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Ash Kyd's blog
Australian in Europe (no longer). Webdev, sometimes speaker, gamedev, vlogger. Click here for the good stuff. 🏳️🌈
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Friday
I am exhausted today. Late night for queer tech drinks, then an early start to let the Cockroach Men in. They came an hour and a half late because they had my number wrong and couldn’t get into the complex; the dude was overwhelmed and looked like he was going to burst into tears. Later, … Continue reading “Friday”
QR Code creator
You can create normal things like links or contact cards, but also map locations that open in your maps app, phone numbers, calendar invites and even wifi autoconnect prompts.
Fit a MapLibre 3d globe to the available screen size
It’s not easy being a developer asked to calculate zoom levels on a 3d globe using the web mercator projection. So let’s ask the robots.
Dealing with Missing Glyphs in MapLibre
It’s not supposed to look like that?! Why the heck is that island in the pacific called SMOA? A technical deep dive.
How good is cheesy rice tho
I’ve been loving my rice cooker. Between that and the air fryer it makes it super easy to prepare work-from-home lunches without having to do much of anything at all. It’s a little Cuckoo 6-cup pressure rice cooker, which is the perfect size for me. And, look, probably the perfect size for anyone unless you … Continue reading “How good is cheesy rice tho”
A chain of things that went wrong which I fixed with some help from my friends
My place is dark, so I do really like having my lamps and lights come alive in the morning and turn off at night. It’s kind of a SAD lamp situation. I also have a bunch of indoor plants and a fish tank that are only alive because of these automations, so there’s really no going back now.
How to type GeoJSON objects with custom properties in TS/JS
Just a quick note because I found this useful and the @types/geojson docs aren’t especially verbose.
The curious case of the complimentary car chargers
The Brisbane convention centre has cheap parking and free car charging. For $16 in parking I can fill my car up with as much juice as I like, which is a pretty good deal, as long as I remember to do it.
Announcing Alchemize v3 — faster, smarter, and sleeker than ever
Alchemize is a lightweight tool to minify and pretty-print your code snippets from around the web. v3 is now available with a refreshed interface and support for modern JS & CSS features.
What I’m doing for bookmarks now that Pocket is dead
Pocket was a pretty great little app. It let you save articles, read them later, tag them etc. I used it because it was integrated with my Kobo ebook reader, so I could save stories and read them on that. But then Mozilla unceremoniously killed it. So now what?
Announcing Deep Time – an epic story more than 65,000 years in the making
On Sunday we launched the project we’ve been working on for the last little while, Deep Time. It’s an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.
Another construction site
I was sure everything would work. I had a little bit of mastodon maintenance to do out of hours, so I stayed up, kicked it off at midnight, and went to bed at half past twelve. I set my alarm for 0830 and this would have been fine but for the machinery on the street … Continue reading “Another construction site”
Pain II – the nerve root injection
It took maybe six 6 or 7 trips into the CT before he was satisfied. He injected a contrast dye and sent me back in one last time, apparently to highlight the nerves and make sure the needle wasn’t going to smash them. Then the scary part began.
Pain.
Shirley Manson found God in tramadol, but all I got was this lousy pain in the butt. I’ve always had issues with my leg, whenever I’ve done weight training or intense cycling. If I don’t do enough preventative stretching, or sometimes even if I do, the muscles in my butt tighten up and start causing … Continue reading “Pain.”