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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

My travel posts lacked visual context, so I added SVG maps to them.

Our tour begins, showcasing the magic behind the movies, New Zealand culture, and history.

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 could move there.

Last week I upgraded my ever-reliable Lenovo x260 ThinkPad to Ubuntu 24.04, and it would no longer wake up from a suspend state.

As an architect, I frequently assist software engineers in breaking down project scope into manageable chunks. Here is one of the techniques I use.

If you care about it, make it fail the build.

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.

A simple function to create a QR code for a URL, so you can ‘send’ a link to your phone.

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 year. Here’s how to set up SSH signing keys.