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Morning In Sherbrooke
A visit to Sherbrooke in the Dandenong Ranges on Easter Monday included a walk along the falls track, a sighting of a Superb Lyrebird, and a brief exploration of Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden. Continue reading →
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New Desk Chair Day
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Airing Of Draft Posts
A collection draft ideas and reflections, amassed over the last year, highlighting a mix of topics ranging from technology insights to personal musings. Continue reading →
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On Go And Using Comments For Annotations
Some thoughts of whether Go should have a dedicated syntax for annotations that comments are currently being used for. Continue reading →
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Don't Be Afraid Of Types
Types in coding projects are good. Don’t be afraid to create them when you need to. Continue reading →
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Replacing A Side Mirror Of A Toyota Echo
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Adventures In Godot: Respawning A Falling Platform
My taste of going through a Godot tutorial last week has got me wanting more, so I’ve set about building a game with it. Thanks to my limited art skills, I’m using the same asset pack that was used in the video, although I am planning to add a bit of my own here and there. But it’s the new mechanics I enjoy working on, such as adding falling platforms. If you’ve played any platformer, you know what these look like: platforms that are suspended in air, until the player lands on them, at which point gravity takes a hold and they start falling, usually into a pit killing the player in the process: Continue reading →
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Running PeerTube In Coolify
A guide for setting up a basic PeerTube instance on Coolify using a docker-compose file. Continue reading →
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Attending the DDD Melbourne 2025 Conference
Yesterday, I attended the DDD Melbourne 2025 conference. This was in service of my yearly goal to get out more, to be around people more often than I have been. So the whole reason I attended was to meet new people. That didn’t happen: I said hi to a few people I once worked with, and spoke to a few sponsors, but that was it. So although I marked it off my goal list, it wasn’t a huge success. Continue reading →
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An Incomplete List of DRM-Free Media Stores
A collection of links to online stores that sell DRM-Free media. Continue reading →
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Apple AI in Mail and What Could Be
Apple AI features in Mail currently do not help me. But they can, if Apple invited us to be more involved in what constitute an important email. Continue reading →
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First Impressions of the Cursor Editor
Trying out the Cursor editor to build a tool to move Micro.blog posts. Continue reading →
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Playing Around With MacOS Image Playground
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UCL: Some Updates
Made a few minor changes to UCL. Well, actually, I made one large change. I’ve renamed the foreach builtin to for. I was originally planning to have a for loop that worked much like other languages: you have a variable, a start value, and an end value, and you’d just iterate over the loop until you reach the end. I don’t know how this would’ve looked, but I imagined something like this: Continue reading →
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About My New Cooler's Programming Feature
There’s lots to like about my new cooler, but the programming feature is not one of them. My old unit had a very simple timer with two modes: turn cooler on after N hours, or turn cooler off after N hours. Anything else requires manual intervention. The old control panel (turns out I did have a photo, albeit an old one). Set the mode: cool/vent (fan), the power setting, then tap Timer Select to choose between turn on or off after N hours. Continue reading →
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Idea for UCL: Methods
I’m toying with the idea of adding methods to UCL. This will be similar to the methods that exist in Lua, in that they’re essentially functions that pass in the receiver as the first argument, although methods would only be definable by the native layer for the first version. Much like Lua though, methods would be invokable using the : “pair” operator. strs:to-upper "Hello" --> HELLO The idea is to make some of these methods on the types themselves, allowing their use on literals and the result of pipelines, as well as variables: Continue reading →
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On Slash Pages Verses Blog Posts
Interesting discussion on ShopTalk about slash pages and whether blog posts may make more sense for some of them. Chris and Dave makes the point that blog posts have the advantage of syndicating updates, something that static pages lack on most CMSs. It’s a good point, and a tension I feel occasionally. Not so much on this site, but there’ve been several attempts where I tried to make a site for technical knowledge, only to wonder whether a blog or a wiki makes more sense. Continue reading →
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Project Update: DSL Formats For Interactive Fiction
Still bouncing around things to work on at the moment. Most of the little features have been addressed, and I have little need to add anything pressing for the things I’ve been working on recently. As for the large features, well apathy’s taking care of those. But there is one project that is tugging at my attention. And it’s a bit of a strange one, as part of me just wants to kill it. Continue reading →
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Gallery of Fake Logo For Test Organisations
A collection of humorous fake logos for test organizations is created for work-related purposes, primarily showcasing film and media production studios. Continue reading →
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2024 Year In Review
It’s a few minutes to 12:00 PM on the 1st January 2025 when I published this. Thanks to time-zones, that means it’s just about to turn 12:00 AM one hour to the west of Greenwich, meaning that it’s still 2024 in much to the west of the prime meridian. So I’m technically still within the window of time where I could say I got a year in review post out for 2024. Continue reading →
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Home Screen Of 2024
It’s just turned 3:00 in the afternoon, and I was alternating between the couch and the computer desk, racking my brain on what to do. With no ongoing projects — a few ideas have been bouncing around, yet none has grabbed me so far, and I had nothing else in a state where I could just slip on some music or a podcast and work on — and seeing a few others make similar posts on their blogs, I’d figured I talk about my home screens. Continue reading →
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2024 Song of The Year
It’s Christmas Eve once again, which means it’s time for the Song of The Year for 2024. Looking at the new and rediscovered albums for the year, there are quite a few to choose from. The runners up are pretty much all from Lee Resevere, a new artist I’ve started listening to, and includes: Should I Run, by Kristen Martell, arranged by Lee Rosevere Miles Wide, from Synths Working Overtime, by Lee Rosevere We’ve Been Here Before and Hide Your Heart, from Stationary Loops, by Lee Rosevere But there can only be one winner, and this year it’s Oxygene, Pt. Continue reading →
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That Which Didn't Make The Cut
I did a bit of a clean-up of my projects folder yesterday, clearing out all the ideas that never made it off the ground. I’d figured it’d be good to write a few words about each one before erasing them from my hard drive for good. I suppose the healthiest thing to do would be to just let them go. But what can I say? Should a time come in the future where I wish to revisit them, it’d be better to have something written down than not. Continue reading →
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A Summer Theme
Made a slight tweak to my blog’s theme today, to “celebrate” the start of summer. I wanted a colour scheme that felt suitable for the season, which usually means hot, dry conditions. I went with one that uses yellow and brown as the primary colours. I suppose red would’ve been a more traditional representation of “hot”, but yellow felt like a better choice to invoke the sensation of dry vegetation. I did want to make it subtle though: it’s easy for a really saturated yellow to be quite garish, especially when used as a background. Continue reading →
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Delta of the Defaults 2024
It’s a little over a year since Dual of the Defaults, and I see that Robb and Maique are posting their updates for 2024, so I’d thought I do the same. There’ve only been a few changes since last year, so much like Robb, I’m only posting the delta: Notes: Obsidian for work. Notion for personal use if the note is long-lived. But I’ve started using Micro.blog notes and Strata for the more short-term notes I make from day to day. Continue reading →