Posts tagged blog
Week 74 — Loud noises
This was an odd week. I was one of a few responders on an incident early in the week. We were first raised at ~10pm AEST, and were able to resolve things...
Week 71 — Elden Ringing
Quiet week outside of work this week. Work-wise, we kicked off our fortnight of performance reviews, which is always so difficult (but worthwhile). I...
Week 68 — One for the dogs
I managed to get a booking with a tattoo artist I have been keeping an eye on for a while now to get a tattoo of Barkly and Crumpet :D The guy was incredibly...
Week of 25 March
Short week this week on account of Easter. It's been super crazy at work these last few weeks, so the 4 days off is incredibly welcome. Renovations are...
Week of 18 March
I spent some of the weekend taking out some of the kitchen and bathroom installations in the new place. Most of it was simple enough, with just a handful...
My Home Screen for March '24
My Home Screen for March '24 Shrinking down the music widget and bringing in a couple more apps — specifically Mail. I tried opening it with a swipe down...
Week of 4 March
Summer seems to be back again this week! We've had a streak of a couple ~30° days this week. While I normally welcome the heat, I was kinda hoping to...
Week of 26 February
What a mixed week! This week was bookended with 2 pretty wild events. On Monday night, I flew in to Melbourne in preparation to go see Blink-182 on Tuesday...
My Home Screen for Feb '24
My Home Screen for February'24 (Ignore the unreads — I will reply to them at some point!) Obsidian is a staple, notes used to be my go to, but I've found...
Week of 5 February
Abby and I spent this week in Melbourne — we both had work things that both happened to land this week. It was the first tome we stayed in the CBD since...
Week of 29 January
Busy week this week ahead of our work's offsite next week, trying to get a bunch crammed in before a week of interruptions, oh and it's performance review...
Week 49 — Birthday week
I had this week off work and have been holidaying & catching up on some life admin things. I managed to catch The Boy and the Heron before its run ended...
Authenticated routes with Hanami 2
As I was building out the admin area of this blog, I wanted to make sure only authenticated people could hop in an edit things. The first iteration of...
Week 44 — Beginning to wind it up
A productive week this week as the year starts to wind down! I am off to Melbourne in a few days, so super excited to go see some friends and family :)...
Week 39 — 👻
The weather was slightly better this week — no need for busting out the space heater at least! The last few weeks have seen a steady increase in halloween...
Week 30 — New Zealand pt. 2 and back home
We spent the first half of this week in New Zealand, wrapping up the rest of our trip from last week. On Monday we drove out to Rotorua — a city with...
How I write this blog on an iPad
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...
Week 27 — Blues and travelling
We're getting ready for a couple weeks of holiday in the coming weeks! It'll be the first time we've had a proper holiday since 2017, and I am so excited...
Week 26 — File > New Project
I started a new iOS project this week to help out Abby's sewing hobby (but also to take a look at some of the new things with SwiftData). The last project...
Week 24 — Excited about events
Almost half way through the year, and half way through winter! This weekend was a beauty here in Canberra. It was sunny as usual, but we had a couple...
Week 22 — Thank you MEL
Another week in Melbourne in the books! I spent this one mainly visiting family and working. The last time I was down, my team was all of 3 people. It...
Week 16 — 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 I have found...
Week 15 — 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 not usually a fan...
Week 14 — 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 of micropub...
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 preferred it purely...
Week 5 — 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 been photos off of Instagram...
Week 1 — This time, for sure.
📲 New blog, who this? I have been re-building this site with Hanami & Tailwind, following the W3C's Micropub spec (mainly so I can leverage plethora of...
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...
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 over! To achieve...