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2025

• I ordered a Thinkpad
• I don't like macOS as much as I used to
• mediaanalysisd continues to piss me off
• mediaanalysisd has gone rogue
• If the moon were only 1 pixel
• Natural keys
• JavaScript Temporal
• systemd.timer
• Learning in public
• Pushing back against the bullshit
• Even remote controls need to be rebooted now
• More thoughts on passkeys
• LG monitor deep sleep mode
• Reading log for 2024

2024

• Default apps
• Calm and considered news
• Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
• The United Stralia
• Open a random post
• iPhone Always-On display
• Never, Sometimes, Always
• The Last Campfire
• HBO’s Chernobyl
• macOS release notes
• Torture it into doing what you need
• Conspiracy of lawyers
• Another rant about Melbourne’s public transport
• Leap year bugs
• Best, first, favourite: The West Wing
• It is OK to use Unicode everywhere
• Firefox bug 1750706 has been resolved
• Regular expression crossword
• My iPhone Home Screen
• Alaska Airlines flight 1282
• Reading log for 2023

2023

• Errors in Kindle books
• Updated Sublime Text timestamp command
• datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated
• Sleazy pricing
• myki is embarrassing
• My computer history
• Firelight 2023
• New emojis in 2023-2024
• Apollo’s eulogy
• Ticketmaster fees
• Apollo is shutting down
• A handy list of valid uses for IP addresses
• More eBay questions
• Reproducing Django bug 34486
• Stop treating eBooks like paper books
• Django bug
• Your Competitor Wrote The RFP You’re Bidding On
• Ubuntu advertisements
• A bold new approach to the cloud
• Tom Scott tried using AI
• Sancoale Slab
• Buying a font
• GPS
• My website broke a different website
• Search!
• Reading log for 2022

2022

• Powered by Django
• Shawn Blanc’s favourite novels
• Site rebuild update
• Advent of Code 2022: I think I’m done
• Advent of Code 2022 day 14
• Advent of Code 2022 day 13 is done
• Advent of Code 2022 day 13
• Advent of Code 2022 day 12
• Advent of Code 2022 day 11
• Advent of Code 2022 day 10
• Advent of Code 2022 day 9
• Advent of Code 2022 day 8
• Advent of Code 2022 day 7
• Advent of Code 2022 day 5
• Advent of Code 2022 day 6
• Advent of Code 2022 day 4
• Advent of Code 2022 day 3
• Advent of Code 2022 day 2
• My blog platform is dying
• Advent of Code 2022 day 1
• Where Montague meets Lorimer
• Django form rendering
• GOV.UK Design System
• Eight years later

2021

• Reading log for 2021
• Beancount
• On autoloading
• Banktivity
• Converting Jekyll posts
• Time for a new platform?
• Internet service provider sues Netflix
• New Rails projects still wet the bed
• Rating system
• Ubiquiti USG: the conclusion
• CalDigit TS3 Plus, Logitech StreamCam, and macOS
• Dead (but not dead) Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway
• Astonishing indeed
• Reading log for 2020

2020

• Advent of Code 2020 day 25
• Advent of Code 2020 day 24
• Advent of Code 2020 day 23
• Advent of Code 2020 day 21
• Advent of Code 2020 day 22
• Advent of Code 2020 day 20
• Advent of Code 2020 day 19
• Advent of Code 2020 day 18
• Advent of Code 2020 day 17
• Advent of Code 2020 day 16
• Advent of Code 2020 day 15
• Advent of Code 2020 day 14
• Advent of Code 2020 day 13
• Advent of Code 2020 day 12
• Advent of Code 2020 day 11
• Advent of Code 2020 day 10 part 2
• Advent of Code 2020 day 10
• Advent of Code 2020 day 9
• Advent of Code 2020 day 8
• Advent of Code 2020 day 7
• Advent of Code 2020 day 6
• Advent of Code 2020 day 5
• Advent of Code 2020 day 4
• Advent of Code 2020 day 3
• Advent of Code 2020 day 2
• Advent of Code 2020 day 1
• News is bad for you
• SecureRandom.base58
• How to think about lockdowns
• Simple tips for security and serial numbers
• datetime
• Advice to young web developers
• 68 bits of unsolicited advice
• Something went wrong
• Octopus
• Cool mum
• Default macOS wallpapers in 5K
• Your communication preferences
• Netflix preview autoplay
• GitHub Code Vault
• Reading log

2019

• Visual Studio Code
• DHH tries Windows
• Malformed request
• Surface Laptop 3
• Why Senior Devs Write Dumb Code
• Bad day for Mozilla
• Bad laptop
• Windows: maybe not
• Sublime Text timestamp snippet
• FileVault
• AlternativeTo
• Windows software
• Switch to Windows?
• MacBook Pro keyboard
• Banksia
• Chrome extension manifest v3

2018

• The State of Web Browsers
• More myki confusion
• Feedbin: Private by Default
• RIP Pocket Weather AU
• Paul Hollywood’s scones
• Oranga Lake
• GDPR
• Rifle range
• London Bridge
• Overcast
• UniFi wireless uplinking
• Siri sass
• find

2017

• Granny Mac’s chocolate cake
• NAB login
• Trained barista’s
• KRACK
• It’s not summer everywhere
• HTTPS
• Slow down
• Long Distance
• The character of a man
• Outlawing maths
• You should hire an old programmer
• M&M cookies
• GetReversedHostname
• Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome
• JSON Feed
• How I wish I’d answered
• Windows 10 wallpaper
• Billboard facial recognition
• NTP pool mode
• Perfect safety
• Jury service
• New Zealand entry card resolution
• Epson Status Monitor
• New Zealand entry card

2016

• Summer wonderland
• Circle Line rogue train
• Dishonoured 2
• The question on everyone’s lips
• Thunderbolt 3, USB-C
• Hamilton Gardens
• Unexpected sign-in attempt
• man irb
• Dell XPS 13 9350
• The Fidget Cube
• Ian’s Shoelace Site
• A good project manager
• Coding As a Career Isn't Right for Me
• Mum's pancakes
• nanoblocks
• When to design
• Doughnut Time
• Life was never dull
• iPhone 6s - Timer
• Le Dîner en Blanc
• Also, the Earth would be destroyed
• SourceTree now needs an Atlassian account
• 52 factorial
• reddit preferences
• The website obesity crisis
• It often ain't as broke as we think

2015

• Pop!
• Carrot and corn
• Why New York subway lines are missing countdown clocks
• What can you put in a refrigerator
• I'm Australian
• Top 10 movies
• AFL grand final public holiday
• Concorde could fly again?
• Chrome user switching
• Firefox
• NetNewsWire
• 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual
• Concorde
• Snooker
• Citizenship
• 20 years earlier
• Strathearn Valley
• Edinburgh
• Craigrossie
• 3 bridges
• The Kelpies
• The Best (and Worst) Ways to Shuffle Cards
• Kids can't use computers
• myki
• Tilt shift
• Australia Day
• Octopress
• The subtle art of not giving a fuck
• Please resume start playing the game
• Update your footer
• 2015

2014

• Christmas at a distance
• Lesley's scones
• Power button
• Run your own country
• Test card 505
• 0 for January
• TripView
• Pocket Casts
• Baby formula *is* limited
• Baby formula is limited?
• Fairy bread
• Cupcake recipe
• Bald Hill
• OpenDNS in Australia
• Twenty20 International
• Sydney Olympic Park’s Stadia Vision
• Dear Sydney Trains

2013

• AFP
• Balmain Rentals
• Verify your backups
• Storm and Sandra
• The Stephensons
• MailMate crowd funding campaign
• Next train
• Results of the Aquatic Centre fire
• Fire at Sydney International Aquatic Centre
• Vodafone Call Catcher
• Kevin
• Double-width stroller
• Q1
• Sunset
• Tax return 2013
• Aussie snow
• Intelligent car park
• Melbourne from Eureka Skydeck
• State of Origin
• New theme
• Realtors should be nicer
• No parking
• Impreza
• Baby change RH
• ISO 8601
• I moved my ute
• UHI
• Sydney Harbour Bridge pylon lookout
• Duck
• 2013

2012

• Google Maps quick tips
• NAB's new password policy
• Offline files with Dropbox on iOS
• UK 2012
• Goodbye Telstra
• NAB's password policy
• The Oatmeal's attempts to purchase a TV show

2011

• Air France 447
• DNS and CDN
• A letter to Australian television broadcasters
• On the move
• Everything else is secondary
• zerosleeps 2.0
• The Big Picture: Space Shuttle Atlantis
• Vacuum cleaners
• Telstra MessageBank
• 10 years ago a browser was born
• Upgrading through every version of Windows
• You're having an OCL
• One year ago

2010

• Christmas 2010
• The Big Merino
• Timekeeping in Parliament House
• Superannuation
• Tax return
• 3.7ºC
• Toy Story 3
• Car share
• Vivid Sydney
• Quote of the day
• Australian banks
• Manly Beach
• Morning coffee
• Bondi Beach
• The Blue Mountains
• Mrs Macquarie's Point
• Tim Tam slam
• Week two
• Dalgety Square
• The University of Sydney
• Darling Harbour at night
• Photos!
• Week one
• I know, I know
• One sleep
• Four sleeps
• Five sleeps
• Getting pretty close
• More waiting
• GO!
• Got visa?
• Sitrep
• Health plan
• Visa application: phase one
• Bump
• Public transport
• Gathering momentum
• Creative engineering
• Instant messaging
• Jitters
• Our obsession with stuff