Blog posts
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DevOpsDays Sydney 2019: The good, the great and the open spaces
A little bit about what made DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (my first!) so great as an attendee. I went to DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 this month, the first DevOps focussed conference I’ve been to thus far. It was...
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PyCon 2019
This year was my second Pycon, and it was somehow even better than last year?! Read on for my notes about why it was so good 😀 The things I enjoyed The people The Rainbow Curlyboi 🐍...
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Govhack 2019: The making of burra.town
What we did to make our Govhack 2019 project on suburbs and a Simcity visualisation. During GovHack this year, we produced a really neat prototype that visualises Sydney suburb development. We called...
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Short note - Captions
After wanting them for some time, I finally added captions support to my blog post images. Hopefully I’ll have some time to go back and sift through all of my blog posts and add some captions to them....
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Short note: Language agnostic scripts pls
Taking a look through the source code of Jekyll-Admin, I found a really good comment discussing the use of generalised scripts to do common tasks that are language-agnostic. This takes something like...
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Short note - Ta-ku's Nujabes tribute
Just discovered Ta-ku’s tribute to Nujabes; it’s real good. A sublime listen; if you haven’t listened to Nujabes I strongly suggest you find his album “Modal Soul” on Youtube and take some time to imm...
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What I'm doing in 2019
What I’m doing to get stuff done at work and in life, in 2019. It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these. I’ve been inspired by Rands’ post on “a context bucket for everything”. I’m trying not to...
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Short Note - Analogue Time
A brief meditation on the power of analogue stuff. Came across a neat blog post on overcoming digital addiction on FreeCodeCamp. The author had an interesting idea to make time out from our gadgets an...
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🌟 Achievement unlocked - May 2019
This month really just flew by, holy shit. Just before writing this, I was: Getting packed to go visit the bf before he goes overseas for a bit This path month, I achieved: ✅ Got my full license 🐶...
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HomeKit Automation with a Raspberry Pi
Where I’m going with my little bedroom-bound Raspberry Pi. After doing the initial work last June to set up a little Raspberry Pi complete with AirPlay to Sonos support (blog post on that here), I let...