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Some More Thoughts on Apple's Ability to Make Vision Pro Content
Apple may struggle to produce the innovative Vision Pro content desired due to its reliance on established production practices and the pressure to justify substantial investments in video production. Continue reading →
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I Heart M Down
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Too Much HTML
Components, reusability, and cues from existing code in an unfamiliar project. Continue reading →
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About The Journey
A preference for the engineering process over the finished product leads to limited use of coding agents for project development. Continue reading →
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2025 Retro
No, not the good retro: the “agile” one. I felt that I didn’t have enough material for a comprehensive “year wrapped” post, but I did want to be a little reflective on what was . So it seemed fitting to use an approach favoured by software teams, where the points are brief, and the action items are never followed up. Keep Doing Public goal keeping: Documenting my goals, and when I achieve them, on this blog was a massive success. Continue reading →
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Rail Infrastructure Around Taradale
Since I was in the area, I figured I’d take a quick detour to Taradale to check out some of the local rail infrastructure: the closed station and the viaduct. Here are some photos of both. Continue reading →
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📘 Devlog
An API For a Keyframe Animation Package
A Go-based key-frame animator for Ebitengine projects was developed, emphasizing a clear API for animating float values with room for future enhancements. Continue reading →
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Rendering Outlined Text in Ebitengine
A method for rendering outlined text using the Ebitengine and the shapes package by creating a separate image for the text and applying an outline to it. Continue reading →
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2025 Song of the Year
Once again, a need to play something during Christmas Eve Mass has come around, so it’s time to elect 2025’s Song of the Year. No obvious song stood out this year, unlike 2023 and 2024. Looking back on what new music I listened to, it was mainly a lot of Enya and Lee Rosevere, with a bit of Anders Enger Jensen. Near the end of the year I also started listening to Jon Hopkins, in addition to one or two other artists featured in the “medleys” published on Music For Programming. Continue reading →
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🦆 Dialogue
Good Banter Not Found
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Some Caution on Using ROWIDs for Primary Keys in Sqlite 3
Relying on ROWIDs in SQLite can lead to reused IDs, causing issues with foreign key cascading deletes, which can be mitigated by using the
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Using Pagefind in Micro.blog to Only Return Posts in Search Results
When I tried out Pagefind for the first time on this site, I was finding that the results were including more than just the posts, such as the post lists, the stats page, the archive page, and a bunch of other indexed pages. These were crowding out the posts themselves, and I expressed my wish for a way to control the indexing in some way. Turns out there’s no need to modify the indexing, you can do this using Pagefind filters. Continue reading →
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Riding The Metro Tunnel
Checking out the new Metro Tunnel, and taking lots of photos in the process. Continue reading →
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Trying Out Pagefind in Micro.blog
Setting up Pagefind in Micro.blog and some early thoughts using it. Continue reading →
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📘 Devlog
Godot Project - Level 3-2 And Bobbing Water
After some distractions, progress on a Godot game level is underway, focusing on design elements like a generator sprite and a dynamic water mechanic. Continue reading →
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📘 Devlog
Blogging Tools - Image Collections Triage App
Using Google Antigravity to add an improved image triaging feature for Blogging Tools, allowing the user to categorise images from posts and automate header image updates. Continue reading →
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Some Thoughts on the State of Python Package Documentation
The lack of standardized and accessible documentation for Python packages hinders the user experience compared to other languages like Java and Go. Continue reading →
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Revisiting Preston Market
I was rendezvousing with a few people for dinner around Preston this evening. I was early so I’d though I’d walk around the closed market. I used to come here all the time when I was a kid, and it was nice walking the laneways again, even if everything was closed for the night. As with most places you revisit when you’re older, it’s smaller than I remembered. Continue reading →
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First Impressions Of Google Antigravity
Testing Google Antigravity revealed its potential as a coding aid, but the overwhelming suggestions and interface design deterred further use. Continue reading →
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Walking the Darebin Creek Trail
Had to do some stuff today that weighed on me a little, so it was nice to be given the opportunity to walk the Darebin Creek trail this evening. Walked as far as the Main Yarra Trail, beside the Eastern Freeway. It was a really lovely evening, and it called for some photos to be taken. Continue reading →
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Github FOMO
Haveing a self-hosted Forgejo instance is great, but it’s not without it’s tradeoffs. Continue reading →
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📘 Devlog
Blogging Tools - Chunking File Uploader
An attempt to improve upload speeds by chunking large files and uploading them via multiple HTTP requests dispatched concurrently. Spoiler: it didn’t help. Continue reading →
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On TOON And Human Readable Data Formats
My thoughts on defining human readable formats that are difficult to modify by hand, and taking it out on TOON which is geared towards LLMs. Continue reading →
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📘 Devlog
Laying The Groundwork For Dynamic Header Images
Making some changes to the Card theme I’m using for this blog. First think I’m considering is a banner image, similar to the one in Scripting News. And like Scripting News, I’m hoping for the image to change occasionally. I’d like the change to happen when the blog is being built, and in order to do this, I need a way to configure this value. I’m hoping to use Blogging Tools to do this, but to actually make use of these values, I’m hoping to use Hugo’s resource data methods. Continue reading →
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📘 Devlog
Dynamo Browse - Item View Annotations and Asynchronous Tasks
Adding to the UCL extension support in Dynamo Browse the ability to annotate displayed result items, plus scheduling tasks that will be executed in the background. Continue reading →