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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...

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...