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Nick McHardy's blog, covering tech, games and whatever else that's interesting in the universe like vinyl, fusion jazz and random projects.
- Posts
- 238 from 1 Jan 2001 to 1 Mar 2026
- Posting
- monthly (8 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 8
2025 3
2023 2
2022 2
2021 25
- Being in the office
- Akio Morita and Leadership Culture
- Building a custom NAS in 2021
- Can you post-moderate architechure?
- Echinacea
- Potato - Kipfler
- Kaffir Lime
- Arum Lily
- 50 shades of asphalt
- So I'm a 'Creator Innovator', what does that mean when working with ideas?
- My site on a text-based browser
- Turning a classic CRT into a Smart TV
- My favourite YouTube channels right now
- On Robert Miles
- Scurvy Weed
- Spotted deadnettle
- Impatiens
- Crepe Myrtle
- Markdown to HTML Theme Test
- Eggplant
- Garlic
- Bird's Eye Chilli
- Interview Questions
- How Shigeru Miyamoto Inspires Architecture and Leadership in Me
- Oriental lily
2020 104
- Last post for 2020
- A question of scaling
- Dahlia (Dwarf)
- COVID: A Status Update
- Lemon
- Big Box PC Games
- My Web Routine
- Peace Lily
- Work from Home towns in NSW
- Sugar Plum
- Petunia (Red)
- Clivia
- Better compression with brotli encoding on AWS CloudFront
- A business supplies redirection scam
- Detective Conan: Episode One - The Great Detective Turned Small - Review
- Super Simple SEO Guide
- Petunia (Yellow)
- What if machine learning is ubiquitous as email?
- 2020 Goals, a Progress Update
- Gazania "Sunny Daze"
- Long-leaf Waxflower
- Pomegranate (Wonderful)
- Turmeric
- Long Live the Web
- Azalea (Red Poppy)
- Lavender
- Mint (Berries and cream)
- Ginger
- Cornflower
- Cauliflower
- Fuchsia
- Protea "Amy"
- Scrub Cherry
- Youngberry
- Chinotto
- Pigeon Pea
- Yesterday Today Tomorrow
- Rose (Double Delight)
- Persimmon (Non-astringent)
- Daffodil
- Freesia
- Sparaxis
- Geranium (Red)
- Kalanchoe
- Rose (Apricot)
- Rose (Papa Meilland)
- Azalea (Shiraz)
- Geranium (Scented leaf)
- New Section: Garden Diary
- Brussel Sprouts
- Yuzu A
- Yuzu B
- Vanilla Orchid
- Rainforest Plant
- Spring Onion
- Sage
- Broccoli (Purple)
- Pumpkin
- Palm Tree
- Mint (Common)
- Maidenhair fern
- Lemongrass
- Leek
- Wild pansy "Johnny Jump Up"
- Iris
- Deutzia
- Hydrangea
- Mandevilla (White)
- Chinese Lantern
- Cardamom
- Canna Lily (Red)
- Water plant in bath tub
- Basil
- Aloe Vera
- Aspidistra
- Geranium (Ivy leaf)
- Jade Plant
- Artichoke
- Dianthus 'Candy Floss'
- Japanese Spindle Tree
- Papyrus (Dwarf)
- Pink Rosemary
- Swamp Goodenia
- Taro
- Sweet Potato x3
- Crucifix Orchid
- Nectarine
- Avocado
- Water Lily
- Nasturtium
- Persian Chocolate
- Okra (Red)
- Garden Diary
- Yacón - Earth Apple
- Orchid
- Why the purple toasters?
- Learning About Leadership Episode 1
- Adding lazy loading for images in Hugo static site generator
- Google Home + Spotify + Screenshots = Mixtape
- Working through COVID-19
- How I became a Senior Digital Architect
- A new day, a new theme
- My goals for 2020
- 2019 A Year in Review
2019 20
- Typical journeys that we go on using a car
- A Small Business NBN Experience
- A Comparison of Electric Cars in Australia under $100k
- Thoughts on working the side hustle
- Why I have a blog
- A history of my corner of the web
- That time I wanted to host a video game music radio show
- Green Book - Movie Review
- On Happiness Road - Movie Review
- Intimate Strangers - Movie Review
- The Shawshank Redemption - Movie Review
- Extreme Job - A Movie Review
- My Favourite Project
- Them Dial-up Days
- Architecture update for Serverless CMS with AWS and Hugo
- LAN Party: a retrospective
- On being an Engineering Manager
- The resurgence of radio (for me)
- Mobile vs Desktop: State of my corner of the Internet
- Using Amazon Polly to automatically generate podcasts
2018 27
- The day I found Saowen.com had stolen my content
- Doing Products instead of Projects
- The Green is (almost) Back
- Sample
- Counting lines of code in Koi CMS
- Analytics as Code
- Using Amazon Rekognition to produce better alt tags
- The Humble MiniDisc
- Why I openly share my calendar across the whole org and you should too
- Ryuichi Sakamoto's Coda: A Review
- Why the Sega Dreamcast is the best console of all time
- How I manage a product backlog with my version of Kanban
- Serverless Koi CMS 1 Year Review
- Adventure Games: What's with all the clowns?
- Serverless CMS Deployment Using CircleCI
- Kids of today reacting to a classic Twin Famicom and CRT TV
- Stalking and Personal Marketing
- Serverless and lambda: what to do when you run out of disk space
- Common website vulnerability scans found in logs
- Adjusting the solution when S3 doesn't quite fit the bill
- Beneath a Steel Sky Review
- How much does it cost to run a serverless CMS on AWS?
- Fusion Delusion
- Hanging up the Fusion Delusion mic one last time
- Building a serverless CMS using AWS and Hugo
- Laser Soul Track of the Week
- Books that I've helped publish
2017 1
2016 3
2015 10
- Fusion Jazz - what's it all about anyway?
- My thoughts about AWS API Gateway working with AWS Lambda
- I'm on a mission to find out if software architecture can be lean and agile
- In case you were listening
- Nathan's secret magic synth scale
- The obsession with the letter 'X'
- Renoise 3.0 and Focusrite Scarlett 18i8
- Tips for someone new to Community Radio
- 16 Years in the Industry
- Observations of two months of Mac
2014 10
- Things to consider when comparing houses and property
- When Scrum/Agile/XP works your own way
- My quick music notation system that needs an attractive name
- Latest project - Hawkesbury History, People and Places
- Pnau's Sambanova was re-released, but is there a difference?
- Real estate, it's another language
- Counterfeit Australian Money - Fake $10 Note
- The 'noindex' Day
- Why radio has got it right (and TV hasn't)
- What's the story, morning radio?