Blog posts
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Spectre: Initial usage
Last weekend, I went for a little walk down to Blackwattle Bay, and spent some time taking some photos on my phone as the sun set. I had heard about a neat little app that allows you...
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Mushrooms are fun?
So I bought a mushroom growing kit as a gift for a friend last September. Being a lazy millenial though I haven’t actually gotten around to giving it to her (we have seen each other plenty, I just kee...
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Room names @ Qwilr Sydney
From what I can tell, it’s pretty on-brand to have clever or significant names for meeting rooms at trendy startups. As a trendy startup, Qwilr are no exception. Our new Redfern office has a few meeti...
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NCSS 2020
I had the fortune of participating at NCSS as a tutor again this year, from 3-12 January 2020. This year’s NCSS was held in two locations for the first time. I took a bunch of photos that captured my...
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📚 Books of 2019
What I read this year could loosely be described as “anticapitalist stuff”. It was enjoyable; a particular highlight was “How To Do Nothing” as I alluded to in last year’s book compilation. Thanks to...
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The awesomeness of Autoprefixer (and browserslist)
The rocky introductory days of CSS3 were where I cut my teeth as a web developer, and it was where I learnt how much I disliked prefixes. I remember distinctly reading about how, if I wanted to use th...
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Hey Jeeves
Everyone at Qwilr keeps a list of goals/things achieved the previous week, and it’s distributed around the company through the “standup” email thread each week. I’m not the first to have discussed the...
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Building something small
This weekend, I took a Friday off and headed up to the coast to have a little holiday, and build something small on the web along the way. I didn’t want the building project to take up my entire weeke...
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Maintenance
A brief meditation of the cost of maintenance, and upgrading to Jekyll 4.0. Lately I’ve been thinking a fair bit about maintenance, and the importance of not just ignoring it. And how hard it is to no...
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Sunrise
Woke up this morning and took some sunrise photos. Reading: Digital minimalism Listening to: “Productivity Shame”, a podcast episode by Jocelyn Glei Jamming to: “104 Degrees” by Slaughter Beach, Dog...