Daniel Nitsikopoulos

• The weather has been ace in Canberra this week, and especially this weekend! Even though it's been cold in the morning and evenings, we're getting those awesome Autumn days that get to around 19-20 degrees by lunch time, and cool ri...

• Late one this week on account of a busy weekend!
• I was in Sydney on Wednesday this week to attend the first ever Ruby in Common! Ruby conf is one of my favourite times of year, and I missed out on attending this year — but this made up for ...

• A quiet one this week!
• Another four day work week (which felt like home), was incredibly rewarding.
• I've been working my way through more of the Playstation's free games catalogue. This time trying out Tales of Arise. Earlier in th...

• 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...

• I spent some of the long weekend over at the new place pulling out more fixtures. We're just down to the bathroom and kitchen now which I should be able to do next weekend before we get some people in to rip out and dispose of the walls...

• 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...

• It was a warm one this week! Perhaps summer giving its last hurrah before we dive in to the chill of a Canberra Autumn!
• Work has been quite stressful these last few weeks — I'm leading the upgrade of a service that is central to our pla...

• Lots of catchup this week, post company offsite! It was also my last official week as a team lead! I'm very much looking forward to being able to focus on the technical success of the team and partnering with some other folks to fill 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...

• This post marks a year of updating this site on a regular (pretty much weekly) basis! As the year has gone on, I have been thinking about how to title these posts. For the past year, it has been week number followed by some theme from the w...

• First week back at work started off hot! Back to back meetings and onboarding new folks is one way to jump-start the old memory :D Thankfully I had written up some decent notes so I could ramp up pretty quickly!
• This weekend was a weird one...

• It was a quiet week this week :) I spent the first half of it cleaning out and re-painting my home office. The walls were an odd yellow colour — which no longer matched the colour of the rest of the house. Thankfully, the walls were in pret...

• 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...

• We did it. We made it through 2023! onwards to all the great* things 2024 has to offer us.
• This week has been pretty relaxing! More relaxing than usual for the week between Christmas and the New Year.
• Christmas day was lovely (a little sto...

• What a week! I was hoping for a quiet fade out to the end of the year — but as with most things this year — it was not meant to be! The week started off with a precautionary incident response that needed to happen across multiple teams. The...

• It's the last week of the work year! And with it comes the mayhem of trying to wrap everything up lest it's forgotten in the ~2-3 weeks between now an when we get back to it.
• Barkly was feeling a bit poorly earlier in the week. When...

• I spent part of this week in Melbourne, and I think 3 days or so is the perfect amount of time when I'm also travelling in to the office each day. Any more and the exhaustion sets in from not being used to the commute 😅.
• I caught upon ...

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...

The December is screaming over the horizon and in to view, and with it, the many plans and things that need to happen by the magical time of "the end of the year". One of the plans I am looking forward to is taking off to Melbourne...

• I made a couple of updates to this site this weekend. Mainly some behind the scenes things to update Hanami to 2.1.0rc2 and to bring some of the core pieces in line with what will be generated when 2.1.0 ships! A couple of highlights:

  • Mo...

• It's finally starting to feel like summer here now! I've been wearing shorts and a t-shirt for most of the week. It's nice not not be freezing all of the time, but I would trade that for the garden not being burnt to a crisp!
• It...

• I started reading Berserk this week to have something not-so-serious to read for a change. I didn't realise just how much popular culture was inspired by it! There is literally a panel in the first volume that may as well be the cover o...

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...

It's been freeeezing in Canberra this week! I had to turn the little space heater on on my office a couple of times this week — even after putting on a bunch of layers! The exception being the stunning days we had this weekend.

Abby is ...

• For a couple of years we've been subscribed to Thieves coffee. They ship us a kilo of coffee roasted for filter each month, and each month is a new roaster! So it's a great way to check out a bunch of different roasters. Abby recent...

Abby is off to the UK for the next 2 weeks. So it's just been me and the dogs kicking about at home. The last time she was overseas while I was at home was before the pandemic when she was posted overseas for a few weeks. Back then, it w...

• Week 1 with the new iPhone down, and it has been really nice! I didn't think I would adjust to the size as quickly as I did, and it is super nice to be able to type with both hands and use PiP and still see what is playing 😅.
• macOS Sono...

• Happy new iPhone and new iOS week to all who observe! I have been holding off upgrading my phone for a few years now. I picked up a 12 mini at the height of the pandemic (when going too far from a charger was not all that frequent) and have...

• This week has been a planning week at work, along with the regular things that we need to keep on top of. And while I do enjoy being prepared for what is to come, it can be tricky to balance introducing and thinking about new work, with try...

• This week, I finally feel like I'm back in the swing of things! But we'll see how long that lasts as we're getting in to planning for the next quarter at work (and Abby is off overseas in the next few weeks).
• I have been chippin...

• This week was our first week back at work post-holiday. What a shock to the system 😅! While nothing at work was on-fire, there were several days in the week where I thought to myself "was I able to do all of this before" — it was ...

• 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 ...

• This week, Abby and I have been travelling around New Zealand. We left Sydney on Monday night, and got in to our hotel in Aukland early on Tuesday morning. Our itinerary consisted of 2 nights in a hotel, and a booked car for 10 days. Where ...

• Short week at work this week. This quarter's refresh day fell on Monday. It was sunny up in Canberra, so I used it to clean the fly screens and do some other outdoor tidying. On Thursday morning, I flew in to Melbourne and met some coll...

• 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...

• I caught up with a colleague from Melbourne and their partner this week for lunch, and it was lovely! Lunch time hangs and unscheduled social time are some of the things that I miss the most about "working from the office". There ...

• 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 ...

My playdate arrived while I was in Melbourne last week! I pre-ordered it when they opened back in 2021, and it was absolutely worth the wait! The hardware itself so solid and adorable and the OS is whimsical AF. It shipped with a couple of g...

• 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 morning I flew out to Melbourne. I have a habit, when travelling, to get to wherever I need to be well in advance of the suggested arrival times. So if an airline is asking me to be at the gate ~40 mins before departure, I am usually t...

I've been playing through Diablo IV this weekend — so far it has surpassed my expectations! Aesthetically, it feels much more like a direct sequel to Diablo II, than Diablo III. The whimsy of Diablo III was interesting at the time, but ...

It's been icy this week! So much so that most mornings have involved frosty grass (which is always entertaining to see the dogs walk on before they realise how chilly it is).

It's also another short week as we celebrate(?) the King&...

The weather this week was suuuper weird! It's like Autumn was throwing out one last hurrah. After a couple days of -6°C last week, we had some pretty warm ones this week. So much so that I had to carry my jacket on my walk to the shops! ...

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 spare time over ~2018-2020, then hit a bunch of App Store Review roadblocks. With the inability to addr...

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...

• 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 account of ANZAC day. The public holiday fell on a Tuesday this year. Some folks took the Monday off...

• 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 work with. Some had been with us for a good chunk of their career and the company's life. It'...

• Another short week this week on account of Easter, which was nice! Speaking of, Greek Easter is this weekend — so Χριστός Ανέστη to all who celebrate :D
• I've been working on clearing out all of the brush around our shed over the last fe...

• 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 the bottom of these posts, but also because I looked back at my scrobbles from 2008-2009 and found so...

• We've recently purchased an Ooni pizza oven 🎉. Our closest Good Pizza Place™ is a 40min round trip away. Which is fine if we can eat in, but because the pizzas are so thin, they travel incredibly poorly! We used to have a pizza stone fo...

• It's been a bit f a quiet week this week — well, at home anyway. Work has been full on, and maybe that has contributed to the quietness of the week.
• Contrary to what I mentioned last week, the weather has started to turn here in Canberr...

• 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 bumping up against the whack physics in Destiny, but got there in the end :) The missions and setting...

• 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 of the leaves on our trees are starting to turn 🍂
• I've been playing through the new "Ligh...

• 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 ...

• 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 does getting home past 7pm. I don't know how I managed to do that in the pre-work-from-home days, a...

• I've been listening to the latest The Adventure Zone campaign, Steeplechase . Based on the Blades in the Dark tabletop RPG, it seems to be a much faster paced campaign as compared to some of the other DnD based campaigns. So far I am qu...

• Nintendo dropped a surprise release of Metroid Prime Remastered on us this week! I remember reading, and re-reading all of the promotional material of the original when it was announced out in ~2001. Then being amazed by the detail in Samu...

• 📲 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...