Blog posts
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Attractive things work better (jnd.org)
Some interesting food for thought....
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Pasta
We’re doing some cooking challenges at work at the moment, and this last week’s challenge was to cook homemade pasta! We elected to bite the bullet and buy a pasta machine, because we’ve made pasta fr...
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Yalc and fast feedback loops
As mentioned in one of my previous posts, I’ve been making intensive use of Slate, an open source Javascript project, which is developed as a monorepo and published to npm. As part of working on it I’...
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Space for BLM
It felt wrong to not use my own platform to speak out about Black Lives Matter, and “just” post something about going carless this weekend when there is so much more important events occuring. One of...
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Going Carless
With the exception of a brief period when I first moved out of home, I’ve had a car of my own my whole life. At first, it was a necessity - living in the outer western suburbs of Sydney is not practic...
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A fix for Slate, and on open source projects
Over the past few months, I’ve been helping out at Qwilr upgrading the version the core library underpinning our editor experience, Slate. Slate is a really cool library that I have a hard time explai...
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Sirius, etc.
From Wikipedia: The Sirius building is an apartment complex in The Rocks district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Designed for the Housing Commission of New South Wales in 1978–1979 b...
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Gifts from my Pocket archive
Over this long long event-less weekend, I’ve had some time to breathe and cull my Pocket archive (without much care for the stuff I cull; see the note on calling bankruptcy below). I thought I’d take...
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The Coal Loader
We took a trip up to the Coal Loader Centre For Sustainability a few weeks ago, as I figured it would be one of the more quiet and social-distance-able parklands around the inner city, and we had some...
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Park life
In the current climate, it has been hard to enjoy simple moments without feeling like we are trivialising broader happenings. I moved in with my partner a few weeks ago, and we now live opposite one o...