Posts

Why “accountability” is a buzzword.

Justifying code review to myself.

My thoughts on this espresso machine after 18 months.

How I got fired from my first developer job.

I’m sick of LinkedIn.

The most egregiously over-engineered solution I have ever been a part of.

How I felt after five years of being fully remote.

I got skill gapped but I think I learned something?

How I think candidates can leave less of the interview up to chance.

What I think about working longer hours.

I argue that the stigma around renting is unwarranted.

Turns out you can just visit dams, Water NSW actually encourages it!

Why Deputy wasn’t right for me, in the end.

My advice for writing human-readable code, even in the age of AI.

What to do if your legacy dependency only writes to file.

Which comment system should you use for your static site?

How we built our hackathon project with Anthropic Claude and AWS.

How I restored a 50 year old camera into working order.

My criticism of Ben White’s property management software Ailo, and how renters are the product, not the user.

A quick article about what I learned on avoiding unsightly reflections.

How I’ve customised Neovim to my personal taste.

Notes while thinking through concurrency problems.

A presentation I made at Deputy to explain why we might choose rebasing over merging.

The challenge of implementing bitwise arithmetic in a high-level language without bitwise abstractions.

Personal projects from my high school and early university years that generated my first programming income.