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  • I’ve decided to change my attitude towards doing Kubernetes work. I’ll never be one to deploy Kubernetes for my own stuff, but a skill is a skill, and there’s very little downside in learning a new one.

    September 23, 2025 9:18am
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  • Don't Choose To Reuse (Yet)

    September 22, 2025 8:56pm
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    Designing software for reuse too early leads to unnecessary complexity and maintenance burdens, whereas focusing on immediate needs fosters simplicity and effectiveness. Continue reading β†’

  • How many people do you think know about pigeon racing? I know it’s not a common activity, but I thought most people would be aware of it. Yet I was listening to a podcasts today, and it sounded like one of the hosts, who may have been 5 years younger than me, was hearing about it for the first time.

    September 22, 2025 11:31am
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  • I appreciate that those making, and putting up, these signs are sticking to this classic phrase.

    A white sign on a blue building with the text POST NO BILLS
    September 22, 2025 8:45am
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    Photos

  • Argh! I keep forgetting Micropub wants everything to be an array. Setting a property in a h=post POST request to a plain old string doesn’t do anything. It took me 30 minutes of faffing about trying to get draft posts working before I turned to Claude Code to get the solution.

    September 21, 2025 12:02pm
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  • Not that I need more social media consumption in my life, but I do wonder if it’s possible to follow Mastodon profiles in a Mastodon client, while responding to them via Micro.blog. I would like to follow a few people who post on Mastodon, but they’re really chatty, and I rather avoid having them in my Micro.blog timeline. I could use my Mastodon account to follow them, but that’ll mean responses come from there, and not from Micro.blog. Is there a way to bridge the two, I wonder?

    September 21, 2025 12:01pm
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  • I keep forgetting that I have a Nebular subscription. I should use it more often.

    September 20, 2025 10:01pm
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  • New Theme, Who's Dis

    September 20, 2025 5:45pm
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    Galleries

    451 words about switching over from Tiny Theme to Mythos. Continue reading β†’

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    Im happy to report that you can take portrait selfies in landscape on the new iPhones. Absolute sicko behavior, of course, but it’s there!

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    2:07 AM β€’ September 20, 2025 (UTC)

    Portrait selfies with a phone in landscape orientation I can give or take. What I want is landscape photos from the phone in portrait. Device manufacturers, make that, then we’ll talk.

    September 20, 2025 3:29pm
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  • Retired my old kettle and set up my new one. Currently drinking my inaugural cup of tea from it, while I work on my site.

    A stainless steel kettle sitting on its base on a kitchen bench.
    September 20, 2025 11:35am
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    Photos

  • Just read this week’s P&B with @birming. Loved it. It’s always fascinating reading these interviews from people you follow.

    September 20, 2025 9:14am
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  • πŸ› οΈ Signboard

    A kanban app that writes Markdown files by Colin Devroe. Looks interesting. Will take a look when I need a standalone Kanban app.

    September 19, 2025 5:15pm
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    Tools

  • Can definitely recommend Nurse On-Call for any Victorian unsure about how to respond to a health problem. The queue was short, almost immediate, and the nurse took their time going through my concerns and symptoms. I got peace of mind and some material on what to do next. Wonderful service.

    September 19, 2025 11:47am
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  • Speaking of cafes, this pigeon is determined to get inside. It was shooed out a few minutes ago, but it wandered back in again. It’s at my feet while I write this.

    A pigeon is standing on a textured concrete surface.A pigeon is walking on a concrete floor near a wooden chair.

    September 18, 2025 1:35pm
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    Photos

  • Whenever I go to the cafe, I bring along my iPad to read through my RSS feeds. One day, a kid walked by my table and took a peek at my iPad screen. I can only image their disappointment when they discovered I had no video or game playing on there. 😏

    September 18, 2025 1:27pm
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  • Learning To Like Sentinel Errors In Go

    September 18, 2025 10:24am
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    Long Form Posts

    Golang

    Coming around to returning a result or an error in the Go programming instead of returning nil for both. Continue reading β†’

  • “Get out more” goal for September achieved. βœ…

    Boardgames at the Melbourne Central Lion Hotel again. Tonight, it was Codewords (had a go at being the spymaster this time) and Dixit.

    September 17, 2025 8:53pm
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  • πŸ› οΈ Glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! πŸ’…πŸ»

    Terminal Markdown viewer. Nice little app. My one criticism is that it should default to opening a file argument in the viewer, rather than just rendering the file to stdout. But otherwise, sure to be a useful little tool.

    September 17, 2025 9:45am
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    Tools

  • I saw Manton use ChatGPT to try and guess his age, in the context of OpenAI adding some age gating features. I was curious to know how it’d go with my age, so I did likewise, giving it this prompt:

    Based on your memory of past conversations, along with the various posts I make on sites such as lmika.org, can you guess my age?

    It’s guess:

    Putting all that together, my best guess is that you’re probably in your late 30s to early 40s.

    Great guess! I’m 40, so bang in the middle.

    Here’s a public link to the conversation outlining it’s reasoning (hey, first use of public ChatGPT share links!). All pretty accurate, especially around the topics of nostalgia.

    September 17, 2025 8:50am
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  • Spotted on my way to work: a Little Black Cormant and an Australasian Darter preening by the river.

    A heron and a starling are perched on a metal railing above a body of water.
    September 17, 2025 8:10am
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  • There’s not much us Android users have over iOS, but there is one: Myki integration with Google Wallet, with auto top-up. It really is quite nice not to worry about running out of credit when you’re rushing to catch the train.

    September 16, 2025 5:41pm
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  • It’d be nice if ChatGPT had an option to link to a specific position in a chat session while keeping the chat private. That way, I can effectively create a bookmark that I can place in notes and refer to later. I’ve started doing this for Slack messages too, and it’s been quite useful.

    September 16, 2025 2:30pm
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  • πŸ”— Steph Ango: File over app

    The files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.

    This is excellent advice, and one that I’m trying to practice better. I’d also argue that this can be extended to a software design principal, which is to assume the data will outlive the system. Therefore, prefer a data scheme that will be long lasting, and worry less about the systems that operate over it. This is why I found it distasteful to offload schema designs to ORMs.

    September 16, 2025 9:25am
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  • CSS is turning into quite a capable programming language. I just learnt that the language is getting custom functions and an if function. I’m quite excited to hear this.

    September 16, 2025 8:05am
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  • Credit to Metro. A tree blew over the line mid-afternoon, suspending the train line, and I was worried it would affect my commute. But they managed to clear it before peak time, and I experienced a smooth ride home. Very impressive recovery. πŸ‘

    September 15, 2025 6:36pm
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