Coffee weirdo. Insufferable Linux person. Software Engineer....
Junited is a little blog-loving adventure where the blogging community gets together to share posts they enjoy and discover new bloggers along the way. Inspired by Robert Birming 's Junited post, here's my little list. The idea is that I will update this periodically over the month of June as I come across cool blogs I think you should read. :)…
I think the first software tool I ever wrote was a scraper for webcomics. It was terrible. I wrote it in C# using Windows Forms in like 2008. But, crucially for me, it scratched the very specific itch that I felt. Since then, I've written all sorts of bits and pieces throughout the years to solve this problem or that. Make the workflow work for you I wrote my RSS reader bottomfeeder because I had…
I am someone who enjoys the craft of programming. I do it for a living. I do it most days as a creative outlet. I spend a lot of my downtime thinking about it. I think computers are neat, y'know? You might have heard about this new AI fad that's taking over the industry, I certainly have. My workplace bought everybody Cursor licenses and told us we need to use it so I gave it a shot and it's was…
Come with me on a journey. It's 2023. Your team has recently released a major update and it's been a rocky launch. The last few days have been a lot of running and fighting fires. You're knackered. You come to work and today, you're the first person in. Time to start trying to figure out what is going on with that database table that's showing some weird data. You log in to SQL Studio Management…
Last Year Last year, my brother in law, Chris and I entered all of the Trail Running SA Short length races. In October, it was time for the Mt Bold 10km race. Just before the race rolled around I came down with a cold, having missed a previous race in August due to COVID-19, I decided to push through. It was an awful time. My lung capacity was shot and by 7km I just wanted to call it a day and go…
This review contains spoilers for a 40-year-old book. Hardwired is a pulpy 1986 Cyberpunk novel written by Walter Jon Williams. It follows Cowboy, an ex-pilot turned smuggler, and Sarah, a cyborg assassin. In the Hardwired universe, the Orbital Corporations have asserted control over much of the Earth leaving Cowboy and the other "Panzerboys" smuggling black market goods across the fragmented…
Old man reminisces about the past I love RSS. In my opinion, it's one of the best parts of the open web. For those reading who were born this century, an RSS feed is a list of all available posts on a website. That's it. If you like my blog, you just slap the link to the RSS feed into your feed reader and boom - everything I write appears in your feed reader in chronological order! The Scourge of…