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A Reddit post gave Can You Beat Wellington a proper long tail of visitors, so it's time it left the subdomain and got a home of its own.

My rubbish collector quoted a brand new customer $47 less than I pay after eight years of loyalty. It's completely legal, and it's everywhere.

I wired a Meshtastic radio into Home Assistant over the weekend. The hard part was finding current info on the Wellington mesh, so here it all is in one place.

Twenty-one years of band names typed by hand leaves a fossil record of human inconsistency. Here's what it took to tidy up the Matinee Idle archive.

Fediverse federation, email subscriptions, Mastodon comments. No database, no cookies, no trackers. What I built on this blog, and what I left out on purpose.

A love letter to Matinee Idle, a cult radio show, and the rabbit hole it sent me down. With 21 years of archive data, 15,411 songs, and one very strange most-played track.

This blog is now on the fediverse. No algorithm, no intermediary, no one else's platform. Here's why that matters and how to follow along.

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.