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Leon Mika
Software engineer in Melbourne, Australia.
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  • Been a while since I visited Melbourne University. Good seeing the old haunts again.

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    December 13, 2025 9:59am
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  • Someone should roll out vending machines that sell pocket-sized tubes of sun screen. At this time of year, such machines would be more useful to me that the ones that vend rechargeable batteries.

    December 13, 2025 9:08am
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  • iPadOS 26 is still quite buggy. Safari shows visual glitches when I switch over to it, only for them to disappear when I start scrolling. And today, I spent a good few minutes fighting the horizontal scroll-panes in the share sheet to scroll to the bottom. They really need to polish this up.

    December 13, 2025 8:58am
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  • 🛠️ Doom Text Generator

    Looks like fun. Giving it a whirl:

    Text in Doom-like pixelated font. Message: Am I asking for too much to want obsidian to add multi-cursor support? (Press Y/N)

    Via: Martin Hähnel

    December 12, 2025 4:14pm
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  • I’ve been thinking about my career recently, wondering what my next step will be. Part of me is starting to feel a little entrepreneurial, actually. I do have an idea for something. May spend my upcoming leave exploring it a little.

    December 12, 2025 7:34am
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  • One of these days, I really should take a real look at Rust. Had a great conversation with a colleague about the language today and learnt some interesting tidbits, such as Rust being one of the few languages allowed in the Linux kernel (not even C++ can make that claim 😀).

    December 11, 2025 4:37pm
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  • From Robb Knight’s most recent blog post:

    Why am I making a blog post with the same information as the Reddit thread? The reasons are twofold:

    1. I’ll probably need to reference this in the future.
    2. I can’t rely on a random Reddit thread (or two in this case) still existing in a months time, let alone a year or more.

    That’s pretty much the same reasons why I repost instructions I found elsewhere here too (with proper attribution, of course). I’d also add that explaining the information yourself helps, just so that you know you know it.

    December 11, 2025 9:37am
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  • TIL that the publishers of Wingspan has published a similar game called Wyrmspan. Similar mechanics except that instead of birds, you’re tasked with building habits for dragons. Looks interesting.

    December 10, 2025 9:09pm
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  • I’ve yet to ride the new Metro Tunnel (hopefully this weekend) but I did get a sneak peek of State Library concourse. Looks amazing. Looking forward to seeing the actual platforms.

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    December 10, 2025 5:09pm
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  • All the recent talk about Warner Brothers and Netflix has got me wanting to listen to Paul Simon’s Graceland. Why? Because the vinyl record we had when I was quite young was published by Warner Brothers and had the classic WB logo on the label. I knew how to operate the record player at the time, and it was one of the few albums I put on myself.

    December 10, 2025 7:48am
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  • I wonder which is harder: learning everything there is to know about Kubernetes, or starting a successful business where you don’t need to use Kubernetes.

    December 9, 2025 2:16pm
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  • Trying Out Pagefind in Micro.blog

    December 9, 2025 8:21am
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    Setting up Pagefind in Micro.blog and some early thoughts using it. Continue reading →

  • 📘 Devlog

    Godot Project - Level 3-2 And Bobbing Water

    December 8, 2025 10:32pm
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    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 →

  • Pro tip: success in writing partly includes knowing your audience. Even if it’s an audience of just one (yourself) but especially if you know it’s for an audience of others. Some empathy in seeing how they’ll interpret your writing will go a long way.

    December 8, 2025 5:07pm
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  • From the bridge.

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    December 8, 2025 7:21am
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  • The view from Violet Town.

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    December 7, 2025 5:04pm
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  • Table legs: the natural enemy of knees everywhere. 😫

    December 7, 2025 8:03am
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  • Dug out my Flutter RSS reader project and worked on it a bit today. The good news is that the release build doesn’t have the janky scrolling, so using Flutter is viable. The bad news is that there’s so much more work to go to make this anywhere near usable as a replacement for Feedbin’s PWA.

    December 6, 2025 11:39am
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  • If I ever built an RSS reader, I can guarantee you that you’ll be able to follow my progress… on my RSS reader! 😛

    (Although probably not because it’d like be a slow, buggy mess that’ll see no work for a full year).

    December 6, 2025 7:42am
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  • It seems like my Autumnal cravings have shifted into early Summer.

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    December 5, 2025 7:08am
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  • “Get out more” goal for December achieved. ✅

    Ending the year much like how it began: with a work event. This time it was the office Christmas party.

    December 4, 2025 8:14pm
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  • I keep forgetting that Mastodon offers a way to follow posters via RSS. Gives me an opportunity to follow those that post way to frequently for my liking to follow them in Micro.blog. Strips out replies too, which don’t interest me, although I do loose the boosts (and maybe quote posts too?).

    December 4, 2025 10:47am
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  • Good to hear that Stephen Lemay, a software developer, is taking over software design from Alan Dye at Apple. Having someone who knows how to use git revert might be useful. 😛

    December 4, 2025 8:30am
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  • 🕹️ Downpour: A Proper Cup of Tea

    I find this delightful.

    December 3, 2025 4:57pm
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  • When it comes to reading social cues, I am the absolute worst. If you need me to know something, please don’t be subtle. You really need to bash me over the head with it.

    December 3, 2025 8:09am
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