Daniel Nitsikopoulos

• 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 continuing at the new place, all of the plaster has come off the walls and almost al...

• 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 of stubborn screws, and there are just a handful of pieces that are attached to someth...

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 & search, but I have been using it more and more this last month, so it gets ...

• 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 get stuck in to some work in the new place, which is (at the moment) lacking any cooli...

• 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 evening.
• On Tuesday, we managed to do a run through of a major database upgrade in a...

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 so much more utility with Obsidian.
• A couple of shortcuts for posting to th...

• 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 we lived there and I don't think either of us miss the madness of it all.
• My work t...

• 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 time 🌀
• I made a joke just before I started painting and doing up my office, t...

• 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 in Canberra this week. I have been a fan of Miyazaki's work since I saw Spirite...

Finished reading Neuromancer by William Gibson the other week! As a fan of modern sci-fi films and games it was really interesting to see where so much of the inspiration came from. From "the matrix" in the titular The Matrix, to the twin AI constructs in Deus Ex. 10/10 would read again.📚

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 this, was based on HTTP BasicAuth. To get this to work, I built a small module that uses ...

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 :)

I have been doing a bunch of work on this site over the weekend — mainly styling updates...

Currently reading: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey 📚— only a few chapters in, and very excited for the many books ahead.

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 decorations around the neighbourhood. Nothing crazy and over the top, but some pretty...

• 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 seemingly infinite geothermal activity. Local parks have fenced off geothermal pools, our ...

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 ...

• 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! There are no concrete plans, other than get on a plan to New Zealand, pic...

• 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 I started with SwiftUI was a re-write of Mercury, but CoreData proved to be a rig...

• 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 of days of weather warm enough to leave some windows and doors open. Now this is probably ...

• 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 has since gained 4 more, so I took this chance to meet almost everyone (thanks again COVI...

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 that even just writing these weekly posts has made it easier to get in to the habit of...

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 of open world games, but that's usually because there's only a small section...

• 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 clients, and some Ruby scripts to publish and manage posts. This has all been working we...

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 because I could see the markdown files that it was saving. As time went on though, ...

• 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 as well as places I have checked in to on Swarm. It's been a bit of ...

• 📲 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 amazing compatible clients out there to write posts like this).
• Since the enshit...

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.

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 this, I am using chezmoi and GitHub to keep an up to date snapshot of my dotfiles. ...