Hi! π I'm Daniel, a software engineer living in Canberra, Australia.
Welcome to my personal site! This is where I post the things I have written, the photos I have taken, the bookmarks I have saved, the places I have been, and a whole bunch more.
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One thing I miss from the iPhone mini is being able to plug it in at 20% charge and be at 80% in a handful of minutes.
Conversely, one thing I don't miss is needing to live in low power mode in order to have the battery last half a day
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For the longest time, I have wanted to be able to write with just an iPad, with markdown, in some native text editor and not need to copy and paste text in to a WYSYWIG.
My previous attempts included: - WordPress; which was okay. Though it ...
Update 1 β G'day mate
The first few weeks of any new project are always the most exciting! When exploration and problem solving us abundant, and suffering for decisions of yesterday is scarce.
Over the last few weeks I have been putting together a small app to h...
How I debug with Ruby
Over the many years that I have been working with Ruby, I have never really learned to use a debugger, and really only lean on tools like Pry to start a REPL session at a particular line in some Ruby code. From there, I reach for Ruby's ...
How I use Obsidian
Ruby learning materials.
I often get asked about recommendations for resources to learn Ruby (and how to program, generally). This list is intended to catalogue the various resources I have shared over the years and be an easy reference point for future learners.
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