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This post is a quick TIL* (sidenote: “Today I Learned”) for posterity.

Leaving logistical plans until the last minute leaves you with fewer decisions to make, fewer options to compare, and more importantly, more time to enjoy yourself.

If you use Discord on Linux, and installed via a .deb, you might have seen this annoying pop up every time you start Discord: This seems like Discord requires you to upgrade before you can start the client, but that’s not the case.

I didn’t write a single post on this blog in 2023.

What is split DNS?

Last month I was lucky enough to hop on a call with Oliver Schöndorfer.

Flying I opted to pay a fraction more to enjoy some extra legroom.

I recently installed Tailscale on my Umbrel node, so I can access it remotely without going via Tor, because Tor is so slow.

I’ve made a few changes to this blog’s theme over the last few weeks, and I thought it would be nice to summarise them in a post.

This is post number 13 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 12 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 11 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 10 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 9 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 8 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 7 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 6 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 5 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 4 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 3 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 2 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

This is post number 1 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge.

Webmentions is a relatively standard for federating comments and mentions across websites.

I’ve made a few tweaks to my blog theme, so it now adapts to changes to the macOS system theme.

Download Kotlin.tmLanguage from here Open Sublime Merge, click Preferences -> Browse Packages Create a folder called Kotlin and place Kotlin.tmLanguage within the folder Restart Sublime Merge and enjoy!

Despite using FZF with Neovim for a few years, I’ve only recently found out about :Ag which lets you perform searches across your folders and files.

This was originally posted on Medium.

This was originally posted on Medium.

I use GPG verification for most of my commits so that people know that it’s really me (don’t worry, I debate the difference between authentication and identification with friends and coworkers all the time).

One weird trick to reduce build time!

Earlier this year (06/05 to 07/05), Nathan Malishev, Josh Parnham, Daniel Sykes-Turner, and I attended the Facebook Melbourne Hackathon — located in Facebook’s beautiful, and brand new, Melbourne office.

Over the past couple of months I’ve received numerous messages asking me how I’ve made this website respond to cURL requests with JSON (a little like JSON Resumé).

Zeit is a great little company that aims to “Make Cloud Computing as Easy and Accessible as Mobile computing”, and they’re doing that just with their relatively new service, Now.

Bréf: where I try to explain something briefly.

I have a pretty terrible habit of buying new apps very frequently.

Today, I acquired a new domain name.

Surprisingly, I spend a lot of money on subscriptions every year.

What we’re going to be doing Setting up a subdomain Setting up Amazon S3 Setting up: Preliminary Setup ShareX (Windows) DropShare (Mac) Setting up Amazon S3 If you already have an S3 Bucket created/setup, skip this section.

I always find writing like walking up an endless flight of stairs and, as you reach the thousandth stair, using every ounce of energy to pull at your legs to move up just one more stair.

What is Monash Ninja?

Email has always been something that I’ve needed to keep track, something that since in the back of my mind and something that I feel like I’m always worrying about.

UNIHACK Melbourne is a Melbourne-based hackathon that was run last weekend (August 8/9) and is open to all university and TAFE students in Victoria.

Update 13/08/15 I’ve been getting a few emails asking for my configuration files so I’ve uploaded them: weechat.conf, irc.conf (temporarily unavailable).

In my final year of schooling, I worked out how I could bypass my school’s proxy.

I’ve been working on a pretty big project on Github with a couple of developers.

Disclaimer: this is old and doesn’t work anymore, but I’m going to leave it up here for posterity.

Last night I made a blog post on how to screen record.

I’ve just tried it out and it is absolutely awesome!