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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 (YCBWOAGD). So I built a website that checks the weather and tells you whether today is one of them.

Photos from summer 2023/24 in Hawke's Bay: sunsets and bike rides at Waimarama holiday park, Waimarama beach and Motu o Kura / Bare Island.

Camp A Low Hum came back in 2024, ten years after the last one. Photos from weekend one of CALH 2024 and a playlist of the bands that played.

Search keeps getting worse and good writing is buried in apps and videos. So here's my list of the websites and blogs I actually read, many from Wellington.

Ten years of riding to work up a Wellington hill: what bike to use, what to wear in the rain and wind, lights, bags, locks and a puncture kit.

A Bluetooth car battery monitor sold by Jaycar was sending users' location data to China. I asked Jaycar what they knew. Here's what they said.