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A senior engineer for founders who need one in the room — and on the keyboard. Fractional CTO, architecture reviews, and hands-on rescue for non-technical and VC-backed founders.

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32 from 13 Sep 2009 to 15 Apr 2026
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2026 6

  1. Testing OpenGraph on localhost from the CLI before you go public
  2. Applying "Programming Without Pointers" to an mbox indexer using Zig
  3. Announcing Pixels: Disposable Linux Containers for AI Coding Agents
  4. Claude voice mode is still a joke in 2026
  5. My thoughts on Gas Town after 10,000 hours of Claude Code
  6. My Projects in 2025

2025 6

  1. Give your agentic processes a name
  2. Why I'm Spoiled By Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework)
  3. A tool to pick the best time to post to Hacker News I made using Claude
  4. Automate compile_flags for C/C++ projects on the Zig build system
  5. Adventures in Game Development
  6. A Fresh Start: Moving My Blog to the Edge

2024 1

  1. 'Polygon Peril' Prototype video game available to play now

2023 4

  1. How to Cherry-Pick a Git Commit from a Fork
  2. React Behavioural Props
  3. Get 3D look rotations in 2D with Godot 4
  4. UNRECORD: Is this game footage real or fake?

2021 1

  1. Migrating from Styled Components to Emotion

2018 1

  1. How To Add JavaScript Bundling To An Existing MVC Project

2016 1

  1. Git: Delete Merged/Deleted Branches

2015 2

  1. Getting Started With Meteor and React
  2. How To Build The Native Docker Client On Windows

2013 2

  1. University (Upending My Life) and Some History
  2. Xbox Media Centre with Raspberry Pi

2012 4

  1. String.Trim vs Regex.Replace
  2. Sublime Text - A Text Editor For Programmers - Part 1 - Package Control
  3. Update All Hg Repositories Using Powershell
  4. 28 Hour Day

2011 1

  1. Stack Overflow DevDays 2011 - Sydney

2010 1

  1. Serious Sam HD – Kleer Skeleton Surfing

2009 2

  1. Image Caching for a WPF Desktop Application
  2. HOWTO Query MSSQL And Send HTML Email Using Powershell