I visited New Zealand - Part 1
I know you shouldn’t get swept away by the small snippet you see of a county when you go on holiday, but I did. New Zealand stole my heart and I wish I coul...
This site serves as more of a collection of bookmarks/reminders for me than anything useful for others.
Recent posts
My ThinkPad won’t wake up
Last week I upgraded my ever-reliable Lenovo x260 ThinkPad to Ubuntu 24.04.
Project Decomposition
As an architect, I frequently assist software engineers in breaking down project scope into manageable chunks. Here is one of the techniques I use.
One Rule to Build Them All
Every business is different, every codebase has debt that needs to be worked around. Any given project has different success criteria (budget vs. cost vs. sc...
A Simple Script Base
Sometimes you just need a script that takes arguments. This is a simple script which will call different functions based on the first argument from the user.
Simple QR Code Command
Sometimes you need to open a URL on your phone that you found on your company laptop but there’s no simple way to send it between the two devices. This simpl...
Bye-Bye GPG
So I have been using GPG to sign my Git commits for about 5 years now and every year, when my keys expire, it’s a nightmare to renew the keys for another yea...
New Beginnings
I’ve been rocking the same website since 2013. I created it on the 25th of April 2013 when I heard that GitHub had moved GitHub Pages to a dedicated domain, ...