I’ve been using Obsidian to write a story, partly for fun, partly as a de-stresser, but also to try my hand at a different form of writing. And one feature that I adore is the graph view which shows the relationships between your...

I recently started a new job and found myself in the Go ecosystem. To be honest, it has been a bit of a shock. I’ve written .NET code for the past 15 years and know its ins and outs pretty well. As a language, I don’t mind writing Go...

We had a conversation with one of my designer friends, Maria, a while ago. We talked about the usefulness of engineers' feedback on designs and how to make it helpful. I pondered the topic after our discussion. My friend was doing user...

I built myself a digital typewriter!

2024-07-28 Note: This is a transcript for a talk I delivered to Joel Carpenter's UQ Optics class in 2022. I found it in my notes and did not bother to re-read it before uploading. Feel free to yell at me if I've made any mistakes. From...

Life can be a beach if you choose wisely Photo by Mickey O’neil What does anyone go into retirement hoping for? No more work – check. No more 9-5 – check. Time to spend the way you want to, not the way someone expects you to. Most of the...

It’s July, and the passage of time continues to be disorienting. If you’re reading this in your RSS reader, I must implore you to read it on my blog itself because I designed a nice new post layout just for this and I want you to look at...