Personal blogs

I really enjoyed spending some time last year learning about cognition, and I didn’t want it to end there. Plus as we (kinda, sorta) come out of COVID, I wanted to start meeting other human …

Quiet week, basically. Yes, I did go for an eye test. It revealed I have astigmatism and would benefit from wearing glasses to correct it. At least, that’s what the optician said, but it’s exactly …

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Replied to “American Motherhood Felt Like That: Like a Plan Devised by Men.” by Amanda Montei (Culture Study) That phrase “she asked for it”—and really just that notion that we make choices and then because …

A wet and windy week alternating with Indian Summer sunshine. Lost passport (found, in the nick of time). Lost dog (owner eventually tracked down). A lovely couple of days with Clan Russell. Cheers! More weeknotes …

It’s been a while since I last posted one of these installments to the blog. If you’ve been checking in here for the past year, you will have noticed that my activity here has been …

Another bowl of the exotically named Machu Pichu chillies. When ripe they turn a lovely chocolate brown colour and then into the dehydrator they go. Once they are dried out they are ground up in …

If you’re a developer, sooner or later you’ll need to poll a website or URL, looking for information. There are good and bad uses of this, (looking at you, Ticketmaster and scalpers) and I want …

So since this discovery, brought on by extensive exploration into what keyboard stands I could find to fit my purpose, I decided to make my own. But do you need to have a keyboard stand …

Posted on September 20, 2023 And another half-written article I had in my repo. (Am I doing #FallFinishAlong with blog articles instead of / in addition to craft projects? it feels so). I was in …

So often the promise of a thing is huge and covered in bright lights; exciting and life changing and altogether wooo. Marketing does this, social media does this, and our natural response is amygdala-like: “shit …

I have been thinking a lot about worldbuilding over the last year or so, in a deliberately more expansive sense than the one common to sf discourse, though taking that sense (naturally enough) as my …

Tim Bond, OSF’s new artistic director, and Evren Odcikin, associate artistic director, announced the festival’s 2024 season and it looks like pretty good. There were rumblings that the season would be shorter than usual (it …

Laying in bed, writing on my phone. I can hear my sister in the kitchen eating a bite of breakfast. Today’s the day. I’m nervous as hell. So many what if’s competing for first place. …

First use of Terraform in Azure - a Go function app running on a schedule

The snow is still here from yesterday. It is enough snow to close some schools, but not others. The kind of snow a seasoned winter-ist would scoff at – just a dusting! The kind of …

7603/20542I love a day when I release far too many podcasts. Twitch of Fun went up and I did a most excellent stone clear in the morning.RHLSTP Book Club with David Mitchell (not that one) …

Collecting rosehips and checking a phone-to-WP issue.

Last night I made gefilte fish for the first time. I am feeling weirdly emotional about it. This post is an attempt to process that. Gefilte fish, if you have never heard of it, is …

So many trips to document! After a quiet January settling back in Sydney, in February I headed to Singapore to help deliver the opening and closing keynotes for AWS Innovate AIML edition. I headed into …