Digital Sovereignty: Infrastructure Choices
On my choosing how to self host services: *where* to host them, *how* to host them, touching on reliability and backups.…
Starting Digital Sovereignty
On moving away from US based SaaS and taking control starting with this blog itself with a move to Ghost.…
Thoughts and Analysis on COVIDSafe
As a way to help track the spread of COVID19 throughout Australia, the Australian government has rushed to market an app called COVIDSafe. Having data on COVID19 infections is a good thing, knowing when you have been in high risk of a being infected by a contagious person will enable…
Alfred Dropbox Snippets Workflow
I'm a big user of the macos utility app Alfred - its an amazing replacement for spotlight - but so much more too (go check it out if you don't know what it offers). Amongst other things, I have a good collection of URLs to animated…
Static Blog Time!
Because I rarely post anymore - indeed rarely use this domain apart from my personal email, I decided it was time to simplify. So I've migrated from WordPress to the Pelican static site generator and cleaned up the place while I was at it for relevance. I'…
Android Dev First Impression - WTFOMGBBQ
So I'm setting up the android SDK to play with, installing the Google "Android Developer Kit" which contains a modfiied Eclipse preconfigured with the android SDK. OK sounds good. Except on creating a new empty blank project it throws errors and I can't build…
Dear Australian eBook publishers on Apple's iBookStore
Dear Australian eBook publishers on Apple's iBookStore, Compare these two pictures and tell me why on earth I'd buy from iBooks and not Amazon? Here's a tip, don't try and sell an ebook for the same price I can pickup a physical…
The Tetris Company; business as usual 12 years on
12 years ago I received some cease and desist letters for my freeware tetris-clone Bedter. Its nice to know that 12 years on they are still sending the threats. I think its worth nothing that my tetris clone has been available online for download for every day of those 12…