
2021-10-05: So Facebook has an outage and now every software engineer in the world knows a bit more about how …
2021-10-05: One week to go! 💉💉
2021-10-04: For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been driving Confluence at work, doing investigations and …
2021-10-02: This week’s ear-worm: Who Can It Be Now by Men At Work 🎵
2021-10-01: On Choosing the Hard Way Forward This is about work, so the usual disclaimers about opinions being my own, etc. apply here. I have an …
2021-09-30: Apparently my phone carrier is pretty good at promptly sending SMS messages with …
2021-09-26: There’s no better aroma than a freshly opened bag of coffee beans.
2021-09-24: Small request to developers of command line tools: please do not assume everyone is using a terminal …
2021-09-23: Listening to podcasts with automatic ad insertion can be really jarring sometimes. You’re …
2021-09-23: 🔗 File Not Found Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators …
2021-09-22: I enjoy using Tot for temporary working notes. I also enjoy using Boop for manipulating text without …
2021-09-22: Well, not every day you had a 5.8 magnitude earthquake around here (was originally reported as 6.0).
2021-09-22: I got a bit restless this morning and just eager to get my second vaccine shot, so I’ve put …
2021-09-20: I had the opportunity to play Wingspan yesterday. Still in the process of learning it — I don’t play …
2021-09-19: Some Notes About the Covid-19 Situation Now that the vaccines are here and are (slowly) being rolled out, and that Covid zero is no longer …
2021-09-16: You would have thought that by working from home for a year and a half, and predominantly …
2021-09-16: It’s a real shame that the powers that be insist on keeping the arcane stupidity of …
2021-09-14: AWS Lambda function names can only be 64 characters long. 23 characters are used for the stack name …
2021-09-14: Hmm, UV index expected to reach 4 (moderate) today, and 5 in a few days time. Might be time to dig …
2021-09-11: For the last two months, I’ve been working on a Mac app to automatically import my blog posts …
2021-09-10: If it wasn’t for the use of an all-caps style, this Daring Fireball post would be a perfect …
2021-09-10: About 5 years and 3 employers ago, I was working at a government agency building an admin console …
2021-09-09: Abound two months ago, I started feeling some strain in my wrist with my old keyboard, so I replaced …
2021-09-08: Really not much going on at the moment. Just a whole lot of waiting. Waiting for my next vaccine …
2021-09-07: On Confluence I’m sorry. I know the saying about someone complaining about their tools. But this has been …
2021-09-06: Working on some JavaScript which is using ES modules (i.e. import) without needing Webpack to bundle …
2021-09-06: On Apple's Media Release Gymnastics I started listening to the latest Talk Show, where John Gruber and MG Siegler discuss Apple’s …
2021-09-03: If anyone else needs another reason why they shouldn’t use Twitter threads as a substitute for …
2021-09-03: So glad it’s Friday today. It’s been a heck of a week, both at work and with the current …
2021-08-31: It’s hard coming up with a good name for something. There has only been a handful of times a …
2021-08-26: My bad spelling is going to be the end of me someday. I’ve been racking my brain trying to …
2021-08-26: I know everyone is entitled to a break, and it’s probably just as well it’s happening …
2021-08-25: It’s a sad reality that as the demands of software systems go up, and more libraries and …
2021-08-24: Post Of Little Consequence I’m wouldn’t call myself a regular poster on this blog. I don’t have a goal of …
2021-08-17: Argh, thought I would have dodge the side-effect lottery for the AstraZeneca vaccine, but nope! This …
2021-08-16: First jab of AstraZeneca booked for today. I will admit, it would have been nice to get one of the …
2021-08-15: I wonder if Apple’s spell checker should start including a reason as to why they are making a …
2021-08-14: The browser I’m using is offering to translate a web-app I’m working on from French to …
2021-08-13: Currently watching Halt And Catch Fire on SBS On Demand. An enjoyable watch but the the plumber …
2021-08-13: I hear rumours of the JS alert() function being deprecated. I hope that it isn’t so. As …
2021-08-10: Throwing a link out to this service for anyone falling into despair about the latest IPCC report and …
2021-08-07: This week’s ear-worm: DiscoVision by Anders Enger Jensen 🎵
2021-08-06: I discovered a downside with using a MacBook Pro with an M1 chip: it runs so cool that I can’t …
2021-08-04: Today I start my new job, and my new commute which, since it’s on the opposite side of the city to …
2021-08-03: Yesterday, I had the pleasure of walking a new rail trail just outside Leongatha, in South-East …
2021-08-02: Six Weeks Off Twitter It’s been roughly six weeks since I’ve stopped using Twitter on a daily basis. I initially took a …
2021-08-01: Too much coffee this morning. Feeling a little bit too wired and unfocused. Fortunately I’ve …
2021-07-27: Some significant lifting of restrictions here in Melbourne. Still unable to visit family at their …
2021-07-27: Second last day at my current job. Most of the coding work was finished about a week ago, and now …
2021-07-26: I don’t know if it’s a weird quirk of mine, but whenever I’m working on a software …
2021-07-22: Seeking Out Bad News Sometimes I wonder if I’m just going out of the way to seek bad news. Maybe it’s because I think …
2021-07-22: It seems like every time I’m working on something where time is of the essence, a device or …
2021-07-21: There’s exactly one week left in my current job before I leave. An email, which seems to have …
2021-07-20: I can’t understand how people post to Medium. I’m sure they have nice authoring tools, …
2021-07-17: Wow, fresh off the acquisition of Day One, it looks like Automattic is acquiring Pocket Casts. That …
2021-07-16: In today’s crazy ideas to get out of things I rather not do: as part of getting solar panels, …
2021-07-15: It seems to be that the general advice for those under 50 looking at the AstraZenica vaccine is to …
2021-07-13: There’s no worst combination that anxiety and boredom. Having something on your mind, while …
2021-07-12: Washing sheets in winter is the worst. You are so reliant on the forecast being perfect and you have …
2021-07-12: A Year On Micro.blog It’s been a year since I’ve signed up to Micro.blog and written my first post, and the …
2021-07-09: I’ve got to get into the habit of writing more about what I’m doing. I never think about …
2021-07-09: Trying my hand at logo design for something I’m working on. I’m aiming for something …
2021-07-08: Start of new project: organising solar panels for my house.
2021-07-06: Finished reading: The Sentinel by Lee Child (yep, I’m a Jack Reacher fan). 📚
2021-07-05: Genius me set myself a reminder on Friday to “update the doco”. The reminder has just …
2021-06-26: Why I like developing in Go vs. something like NodeJS: my development setup doesn’t randomly …
2021-06-24: Credit to Vic. DHHS for including more information about the origin of new Covid-19 cases alongside …
2021-06-23: I’m seeing more and more apps these days being designed as the software equivalent of catalogues, …
2021-06-21: When it comes to organising things, whether it’s a large transition or simply the events of my …
2021-06-19: I wonder if part of my indecisiveness in making large decisions, such as changing jobs, has a lot to …
2021-06-15: I was feeling a bit under the weather yesterday so I got a Covid-19 test. In July 2020, when I last …
2021-06-14: Working On The Weekend I’ve saw a Tweets last night saying that the best thing a young person can do to help their career …
2021-06-11: I’m wondering if Slack should add a feature which, on demand, will roll-up the last several …
2021-06-09: A walk in the rain, with no one else around other than the currawongs. Fair bit darker than what the …
2021-06-08: I feel like the only person in the world that prefers to catch up on the WWDC keynote by reading the …
2021-06-07: Only took 5 failed CI builds today before I realised that there may be something wrong with the code …
2021-06-05: For anyone who needs it, here’s a Tampermonkey script for hiding the trending topics and …
2021-06-04: Congratulations to Ben Thompson on the announcement of Passport. Looks to be a very promising tool …
2021-06-04: It’s a bit of a shame that we couldn’t be using something like NFC for checking in to …
2021-06-02: FastMail needs to steal more features from Hey. One thing that would be nice: the ability to …
2021-06-01: Stumbling Into the Concept of Narrating Your Work About a week ago, we had a retro. One of the things that was brought up was the sense that …
2021-05-31: Sheets in the washing machine. Estimated time remaining is 17 minutes. This means that they should …
2021-05-30: Argh, people really need to stop using Twitter threads as a substitute for blog posts. I don’t want …
2021-05-27: Interesting day in that I can legitimately say that the reason I’m watching YouTube videos of …
2021-05-27: As difficult as it is going through another lockdown here in Melbourne, it’s actually kind of …
2021-05-27: There seems to be lacking an emoji for expressing being in an agreement in something while also …
2021-05-25: If anyone is interested in watching the recorded sessions of Google I/O 2021, you can find the …
2021-05-21: Mozilla’s MDN web docs are pretty good at indicating which browser supports which web feature. …
2021-05-16: On the Souring Relationship Between Apple and its Developers Listening to episode #430 of ATP yesterday, it was kind of shocking to hear the loss of good will …
2021-05-11: Feature request for Fastmail: the ability to setup a private RSS feed for a folder, so that emails …
2021-05-08: Stephen Hackett on 🎙 Flashback #18: The Google Graveyard Draft: Never fall in love in a Google …
2021-05-08: Started working on a website for a project I’m hoping to eventually open source. Found it a …
2021-05-05: Podcast Roll 2021 Yesterday, @Munish had the courage to share his podcast subscriptions1. Sensing an opportunity to …
2021-05-02: I’m starting to get the emails from Hover warning me of auto-renew being turned off for domains I’ve …
2021-05-01: On Basecamp I’ve been thinking about the incident at Basecamp for most of the week. I wanted to write …
2021-04-30: Early coding session this morning for a side project. Woke up at 4:45 am to work on a feature I just …
2021-04-24: Visitor at the back door. 🦎
2021-04-24: I wish there was a song lyric website that’s not riddled with ads. I don’t know why all the right …
2021-04-22: Some thoughts on Apple Subscription Podcasts offering You’ve probably seen the blog post outlining the details of Apple’s new Podcast Subscription …
2021-04-19: I listened to a interesting podcast about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and how it could be used by police to …
2021-04-17: My current bookmarking scheme is all over the place so I’m giving Pinboard a try in an attempt …
2021-04-11: Nothing humbles someone who thinks they’re a reasonably good developer than picking up a brand …
2021-04-08: Today is one of those rarest of days: a day with no meetings. There’s not even a stand-up, at …
2021-04-08: Surmounting The Hill Sometimes adding features to software is like cycling on a hilly road. You start off at the bottom …
2021-04-07: I really have to stop getting distracted writing tools to “help” me with the less than …
2021-04-03: A thing about Clubhouse is that since it’s live audio, it requires listeners to be awake. Given that …
2021-03-29: Nearly every office I’ve been in that has a dishwasher have their own makeshift system for …
2021-03-26: I’ve been really enjoying the posts that Jason Fried and DHH are making on HEY World, …
2021-03-25: I think one reason why the autocorrect in iOS is so frustrating is that, not only is it aggressive …
2021-03-24: It took an hour navigating various Telstra phone trees, chat apps, and the website, but I’ve …
2021-03-23: One aspect of software development that I like is the research side of things: learning something …
2021-03-22: There are many people around where I work that like “loud cars” of some sort, but I most certainly …
2021-03-18: There was a massive spiral wheel-shaped spider web in my backyard that I thought was abandoned. It …
2021-03-16: I wish more podcasters realise that there are other podcasting players than just Spotify and Apple …
2021-03-15: Thank goodness Micro.blog offers the ability to edit replies. It seems like I’m constantly …
2021-03-13: Some photos of my time in Warburton yesterday, in the Yarra Valley. Went for a bike ride and a bit …
2021-03-12: A Year Under The Pandemic This was originally a journal entry but I thought I’d share it here as well. Today is the end of …
2021-03-10: I love the idea of HEY World, that you can publish a blog post simply by sending an email. They’ve …
2021-03-09: I’ve been writing a bit more on my development related blog recently so I’ve added the …
2021-03-08: It’s a public holiday today, meaning that instead of writing software for work, I could do …
2021-03-08: It’s funny how somtimes you make a mistake, then you make another mistake that relates to that …
2021-03-03: Request to all cafe owners: please ask the customer if they would like coriander in their sandwich …
2021-03-03: It’s the middle of week 2 back in the office, and I’ve found myself falling back on most of the old …
2021-03-01: I had a Blot.im account that I was paying for but not using, so I’ve started a digital garden …
2021-02-28: The interesting thing about technology breakthroughs is how quickly the shift from the impossible to …
2021-02-28: I’ll have to go clothes shopping today to get a new jumper. It’s hard to find them during summer, …
2021-02-25: Setting Package Variable When Building Go Project Here’s a technique for setting a variable in a Go project when building it. Say you have a global …
2021-02-25: Supporting HTTP/2 Without A tls.Conn In Go Go has support for both HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2 in the web server available in net/http. Unfortunately, …
2021-02-25: It’s amazing, and perhaps a little shocking when you think about it, how much time spent on planning …
2021-02-25: Feature needed for news sites: a mouse-over for names in an article that quickly shows you who they …
2021-02-25: Things I don’t miss about commuting to work: delays due to public transport interruptions. 😒
2021-02-24: I only just learnt today that NetNewsWire on the iPad does not require an internet connection in …
2021-02-23: I’m wondering if there should be a set of conventions for people on video calls to indicate …
2021-02-22: Returning to the office today. Not sure if it will be full time, hopefully there will be …
2021-02-20: Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban From the Verge: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s ABC News app shot to the top of Apple’s …
2021-02-19: Some uninformed thoughts about the ACCC Media Bargaining Code Yesterday, when the news about the news and Facebook was making the rounds in Australia, I have been …
2021-02-17: A $2000.00 Smartphone with Ads I just learnt today that the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has ads. I’m generally not that …
2021-02-16: On the Facebook Watch Ron Amadeo, from Ars Technica, on Facebook considering an Android Watch: The Information says …
2021-02-16: It only felt like a week ago when I saw the launch of NASA’s Perseverance rover. Yet here we …
2021-02-15: Viewing webpages with View Here’s a way to simplify the number of keystrokes when viewing things from the web using Vim. …
2021-02-14: Argh, stop with the popups for my email address while I’m trying to read your blog! How can I enjoy …
2021-02-14: Qualcomm unhappy with Nvidia wanting to buy Arm From Ars Technica: According to CNBC, Qualcomm is one of many Arm licensees who continues to object …
2021-02-14: Is there a way, in Android Studios, to configure the debugger so that pausing a Kotlin app at a …
2021-02-13: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 12: Sporg. Mind turning slowly into sporg as I try to chase …
2021-02-13: Current status: looking at sqlite3 DBs of an Android app in development while waiting for XCode to …
2021-02-12: The interesting thing about the “out of date” messages from Google’s iOS apps is the fact that they …
2021-02-12: It’s a shame that we’ve had to go back into lockdown for 5 days, due to the highly …
2021-02-12: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 11: Machine. My trusty Breezemaster has been pushing air for …
2021-02-12: That last post courtesy of “Random Thought”; a simple Mac app I’m working on to publish quick blog …
2021-02-12: We’re using Google Meet at work at the moment. Apart from the logo, which looks indistinguishable …
2021-02-10: Seth Godin on Rank Choice Voting Seth Godin on Rank Choice Voting: The surprising thing? In a recent primary in New York, some …
2021-02-10: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 10: Energy.
2021-02-09: Twitter, Subscriptions and Tweetdeck So, Twitter is now considering subscriptions and charging apps like Tweetdeck. I’m guessing …
2021-02-09: Getting Public IP Address from the Command Line There is a website at ifconfig.co which can be used to get your public IP address. This is a …
2021-02-09: If someone has access to the AWS console, should it be right for them to also have access to the AWS …
2021-02-09: Empty HTTP Headers in Go Here is a technique for checking for the presence of a HTTP header in a Go request, even if the …
2021-02-09: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 9: Muddy. It’s rare to find mud around here in February, …
2021-02-09: I have all these personal projects that I want to start, but I need to check myself as I’ve got a …
2021-02-08: I watched Spirited Away last night. I really enjoyed it: it’s certainly a beautiful film. …
2021-02-08: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 8: Hope. My new, soon-to-be activated Internet setup, courtesy …
2021-02-08: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 7: Craving. Unfortunately, it’s what you’d expect.
2021-02-07: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 6: Sports. This is probably the closest thing to sports you’ll …
2021-02-06: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 5: Pets Unfortunately no pets allowed on this walk.
2021-02-04: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 4: Layers. This is a photo of the geological kind: an exposed …
2021-02-03: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 3: Comfort. POV shot of me sitting in a comfortable chair …
2021-02-03: February Photoblogging Challenge. Day 2: Morning Beverage.
2021-02-01: Micro.blog Photo Challenge. Day 1: “Close Up”. Not the best close up but any closer and they would …
2021-01-31: Afternoon in the gardens just south of the Shrine Of Remembrance in Melbourne, taken yesterday.
2021-01-29: Well, that’s a little terrifying. Turns out that coronavirus was mutating during …
2021-01-28: I gave Glitch a go for the first time today. I was sceptical that I would find any value in it, but …
2021-01-26: I just spent an hour and a half building what I thought was a simplified version of the R-Tree …
2021-01-25: In the summer months, if the outside air temperature gets warmer than 40°C, I treat myself to an ice …
2021-01-25: I was having a discussion with people at work about the approval process of the Covid-19 vaccines …
2021-01-23: A Feature Request for Twitter, Free of Charge It looks like Twitter’s product design team need some help. Their recent ideas, …
2021-01-22: Adding Blog Posts to Day One using RSS Prior to joining Micro.blog, I had a journal in Day One, which was the sole destination for all my …
2021-01-22: It’s only just now that I realised I no longer need to brace myself whenever I see the …
2021-01-20: Published two tracks last night: Taxonomy and Hazard. Both of these were made during the depths of …
2021-01-19: It’s a little bit shocking, the minute you move to a position with a bit more leadership …
2021-01-19: That feeling you get when you see a class or struct that was defined in another library that …
2021-01-17: Working on an album cover for some music I’m hoping to publish soon. Who knew that one the …
2021-01-16: Apart from a small cluster that’s been contained a week ago, there’ve been zero locally …
2021-01-15: If you’re looking for a way to edit long-form articles, may I recommend this technique from …
2021-01-14: Some of these collaborative editing tools, like Google Docs or Atlassian Confluence, have a feature …
2021-01-13: It’s strange that the IETF, one of the principal foundations responsible for maintaining the …
2021-01-12: Some thoughts on app permissions in macOS It’s funny how the casual meandering of your mind can be a source of inspiration. This morning, my …
2021-01-12: Feedbin, the RSS reader I use, has the ability to add Twitter users as feeds. It works pretty well …
2021-01-11: First encounters with GitHub (and Substack) All these new Substack newsletters that I’m seeing reminds me of my first encounter with …
2021-01-10: My understanding is that in Australia the “official” start of the week is Monday, but …
2021-01-08: One thing that needs to be clearly disclosed when signing up to anything — be it software, an energy …
2021-01-06: Thank you to the person on Micro.blog that recommended Music For Programming. Working from home …
2021-01-05: The standard audio and video player controls that browsers use for pages that don’t have their …
2021-01-05: I should be writing. I would like to write. I would like to like writing. But every time I think …
2021-01-04: I have the impression that browser vendors are trying to encourage web developers to use the native …
2021-01-03: I really appreciate the amount of hard work put in by those that run the ABC News Coronavirus live …
2021-01-02: Train trip from Wangaratta to Melbourne. First time travelling down this line.
2021-01-01: A Quick Review of the Year Here are a few words about the year gone by, and what I’m hoping to focus on the year ahead. …
2020-12-31: I’m really liking Stimulus for JavaScript development. The fact that it gives me an easy way …
2020-12-30: Bocce in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne
2020-12-28: I’m interested in starting a daily log, similar to what Dave Winer and a few others I follow …
2020-12-27: I subscribe to a few blogs that are well known for posting daily. Today, one of them is late. …
2020-12-26: I took the plunge and purchased Logic Pro today. Although the purchase itself is not super …
2020-12-25: Follow on from the last post, I also had the opportunity to spot a few trains. Here’s one on …
2020-12-25: Christmas Eve spent hiking around Macedon and Trentham in regional Victoria.
2020-12-23: Today is the last day of work for the year, and although I haven’t got much planned for the …
2020-12-22: I wonder if Tim Berners-Lee ever imagined that we would be using the web as a replacement for things …
2020-12-17: Follow up from yesterday’s post about my non-reading habits, a colleague of mine shared this …
2020-12-16: I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’ve got this annoying habit of seeing an …
2020-12-16: Vivaldi - My Recommended Alternative to Chrome I’m seeing a few people on Micro.blog post about how Chrome Is Bad. Instead of replying to …
2020-12-13: Revisiting the decision to build a CMS It’s been almost a month since I wrote about my decision to write a CMS for a blog that I was …
2020-12-08: It’s a shame that more and more bloggers are moving to email newsletters in leau of RSS. Even …
2020-12-02: Some uninformed thoughts about Salesforce acquiring Slack John Gruber raised an interesting point about the future of Slack after being purchased by …
2020-11-30: I love the idea of events like Microblogvember to help reinforce the act of writing frequently. I …
2020-11-29: It’s interesting how the activities that would have seen quite pedestrian before the …
2020-11-28: It’s surprising how quickly you can get use to a mask outside when you’re required to …
2020-11-27: My dilemma for today is whether to buy a blender, and which one would work for me. Something …
2020-11-26: Passed by what I think is a Norfolk Island Pine tree. Incidentally, Norfolk Island is one of the few …
2020-11-26: I’ve just setup a subscription to Climeworks, which is a startup building plants for capturing …
2020-11-25: Even in these Covid times when I’m home 95% of the time, deciding whether and when to go for a walk …
2020-11-24: Several years ago, I had the opportunity to work at a federal government agency. There was a lot to …
2020-11-23: Sunset over the suburbs, taken 2 weeks ago. You can get some pretty nice sunsets around this time of …
2020-11-22: During the second coronavirus wave in Melbourne, a “ring of steel” was imposed, …
2020-11-21: One feature of living in the Southern Hemisphere is that you get to see winter decorations in …
2020-11-20: It’s getting harder to go on lunchtime walks without having to slap on sunscreen or a hat. I …
2020-11-20: After dealing with Apple Developer Certificates and Provisioning Profiles for a single app for work, …
2020-11-19: I don’t know if it’s just me, but I find all these online services that push you these …
2020-11-19: Why I'm Considering Building A Blogging CMS I’m planning to start a new blog about Go development and one of the things that I’m …
2020-11-18: I have to keep reminding myself, when I’m building personal software projects, the costs of …
2020-11-17: There are people out there who love cars, boats and planes; but chalk me up as one who loves a good …
2020-11-16: Occasionally, when I go to the ABC News site, it stirs up the memory of the mid 90’s ad …
2020-11-15: It’s meant to be a warm, windy, 33°C day today, a perfect day for washing sheets. What …
2020-11-14: Today’s Microblogvember word is spooky. This is not something that I handle well. For example, …
2020-11-13: I’ve switched from a Lenovo laptop back to a MacBook Pro for work, which means I no longer …
2020-11-12: I was asked to come into the office for the first time since the start of the pandemic. It felt …
2020-11-11: While I did say that I might have gone Chromebook over iPad two days ago, I must also say that the …
2020-11-10: We’ve had zero new Covid-19 cases for several days now so I took a risked and visited my …
2020-11-09: The ads from Google are getting worse. I continue seeing an obviously fake one offering me advice on …
2020-11-09: An anecdote regarding the removal of iSH from the App Store Around April this year, my old Android Nexus 9 tablet was becoming unusable due to it’s age …
2020-11-08: If there’s something that I’ll take away from the events of this year, it’s that …
2020-11-07: I think my recent pattern of constantly refreshing web-pages is going to inflate my internet bill, …
2020-11-06: It’s puzzling but I’ve been finding myself having lunch earlier in the day than usual. I …
2020-11-05: It’s cold and wet today. The steps leading to my front door, which I think is called a stoop …
2020-11-04: Passed by a kangaroo during my evening walk a couple of days ago. I was surprised by how unphased he …
2020-11-03: Tracking Down a Lost Album Here’s a short story about my endeavours to find an album that seems to have disappeared from …
2020-11-03: The events of this year have been enough to astonish anyone. I can only speak for myself, but …
2020-11-02: I’ve had some difficulty coming up with today’s Microblogvember post. I’m finding …
2020-11-02: 📚 “Show Your Work” by Austin Kleon. A great read and one of those books that can be read …
2020-11-01: October has felt rather dreary this year. I know people that find this quite dissatisfactory, and …
2020-10-31: Offical support for file embedding coming to Go I’m excited to see, via Golang Weekly, that the official support for embedding static files in …
2020-10-29: Advice to those working with annotations in Preview For those of you using Preview in macOS for viewing an annotated PDF, if you need to move or delete …
2020-10-28: Seeing the photos in this article of an empty airport, especially one I’m familiar with, is …
2020-10-27: I’ve justed walked all the way to the shops before I realised I completely forgot my wallet. I …
2020-10-26: Doughnut Day 2020 Good day today. From a high of 725 Covid-19 cases in August 25, Victoria has just had 24 hours of …
2020-10-25: It’s coming to the point where I think I need a custom text entry control on all my devices that, …
2020-10-22: Over the last few weeks, while Melbourne has been under lock-down to drive the Covid-19 cases down, …
2020-10-22: Reflections On Writing On The Web I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole about writing and publishing online yesterday after reading this …
2020-10-20: It wasn’t until about a week ago, when I was looking very closely at the Robot Or Not show …
2020-10-15: I’ve removed Twitter my iPad and my phone. I’m starting to get a bit sick of it. It’s not doing …
2020-10-14: Daily walk after work, today through the forest reserve near my home. I didn’t think I had something …
2020-10-14: Unit Tests and Verifying Mocks I’m working with a unit test that uses mocks in which every method in the mock is verified …
2020-10-13: Looks like Google Play music is no longer letting me play the music I’ve got stored on the …
2020-10-13: After moving from Mac to Linux for work 1.5 months ago, I’ve lost the abiliy to be remember …
2020-10-12: Be forewarned: this might not be a happy post. I’m feeling a bit dispirited this morning …
2020-10-11: I don’t know how this keeps happening, but it feels like the Bluetooth stack on Android gets a …
2020-10-10: A Database Client Wishlist I’ve recently started a new job so I’ve been spending a bit of time trying to become …
2020-10-07: I’ve only just realised that the Victorian CHO Twitter account includes a daily Covid-19 case …
2020-10-06: Sharing links to private podcast episodes There have been times when I’ve wanted to share a link to an episode of a podcast that I pay …
2020-10-04: Friday evening walk. The photo does not do justice to how lovely the evening light can be during …
2020-10-04: We are potentially two weeks away from a significant reduction in restrictions, and this weekend is …
2020-10-01: A good way to be reminded of all the services you’re currently subscribed to is to have credit …
2020-09-25: After reading the recent news articles, along with hearing what the founder prioritises, it’s …
2020-09-23: Let's hold the line, Melbourne. We've got this. Today is a good day. Melbourne’s 14 day daily Covid-19 case average is now 29.4, which is …
2020-09-23: Ah, Day One. At least let me get through the day first.
2020-09-22: I wonder if it’s possible to develop something like ambidexterity for Mac and non-Mac keyboard …
2020-09-21: 📚 “The War of Art”, by Steven Pressfield. An excellent book about the creative process. …
2020-09-20: Good news is hard to come by recently, and the Stage 4 restrictions in Melbourne are anything but …
2020-09-18: I used iPad OS’s markup feature on a multi-page PDF for the first time this morning. It works …
2020-09-17: Getting screen capture working in Vivaldi on Fedora 32 Moving from a Mac Pro back to Linux for work, I’ve come to appreciate how well things just …
2020-09-16: Now that we’re allowed to venture outside a bit more, I’d like to start my lunchtime …
2020-09-15: First Foray Into Home Automation After recently changing jobs, I’ve received a brand new Lenovo work laptop. As good as the …
2020-09-09: I wonder if Oracle’s first change to TikTok, should they ever buy it, would be to add 5 …
2020-09-01: On Ordered Lists in Markdown One of the things I like about Markdown as a form of writing online, is that ordered lists can …
2020-08-26: If Google does this to the Pixel 4, just what do they expect for the Pixel 5? What is Google doing cancelling the Pixel 4 after 6 months? They spend $1.1 billion buying the HTC …
2020-08-26: John Gruber’s comments, after quoting a piece from Ars Technica on the Pixel 5 being slower than the …
2020-08-05: You can tell it’s August in Melbourne as the days start to get noticeably longer, the blossums …
2020-07-28: I’m beginning to wonder, after looking at all the services in IndieWeb Site Deaths page, if …
2020-07-24: Idea for MacOS: an option to install system updates on shutdown. This can replace the “in 1 …
2020-07-21: On Suppression vs. Elimination It was around the beginning of June, when the number of new Covid-19 cases for Victoria were around …
2020-07-14: Remarks on Go's Error Handling using Facebook's SDK Crashes As a Framing Device There are new reports of Facebook’s SDK crashing apps again due to server changes. The post …
2020-07-12: I’ve just realised the irony of posting a 624 word article about posting smaller articles. It …
2020-07-12: Signed Up To micro.blog I’ve signed up with micro.blog in an attempt to post to the blog more frequently than I have …
2020-06-26: Features From Android In iOS 14, and The Enthusiasm Gap John Gruber on Daring Fireball, commenting on an article about features in iOS 14 that Android had …
2020-06-25: On Go’s Type Parameters Proposal The developers of Go have release a new draft proposal for type parameters. The biggest change is …
2020-06-25: YouTube Music and Uploaded Music Libraries Ron Amado, from Ars Technica: YouTube Music is really only for The Music Renter—someone who wants …
2020-03-22: Don't Get it Now It’s scary times at the moment. The Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19) is raging through …
2020-02-29: Reflections On Virus Scanners on Windows I was listening to Episode 277 of The Talk Show in which John Gruber was discussing virus scanners …
2019-12-07: New Home of Steve Yegge's Rant About Google Services I’ve always enjoyed this rant from Steve Yegge about how Google differed from Amazon in how …
2019-10-28: Five Common Data Stores and When to Use Them Very interesting post on the Shopify Engineering Blog on the difference between 5 types of …