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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...

I came across this good blog post on Hacker News this morning, from Jason Velazquez at his blog, From Jason - Where have all the websites gone? This is...

Around 10 years ago I rode a bike into work for the first time. It wasn’t by choice - I had been riding a classic Vespa to and from work, but the muffler had...

In June this year I came across an excellent blog post by A ustralian Hacker, Haxrob about a common Bluetooth car battery monitor siphoning up your location...

I've posted photos of native birds I occasionally see in my front yard a few times ( here , here and here ). The increase in birds visiting my home isn't...

Probably the best perk of being able to work from home is the view out of my window sill office out on to a massive pohutukawa tree. While I've lived here for...

Trying to stay on top of AI news can be exhausting - there is just so much and only the most hyped or most gloomy tends to make it to our feeds. Here are a few...

One of the first things we did when we moved into our house over a decade ago was plant a bunch of feijoa trees. They were the first fruit trees we had ever...

A Kākā visits our pohutukawa tree on a Sunday morning. This is the only good photo I could get of him - the neighbors cat was on the ground looking up at him,...

Many years ago, myself and a few friends started a band - The Concerned Residents. We played gigs around Wellington bars, including at the Wellington Garden...

We’ve been in Level 4 lockdown for two weeks now - today is our last day before we move down to L3. While I miss heading into town, meeting up with people etc,...

During the summer in Wellington it’s nice to get out for a walk at lunchtime (when I’m working in the office). Here are a couple of photos I’ve taken over the...

... and what to read over the holiday I tend to save interesting articles to read when I have some downtime - but often they sit in a list forgotten. The...

2020 is over half way though and its been pretty terrible so far. To make it slightly easier, here are some new words and sayings that we’ve had to create...

Welcome! I’ve had this domain name for a while now. With a less common name like Radomski, it was pretty easy to get a local domain (although the .com version...