Blog posts
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Going Carless
With the exception of a brief period when I first moved out of home, I’ve had a car of my own my whole life. At first, it was a necessity - living in the outer western suburbs of Sydney is not practic...
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A fix for Slate, and on open source projects
Over the past few months, I’ve been helping out at Qwilr upgrading the version the core library underpinning our editor experience, Slate. Slate is a really cool library that I have a hard time explai...
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Sirius, etc.
From Wikipedia: The Sirius building is an apartment complex in The Rocks district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Designed for the Housing Commission of New South Wales in 1978–1979 b...
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Gifts from my Pocket archive
Over this long long event-less weekend, I’ve had some time to breathe and cull my Pocket archive (without much care for the stuff I cull; see the note on calling bankruptcy below). I thought I’d take...
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The Coal Loader
We took a trip up to the Coal Loader Centre For Sustainability a few weeks ago, as I figured it would be one of the more quiet and social-distance-able parklands around the inner city, and we had some...
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Park life
In the current climate, it has been hard to enjoy simple moments without feeling like we are trivialising broader happenings. I moved in with my partner a few weeks ago, and we now live opposite one o...
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Spectre: Initial usage
Last weekend, I went for a little walk down to Blackwattle Bay, and spent some time taking some photos on my phone as the sun set. I had heard about a neat little app that allows you...
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Mushrooms are fun?
So I bought a mushroom growing kit as a gift for a friend last September. Being a lazy millenial though I haven’t actually gotten around to giving it to her (we have seen each other plenty, I just kee...
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Room names @ Qwilr Sydney
From what I can tell, it’s pretty on-brand to have clever or significant names for meeting rooms at trendy startups. As a trendy startup, Qwilr are no exception. Our new Redfern office has a few meeti...
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NCSS 2020
I had the fortune of participating at NCSS as a tutor again this year, from 3-12 January 2020. This year’s NCSS was held in two locations for the first time. I took a bunch of photos that captured my...