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Michael Gale | Front-end developer, Melbourne, Australia

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Weeknotes of old

Wait, from when!?

Deftones

Rod Laver Arena, May 2026

How to find things from the before times

Aka; I made a browser extension

Setting up a RAID-5 array on Bazzite

Redundant Array of Independent Dilemmas

Keeping Proton Pass up to date on Bazzite

Solving forgettable update process

My top 10 albums of 2025

Upon the arrogant presumption that I can still count to ten

My favourite tool

My true daily driver.

Switching from LineageOS to GrapheneOS

TIL: You can backup on one and restore it to the other

Weeknotes: 2025-11-26

Musings for the end of November 2025

Testing Webmentions

A test post to verify the complete POSSE workflow

Weeknotes: 2025-11-06

Stuff what I gone and done

The "does not use" page

Don't use, won't use.

My mantras

Ideas I've stolen from people who are more intelligent than I am

Become a 10x developer of house chores

Or; turning a laundry system into a program to measure its efficiency.

Sleeping bag

Photo by Nolan Issac on Unsplash I don’t know who previously owned my sleeping bag. I don’t know who ashed their cigarette onto it and burned little holes - where the plastic or vinyl or whatever it’s made of started to bubble and harden, scratching at my skin while I lay awake staring into the darkness while my eyes adjust and try to make out the ceiling. I don’t know who chose it - a bright…

Photography things on Linux

Or; how to enable auto-advance on rejection in darktable

The art of slow-switching

Name it to tame it

Small acts of rebellion to give you back a sense of control

Collation of suggestions from lovely Mastodon people

Week notes: 2025-03-22

A bunch of stuff from recent weeks because I can

Drupal South 2025

Notes from the Drupal South conference in Melbourne

Monorepos are cool, actually

A story about deployment, automation and self-hosting

Naming computers after Zelda characters

Or; when is a "home network" a "home lab"?

A diorama for a miniature painting competition

Church ruins in the 41st Millennium

I Am The Algorithm

fedi be like

Big list of cool things to do and try

50 ways to be cool and do and try things

Releasing an album on floppy disk (Part 2)

Er, Electric Boogaloo!

Releasing an album on floppy disk (Part 1)

Dooms-disk preppin'

RIP notes feature

Sunsetting a shortlived idea 🌇

Using macOS keyboard commands on PopOS

Kinto.sh quick guide

Supporting lynx browser

The SSR stress test

Every Alterations

Buy my first album, please.

A semantic versioning system for music production

Final_final _mix v2 (rough).wav

Tasmania travel diary

A photo tour of our trip to Tasmania in April, 2024.

Using a Github repo as an image bucket

A Nuxt 3 / Nitro / Github API experiment

Nuxt content admonitions

AKA callouts, shoutouts, info boxes - in MDC.

Just January things

Weird in-between time of year, continued.

Changelog: v3.5.52+

Website upgrades, December, 2023

The weird, in-between time of year

AKA, The Void, AKA, a show about nothing.

A script to scaffold a new blog post

Solving forgettable front-matter

Mac to Linux and back to Mac again

Tips for making the transition from macOS to GNU/Linux a little easier.

Prioritising access

Fixing access issues before including new features

How I use Obsidian

My complete workflow, from daily notes to checklists and automated self-care.

Late-July Mini-Update

Desperately trying to write a new post before August

Exploring Nuxt Layers

Chia, chia, chia!

Elk's cool border-radius trick

Squircle Squad!

Welcome back!

It's been a harrowing few years, but here I am, I guess

Late-October Mini-Update

Hey check out all this dumb sh*t I've been doing

It's Been a Little While

Keeping up appearances...

First Week of Maths

The first couple weeks of my maths bridging course

Back to School

How much will I suck at maths before census?