Let's Make Electronics Makers Open Source Their Apps
I'm looking forward to my new headphones becoming unsupported!
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Why I'm Not Using LLM Coding Tools
Was recently asked how much we use AI coding assistants in our work. and when asked why the answer was zero I didn't have a great answer on the spot.
Conspiracy Nation
Just finished reading Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson's Conspiracy Nation. The book takes a tour through Australia's unique blend of conspiracy theories, how they spread, and how the lines between unique theories get blurred. I don't like how Australia seems to import every culture
Universal Links opening the Flutter app AND a web browser?
💡 This article describes a weird problem our customers experienced with our mobile app. It discusses Flutter , Google's mobile app framework, and app_links , a Flutter package that handles deep linking. We had an odd customer support ticket last week. When opening CareApp from an email notification, they
How I, someone who writes about obscure technical things, will improve my writing for you, a beginner
There's a post that's been doing the rounds that's worth a read: How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie’s blog “Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I
She worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department
The other Orwellean issue we're facing is the replacement of human creativity with machines...
Syncing Ory Kratos Identities with Other Systems
Today we are going to look at two ways of synchronising identities from Ory Kratos with another system. This can be accomplished using Kratos's webhooks functionality, but the process is not obvious. I lurk a bit in Ory's community Slack and this is one of the
Douglas Adams - The Salmon of Doubt
I haven't read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , and I'm about 20 years late to the party for reading The Salmon of Doubt. I think Douglas Adams and I would have seen fairly eye to eye on most tech things, though he was obviously more of
Relaxing Ory Kratos's password breach check
Ory Kratos checks proposed passwords agains haveibeenpwned. In this post, we get Kratos to relax, just a little bit, to make passwords usable again.
Back in a bit
I'm migrating my website to Ghost. While static site generators like Gatsby are great, I really wanted comments back, and really like the more casual nature of just typing into a web page. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an easy way to mass migrate Gatsby
Generating wordclouds from massive PDF libraries
My friend Dani posed an interesting question on Twitter yesterday: Research pals, esp. those that use #zotero - do you know if there is a way I can visualise data from my library, e.g. word clouds? Paperplanes plugin no longer exists :( what I'd really like to do
Improving Flutter's iOS build times on CI
We shave 12 minutes off our mobile app build pipeline.
Remote Redux Debugging in Flutter
I really like Flutter, and I like using Redux when building mobile apps. There’s a great Redux implementation for Dart and Flutter, and a time travel capable debug store. The Javascript world is spoilt with the fantastic Redux DevTools plugin. It allows you to inspect actions and application
We The Unseen
I worked for South Australia’s youth circus organisation Cirkidz on their production We The Unseen . Using the same 3D projection mapping technology I developed at UniSA and expanding from the work I did with Half Real, we built several interactive projection based special effects to compliment the performance.
Syntho: A Web Audio Synthesizer
Syntho is a Korg Volca Bass inspired synthesizer I created using Javascript and the new web-audio API.