#wellington

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.

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.

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.

"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...

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...

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...

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...