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A little soapbox for me to stand on and rant from.

Software / engineering practiceGame developmentDevOps / SRE / infrastructure

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214 from 30 Jul 2006 to 25 Jul 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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2026 2

  1. NPKILL - nuke old node_modules and .venv directories to free up disk space
  2. Minimal devcontainer with Codex for messing around with AI stuff

2021 1

  1. Using Docker to run Manim in Jupyter notebooks

2020 1

  1. Using Docker to run Jupyter notebooks

2016 3

  1. Right-sizing User Stories
  2. Docker: Cleaning up after yourself
  3. Google IO 2016 Highlights

2015 11

  1. The next two episodes in my creating a 2D game with Unity tutorial
  2. Creating a 2D game using Unity
  3. Lego Mindstorms Colour Sorting Machine
  4. How to create a private key for signing Android apps
  5. Creating an abstract desktop wallpaper in Blender
  6. Writing a game using PICO-8 – Part 2
  7. Writing a game using PICO-8 – Part 1
  8. Another interview
  9. Simple script to monitor Postfix
  10. Procedural content generation: Creating a universe
  11. Tutorial: Creating your first Unity Android App [2015 Update]

2014 32

  1. Procedural content generation: L-Systems
  2. Hacking Interview on Radio Hauraki
  3. Project Frankensapien – Part 1
  4. Random pic: Morning Moon
  5. Tech Tip: Start a simple web server
  6. Y is for YouTube facts and figures
  7. Z is for Zentraedi
  8. U is for Unity
  9. V is for Velocity
  10. W is for White Rabbit
  11. X is for lots of things
  12. T is for Taxes (and delayed blog posts)
  13. S is for Strange conversations
  14. Q is for ???
  15. R is for Role Playing Games
  16. P is for Productivity in New Zealand
  17. O is for Open Source I use (and create)
  18. N is for Ni
  19. M is for Monkey – the evilest testing tool around
  20. L is for Logo and wee little turtles
  21. K is for Kinect Fusion & 3D selfies
  22. J is for Jasper – control anything with your voice
  23. I is for Insel – an fantasy setting I’m working on
  24. H is for Hosted network
  25. G is for Games I own
  26. F is for Feature Driven Development
  27. E is for Elastic band contraption
  28. D is for DNS
  29. C is for Code
  30. B is for Blender
  31. A is for Apathy
  32. Tech Tip: Change AngularJS template delimiters

2013 1

  1. A is for Artemis

2012 9

  1. Word War III – Dev Diary – 05: The app meets real players
  2. Word War III – Dev Diary – 04: Tween you and me
  3. Word War III – Dev Diary – 03: Some Structure
  4. Word War III – Dev Diary – 02: Word Smithing
  5. Word War III – Dev Diary – 01: Getting started
  6. Did Microsoft just kill Flash? IE10 won’t run Flash unless your site is on a Microsoft whitelist!
  7. My Romo has arrived
  8. Tutorial: Creating your first Unity Android App
  9. Building a modern web app, some learnings

2011 12

  1. Help Stop SOPA
  2. AnimfxNZ 2011 – day 3
  3. AnimfxNZ 2011 – day 2
  4. AnimfxNZ 2011 – day 1
  5. The Food Bill
  6. (Un)happy Skynet day !
  7. Response to my Auckland Train Signage rant
  8. Ask Gremlin…
  9. Auckland Train Signage FAIL
  10. Android Tips: Using a live wallpaper as your app’s background
  11. What I did last week – 15 Feb 2011
  12. Things I did last week – 4 Jan 2011

2010 18

  1. How Anonymous is attacking Mastercard et al.
  2. 4 little words
  3. Android Tips: Generating a coverage report for your unit tests
  4. Android Tips: The emulator
  5. MeterRec released
  6. If Star Trek’s computers were real…
  7. Auckland bus stops in Google Earth
  8. Playlist dumper for iTunes
  9. Fun with Auckland bus data
  10. The Amen Break
  11. Jumbler, my first flash game
  12. The viral spread of my privacy check app for Facebook
  13. They’re baaack! Revenge of the blobs
  14. New theme is a go
  15. Odd attractions
  16. YouTube drops IE6 support
  17. Google’s timetable for dropping IE6
  18. Paper ship markers for Rogue Trader

2009 52

  1. Tip: Creating easy to remember passwords
  2. Configuring a test SSL certificate for Jboss
  3. Inside Google Wave
  4. Ok I’ve done it now…
  5. Vodafone NZ settings for Android phones
  6. SvnViz 1.0.0 Released
  7. Expose /var/www using Samba
  8. Cross-browser testing and virtualization
  9. Facebook: Keeping things between friends
  10. 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet
  11. ScanPaste – My first app released to the Android Market
  12. Its going to get bumpy
  13. Review: Balsamiq Mockups
  14. The Contact Protocol & my first RFC
  15. Balsamiq Mockups is very cool
  16. The downfall of Agile Hitler
  17. All that SPARQLs on the web
  18. mPass article on NZ Herald
  19. WordPress iPhone app
  20. Its business time for Twitter
  21. New blog template
  22. Section 92a scrapped !
  23. Hiding from Google Ads
  24. Kutiman “found music”
  25. Whoosh goes 2009 DD45
  26. mPass for iPhone is live!
  27. Auditorium – awesome flash game
  28. Section 92 Delayed ?
  29. How we landed up with Section 92a
  30. Labour and National on Section 92a
  31. Section 92a Cartoons
  32. Android G2 is on its way
  33. Sorry for the interruption
  34. What you need to know about the new copyright laws
  35. I love the web
  36. Party like its 1234567890
  37. The top 25 open source projects
  38. How creativity is being strangled by the law
  39. Its all about clarity
  40. Videos of US Airways Flight 1549 landing in Hudson river
  41. World’s first deep sea web cam
  42. Search the web, destroy the planet
  43. “9” looks very cool.
  44. More on section 92
  45. Stop section 92
  46. The history of the Internet
  47. Wasps in speakers
  48. Crashed Ice, very cool
  49. Review: Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
  50. Review: Graceling by Kristin Cashore
  51. Review: Rambo
  52. Review: Starship Troopers 3: Marauder

2008 46

  1. My first t-shirt
  2. Happy holidays from Air New Zealand
  3. XUL the “forgotten” RIA technology
  4. I made a light tent
  5. Google’s Friend Connect
  6. How to be an architect
  7. Puppy Cam
  8. What the last 12 presidents did in their first 100 days
  9. Obama’s Victory Speech
  10. mPass is live !
  11. Obama using in-game ads
  12. Google gets into games and watches you from space
  13. Who Caused the Economic Crisis?
  14. Because its funny…
  15. Broken daylight savings on Nokia phones
  16. Google Timeline – the last 10 years
  17. G1 the first Google Android released
  18. Android getting ready for launch
  19. Google launches new browser
  20. Oops the Arctic is now an island
  21. Its slime mould, Jim !
  22. Help ! Something weird is growing on my lawn
  23. Bubbles! presentation
  24. Bubbles! now uses Google App Engine
  25. Windows crashes during Olympics opening ceremony
  26. OMG Wargames is 25 Years old !
  27. Does Virgin get the iPhone? Maybe…
  28. Web 2.0 Political Party
  29. Upgrading to 2.6
  30. iPhone 2.0 – First Impressions
  31. Get your iPhone now ! Only $6000
  32. Site may be down for a wee while
  33. Got my ugly mug in the press
  34. Birthday Goodies
  35. Bubbles! was in the top 25%
  36. Garden of devastation
  37. Bubbles! didn’t make it
  38. Stuttering sound on Ubuntu 8.04
  39. Ubuntu 8.04 upgrade fun
  40. Bubbles! – My Google Android Developer Challenge Entry
  41. The origins of the peace sign
  42. NOTCOT.org cool design site
  43. The Official grabaseat blog
  44. Free Sci-fi Books
  45. My new favourite power tool… the water blaster
  46. whatistheinternet.info

2007 19

  1. New theme for Summer
  2. BOL0X & B1G N0B
  3. We won TUANZ !
  4. I’m doing Movember
  5. Finalists in TUANZ Business Internet Awards 2007
  6. 200 litres of paint and 700 hours later….
  7. SIGGRAPH 2007 Vid
  8. Facebook:Do you know who is watching you?
  9. SIGGRAPH is over :(
  10. I’m at SIGGRPAH
  11. ticktock as a Google Gadget
  12. ticktock – my first Facebook app
  13. My first YouTube video
  14. Using JSON for Java and PHP interop
  15. My new blog
  16. Auckland Traffic Cams
  17. GMail and Google Maps on your phone !
  18. An Inconvenient Truth
  19. Workrave

2006 7

  1. Sudo and Squiggly Startup Screen
  2. Ubuntu – The initial install
  3. Serenity the Movie
  4. King Kong
  5. Texture Maps of Earth, Moon, Mars and Venus
  6. .ICO Plugin for Photoshop
  7. WinMorph and Wink