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2024

I visited New Zealand - Part 1
··9 mins
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.
My ThinkPad won't wake up
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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.
Project Decomposition
··8 mins
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
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If you care about it, make it fail the build.
A Simple Script Base
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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
··1 min
A simple function to create a QR code for a URL, so you can ‘send’ a link to your phone.
Bye-Bye GPG
··2 mins
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.
New Beginnings
·3 mins
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, github.io.