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...
Week 1 β This time, for sure.
- π² 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.
- I've been listening to the latest The Adventure Zone campaign, Steeplechase . Based on the Blades in the Dark tabletop RPG, it seems to ...
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 π
- 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 π. Our closest Good Pizza Placeβ’ is a 40min round trip away. Which is fine if we can eat in,...
Week 10 β Double digits π
- 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
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§ΟΞΉΟΟΟΟ ΞΞ½ΞΟΟΞ· 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...
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...
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...