Far Horizons — Writing

I spent an evening with sintra.ai after it appeared in my Instagram ads.

A simple blueprint for turning stakeholder interviews into a measurable pilot without adding a CMS, ticket queue, or committee.

My Railscamp memories are a bit of a blur, but there's one that's stuck with me over the years.

I generate my blog with Jekyll.

I was on the wrong side, apparently, of the game Ingress from Niantic.

Reflections on a Startup Misstep: A Decade of Perspective As I look back on my career journey over the past decade, one experience stands out as a pivotal learning moment - my brief tenure at a hyped-up startup that ultimately taught me more about what not

That Time I Accidentally Terminated 600 Instances Otherwise known as "The Zombie Apocalypse" I was reflecting the other day after coming across yet another post on /r/cscareerquestions from a user fretting about potentially getting fired for a mistake they

Migrating from Plausible to Umami for Web Analytics We've recently shifted from using Plausible to Umami for our web analytics.

A recent interaction with the creator of SingleFile, a Firefox extension I often use, on Hacker News led me to reflect on its role in my knowledge workflow.

Enhancing Note Visuals with Obsidian Image Layouts As an enthusiast of note-taking and knowledge management, I'm pleased to share a new addition to the Obsidian ecosystem - the Obsidian Image Layouts plugin.

My Digital Nomad Carry (Note: I've written this over quite a period of time, never quite getting to publish it.

The Crumpler Light Delight Messenger!

Inspiration from near-term Sci-Fi One of the places that I like to find inspiration is from novels.

In one of my many visits to the self-service laundry I started wondering how much it would cost to setup and run one.

For a variety of reasons I dual-boot Mac OS and Windows 10.

I've been meaning to explored Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs for almost a year now.

The quality of coworking memberships and short term office space varies.

In April, I decided to contact Spaces and suspend my coworking membership.

Healthcare in Estonia for Digital Nomads 2020 is anything but a normal year, and if you had told me in January that I would be spending several months in Estonia, I would have told you that there were places that I wanted to explore far more than Estonia.

Xmas is fast approaching again and it's been on my mind to share a few of the things that I have found valuable as a Digital Nomad and Indie Hacker.

Filing another report under hard to google errors, which seems to be my primary reason for posting on this blog these days.

One of the most important things about the indie maker community in general is that they have a willingness to explore and understand how we go about making products and providing value.

As indie makers, analyzing the products that we’re making is a critical part of our product development process.

Reflections after Two Months of being a Digital Nomad It's a little over two months now since I packed my bags and decided to become a Digital Nomad.

Minus One Week I must be crazy.

React Native has been a non-stop whirlwind of obscure error messages.

After switching to the Google Pixel, I've found myself using 'Ok Google' more and more.

Not the first VR headset I've found in a retailer here, KMart has had both an incredibly dodgy headset and also the somewhat cooler viewmaster, but it's interesting to see Officeworks dedicating some space to VR headsets.

Another great session at SXSW.

Yet another brain dump.

Recently visited Cockatoo Island in Sydney for the 20th Annual Biennale.

Yet another of my 'obscure error message' posts: After upgrading an old Rails app from 3.2.x to 4.0.x I started getting a really weird error.

In the leadup to our last hack day at REA I acquired a RepRap Prusa i3 kit from Aliexpress because one of the teams indicated a desire to build one from scratch.

I visited the inaugural Future Assembly this weekend.

I visited Valve in Seattle after Oculus Connect 2.

So many thoughts about Oculus Connect 2.

One of the things that I've been doing sporadically over the last couple of years is dabbling in Automated Trading.

Slightly simpler than the AREC stand, however still cool.

I should probably be ashamed that my top thing to do in any city is find the nerd spots.

AREC is the largest Real Estate conference in Australia.

Google Glass taught me that Smart glasses can be just as cool as VR.

Departing from all the VR I've been working on recently, we attended News Foundry this week in Sydney.

I have been working on getting Matterport integrated into the realestate.com.au listings.

It seems we always have a new toy to play with.

Every so often I come across an exception that doesn't turn up good search results as a solution.

This will be my second year documenting things that I want to do this year and giving myself a mark on the results.

Wow!

In my first hack day since returning to REA, we formed a team around sharing a story of a lady made homeless by domestic abuse using Virtual Reality.

I really should have posted more but I'm having trouble balancing experiencing vs documenting.

My visit to the US just keeps getting more and more surreal.