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Te Ara Tupua opened on 16 May. Using two existing sensors at the path's southern entry, here's what the first week looks like — and what the wider WCC network tells us about cycling trends in Wellington.

I used six years of Wellington weather data to fix the rules on Can You Beat Wellington. Turns out some seasons just don't have good days, and Wellington doesn't have 4 seasons.

An easy 3 ingredient feijoa ice cream recipe. No fuss, no complicated steps. Perfect for using up feijoas in season.

In 2024 I used Lovable (then GPT Engineer) to build a hobby weather app in an afternoon. In 2026 I finally looked at what it had actually generated. The findings were instructive.

What happens when you give the job seeker their own AI agent? I built one to find out, and learned a lot about RAG, Claude, and weekend projects along the way.

After two years on WordPress and AWS Lightsail, I rebuilt the site using Next.js, Vercel, and GitHub. No database, no CMS, just Markdown and deploy.

"You can't beat Wellington on a good day" Since I've joined a team that is predominately made up of people outside of Wellington, people now say this to me all...

A few photos I've taken over the 23/24 summer. Waimarama holiday park at sunset Riding bikes at Waimarama holiday park Wild flower Flowers Waimarama beach...

Camp A Low Hum (CALH) is (was) a music festival that ran from 2004 to 2014. I was lucky enough to go to the 2013 and 2014 CALH, and then it just stopped. Fast...