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The year was 2016, I had been presenting Fusion Delusion on Eastside Radio for 5 years and it was time to try something new.

This is my fourth installment of movie reviews whilst travelling to and from Europe.

For other movie reviews, check out posts tagged with film.

This is my third installment of movie reviews whilst travelling to and from Europe.

To continue my series of film-reviews-whilst-on-a-plane, here’s the latest installment.

Recently I got back from my first trip to Europe, which turned out to be everything I thought it would be.

You know what, blogs like this one got me thinking.

Times were easier back then.

It’s been a year since I initially wrote about Building a serverless CMS using AWS and Hugo and I figured it was probably a good time to provide an update on the architecture for Koi CMS, a serverless CMS.

Back in the day, I used to attend a fair amount of LAN parties.

I’ve been acting in the role of Engineering Manager for 6 months now, so it’s a good time to review how things are going.

This is a story about the resurgence of radio in my life, at a time when everyone else has probably moved on.

I’ve noticed a general trend towards more mobile users, but I think it would be good to quantify this.

The tl;dr Using AWS Polly to read my articles and generate audio “podcasts” results in an average listening experience.

Recently, I wrote an article about Analytics as Code, which was my way of attempting to apply “Infrastructure-as-code” to something new.

Recently I’ve been involved in managing several teams who are making their move from running as project teams to product teams.

Over 15 years ago in 2002, I bought the domain nisch.org and commenced developing a PHP-based blog with photos and widgety things.

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My friend @boyter has written a lot about counting lines of code, so I thought I’d have a stab at running his fantastically fast source code counter “Sloc, Cloc and Code” scc over the Koi CMS codebase to see what it thinks.

This is a partially-baked idea, so be warned.

I haven’t had a tech post for a while so I figured it was about time I discussed one of many AWS services available today: Amazon Rekognition.

Ah, the humble little disc in a hard shell known as a MiniDisc.

I’ve spent more than a decade working in large organisations across a variety of roles with an open calendar, so here are my thoughts on why I did it and why I think everyone else should give it a try, too.

Recently, Cynthia and I had the pleasure of watching a film called Coda which showcases more recent musical endeavours of Ryuichi Sakamoto and the very personal impact of dealing with the news of cancer.

Getting back into the “not-so-serious” blog series, here are my thoughts on why the Sega Dreamcast is the best video game console of all time.

I’ve written a bit about the technical side of building a serverless CMS product called Koi CMS, but I thought it might be nice to talk about the other side of things: the side that involves Sharpies and Post-It® Notes.

So I was thinking the other day, how long have I been working on Koi CMS?

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The thought struck me tonight: there is a bit of a thing having clowns in adventure games.

Recently I’ve blogged a few times about building a serverless CMS using Hugo and AWS tech, but I haven’t talked at all about deploying it yet.

So I finally got around to taking my Twin Famicom for a drive to my parents’ place.

Or… why I have a website I thought it might be an idea to write a little bit about my recent experience with recruiting.

tl;dr Lambda has 512MB of space to play with in /tmp/, which is shared across multiple invocations of the same function, which makes it difficult to manage.

Here’s a list of links that I think you should check out.

This is an archive of all blogs on this site with the latest at the top.

The other day I had a look around some website traffic logs and I found a lot of references to the following files.

So it turns out using S3 as a data store and pseudo-query engine isn’t all that crash hot.

I’ve been writing a lot of serious posts of late, so I thought it was time to break things up a little bit.

How much exactly?

This page is now an archive as I turned off the mic for the last time during February 2018 - that’s 7 years of on-air Fusion Jazz madness.

The Fusion Delusion What?

So lately I’ve been keeping myself busy by developing my own CMS.

Back when I used to host a radio show on East Side Radio, I’d occasionally dip outside the world of Fusion Jazz and instead play some slick beats from the legends of 80s synth.

So in my spare time I help publish books, particularly ones about History in the Hawkesbury (NSW Australia) region.

My name is Nick McHardy and this site is my personal blog, covering technology, games and whatever else I find interesting in the universe.

So I figured I’d start to upgrade my home network and replace my aging Cisco SRP527W, which seems to be getting pretty flaky these days on the old WiFi.

A colleague recently blogged on our internal blog system about an article describing how the BBC is building personalised media “remixes” for audiences.

The ABC has launched two blogs this week, which is a great move towards showcasing some of the technology behind Australia’s largest public broadcaster.

It’s been a little while since I’ve blogged.

Recently, one of my friends asked me for some decent fusion jazz songs to sample and understand what fusion jazz is all about.