Archive: 2023

Naming things is ~hard~ fun

Like most people*, I like to name the various devices in the house after a theme. For the longest time, my devices were unnamed, until I move...

Managing dotfiles.

It's not often that I get a new computer, but on the odd occasion that I do, I like to have all of my config prepared and ready to copy o...

Deploying a Hanami 2.0 app to fly.io.

I have a couple of small hobby apps that were on Heroku's free tier (RIP) that I have now moved over to Fly.io. Fly.io has a migrate from...

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 v...

Tagged: ruby

Week 1 β€” This time, for sure.

  • πŸ“² New blog, who this? I have been re-building this site with Hanami & Tailwind, following the W3C's Micropub spec (mainly so I can l...

Week 2 β€” Next week, and next week.

  • Nintendo dropped a surprise release of Metroid Prime Remastered on us this week! I remember reading, and re-reading all of the promotional m...

Week 3 β€” Ruby Ruby Ruby.

Week 4 β€” Meet the team.

  • I am coming to the end of my week in Melbourne. It's been a great little week. Taking the train to work continues to be a novelty as doe...

Week 5 β€” Plant's alive!

  • I've been working on the backend of this blog to pull in all the stuff I have, from various places of the internet. So far, that's b...

Week 6 β€” Sleepless in CBR

  • This week, the temperature has cooled way down in Canberra. I've had to double up on long sleeve shirts some days to stay warm, and some...

Week 7 β€” Same same, but different

  • I finished the Lightfall campaign this week on legendary! It was pretty amazing knocking over the last encounter solo. It took me a bit of b...

Week 8 β€” πŸ‚

  • It's been a bit f a quiet week this week β€” well, at home anyway. Work has been full on, and maybe that has contributed to the quietness ...

Week 9 β€” Pizza time

  • We've recently purchased an Ooni pizza oven πŸŽ‰. Our closest Good Pizza Placeβ„’ is a 40min round trip away. Which is fine if we can eat in,...

Week 10 β€” Double digits πŸŽ‰

  • I've been trying to get back in to scrobbling things I listen to to last.fm again. Partly so I can display the week's top track at t...

How I use Obsidian

I've been using Obsidian for a little while now. At first, it was largely just a replacement for Notes.app, like Ulysses before it, I pre...

Week 11 β€” Easter

  • Another short week this week on account of Easter, which was nice! Speaking of, Greek Easter is this weekend β€” so Ξ§ΟΞΉΟƒΟ„ΟŒΟ‚ Ανέστη to all who ...

Week 12 β€” Layoffs

  • This week has been rough on many fronts. Layoffs at work have meant we have lost some of the most brilliant people I have had the chance to ...

Week 13 β€” Another longie

  • Yet another long weekend, making for a short week :D Though I think this is the last longie for a little bit now. This time, we were off on ...

Week 14 β€” Blog updates

  • Regular length week this week ;)
  • I have been adding some behind the scenes features to this blog. Up until now, I have been using a handful ...

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...

Tagged: ruby

Week 15 β€” Hiyah!

It's Tears of the Kingdom time! I played the heck out of Breath of the Wild, and am so excited for this instalment in the series. I am no...

Week 16 β€” Four more months!

This week's post marks 4 months of weekly posts! I have never really gotten in to the habit of writing (as much as I have wanted to), but...

Tagged: hanamiweekly

Week 17 β€” So long, Mercury

I took down Mercury from the iOS App Store this week and have opened a PR to remove it from the Mastodon marketing site. I built it in my spa...

Week 18 β€” Discovering Hyrule

The weather this week was suuuper weird! It's like Autumn was throwing out one last hurrah. After a couple days of -6Β°C last week, we had...

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