About the new desk chair I bought that arrived today.
Posts in "Long Form Posts"
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.
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.
Don't Be Afraid Of Types
Types in coding projects are good. Don’t be afraid to create them when you need to.
Replacing A Side Mirror Of A Toyota Echo
Replacing a broken car mirror myself.
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:
Running PeerTube In Coolify
A guide for setting up a basic PeerTube instance on Coolify using a docker-compose file.
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.
An Incomplete List of DRM-Free Media Stores
A collection of links to online stores that sell DRM-Free media.
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.