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2024

Nov 14

Generative epiphany

Nov 04

A decade of public speaking

Feb 23

Getting GitHub Review Requests per Team

Feb 15

Auto-provisioning Artifact Registry though Cloud Run Source Deploys

2023

Dec 12

Building GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions

Nov 21

Using Cloud Buildpacks images as Cloud Build steps

Aug 15

Getting contextful `latest` images for IaC

Aug 02

Running Cloud Build with Pull Request context

May 08

Self Identifying Cloud Run Service URL

Mar 06

Customising Cloud Build Notifiers

Feb 27

RubyConf AU 2023 - Talk Roundup

Feb 10

Fetch Files from Firebase Hosting

Jan 18

Magic Mirror on a Raspberry Pi Zero

Jan 16

Friction Logging

Jan 09

Django Contributors - A Notebook

2022

Dec 13

When you don't need installations

Dec 01

GitHub Actions and Workload Identity Federation on Google Cloud

Nov 23

On `pull_request_target`, labels, and working with insecurity.

Oct 17

DjangoCon 2022 Day One - Notes

May 30

Quick Tip: Displaying images in PyPI READMEs

Apr 08

On not ignoring files in Cloud Run deployments

Feb 21

Using Workflows to dynamically update a Datasette website

2021

Dec 21

Introducing: ih, as a GUI

Oct 13

Migrating from Flask to FastAPI

Sep 20

Replacing `runserver` in production

Sep 19

Quick Tip: Mass Renaming in MacOS Finder

Jul 05

Rails Tips and Tricks

Jun 02

DjangoCon Europe 2021 notes

Jun 01

blog got a new coat of css

May 15

PyCon 2021 Lightning Talks Day notes

Feb 22

Misc notes from PyCascades 2021

Feb 21

Notes from "All About Podcasting" panel at PyCascades 2021

Feb 21

Notes from fireside chat with Łukasz Langa and Dustin Ingram from PyCascades 2021

2020

Aug 10

Automating Python package releases by extending git

Jul 10

Generating a pseudorandom string: the what and the how

Apr 28

On my remote presentation setup

2019

Dec 07

Packing for anything: Hot, Cold, Wet, and Smoke.

Nov 29

2019 Luggage Review

Nov 04

Half a decade of public speaking

Nov 01

Teaching infrastructure is hard.

Oct 27

Notes from DevOps Days AU/NZ

Oct 06

Why I won't connect with your Professional Network on LinkedIn

Sep 28

Script-o-hatrack

Sep 10

GitHub Actions: Event data, it exists!

Jul 30

On proposing to conferences

Jul 17

Feelings about unique usernames on the internet, a somewhat practical recovery guide.

Jul 11

Query Strings are underdefined

May 12

Snap together a new datasette

May 11

Tutorial: Hello, my name is...

2018

Nov 25

Compatible Release clause in Pip Requirements

Nov 09

Quick Tip: Advanced Workflow Hacks with CircleCI

Nov 05

Quick Tip: AWS Automatic IPs

Oct 31

Quick Tip: Ansible Library Debugging

Oct 27

Gosh, another year of public speaking

Sep 17

On audible notification of long running commands

Sep 12

On debugging cloud-init

Jul 31

Two tweets, a tale about opinions

Jul 31

How to get started administrating Celery

May 11

Emoji Bookmarks

Apr 28

On what I'd like to see at PyCon AU 2018

Apr 06

On the 'other' developers

Feb 08

On unapologetic enthusiasm

Jan 31

2017

Dec 17

On Archiving Projects

Nov 20

On Miniconfs and Specialist Tracks

Oct 28

Yet Another Year Of Public Speaking

Sep 06

Emoji talk status update

Sep 03

Djangocontiki wrap-up

Jun 10

Streaming arbitrary content to Chromecast

May 24

PyCon US 2017 Sprints - thoughts

May 09

Community Leadership Summit 2017 Wrap up

Apr 11

On Collecting No's

Apr 07

Solving the cross-platform emoji problem - opensource.com

Feb 14

WOOTConf Wrap up

Feb 01

Come Sprint with BeeWare!

2016

Dec 28

BuzzConf Wrap Up

Dec 12

kiwicon Wrap Up

Nov 25

On emoji and display issues

Oct 24

Another year of public speaking

Oct 12

On assumed knowledge

Aug 19

KatieConf 2016 Wrap up

Aug 15

PyCon AU 2016 Wrap Up

Aug 06

Solve for emoji

Aug 01

On wearing the wrong t-shirt

Jul 20

On converting Bottle to Klein

Jul 18

On acceptance rates

Jul 17

On memorable presentations

Jul 12

On Funding Open Source

Jul 07

Jul 06

linux.conf.au 2017 call for papers

Jul 04

On El Capitan Niggles

Jun 17

GitHub Pinned Repos

Jun 10

PyCon US Wrap-up

Jun 09

php[tek] Wrap-up

Jun 08

On becoming a Core Contributor

Jun 07

On Talk Retirement

Jun 03

On my last fortnight

May 28

On Language Oddities

May 13

On xargs and deprecated flags

Apr 30

On Internet Games

Apr 27

On Bees and Shiny Coins

Apr 07

Emoji Stuff I Didn't Get To

Apr 06

On post-conference care

Apr 03

DjangoCon Europe 2016

Mar 03

On People being Incredible

Mar 01

On Jekyll, living in the future, and bias

Feb 12

Threading a Bottle

Feb 07

Hacking the LCA Lanyard

Jan 15

On Unmaintained Projects

Jan 03

On Family Tech Support

2015

Dec 19

On Twitter and Noise

Dec 16

On Contempt Culture

Dec 14

On Bias and Security

Dec 09

On Signal to Noise

Nov 30

Memoise All The Things

Nov 26

Puppet, Overrides, and AOE

Nov 21

Goodbye, octohat

Nov 19

Shiny Blog, and Twitter Cards

Nov 04

A year of public speaking

Nov 02

OSDC 2015 Wrap-up

Oct 21

On .dmg and anti-patterns

Oct 19

On Brainstorming and Crayons

Oct 15

OpenSource.com Article

Oct 13

On the live-tweeting of talks

Sep 21

On the extension of the mind

Sep 19

Download YouTube captions

Sep 11

A tale of three confs

Sep 10

So I accidentally ended up speaking at an Apple conference...

Sep 10

PHP NZ 2015 Wrapup

Sep 10

Kiwi PyCon 2015 Wrap Up

Aug 24

On revised opinions

Aug 21

On Artisanal Software and the Shakespeare Effect

Aug 14

On Anxiety - A tale of two talks

Aug 10

On stickers and finite reality

Aug 04

PyCon AU 2015 Wrap Up

Jul 26

On packaging systems and liver failure

Jul 24

DevOpsDays Melbourne 2015 Tech Wrap Up

Jul 18

DevOpsDays Melbourne 2015 Wrap-Up

Jul 04

On multiple submissions

Jun 20

Hacking up a Talk Recording

May 30

May 15

Ruby, Spaces, and String Interpolation

May 12

Google Authenticator fun

May 11

Debugging with Methadone

May 08

InfluxDB and Nulls

May 06

On Public Speaking

May 04

Testing SMTP message creation locally

Apr 30

Captive Portal Assistant

Apr 29

Hat Racks and LinkedIn

Apr 28

Apr 16

Social Media and Information Storage

Apr 15

Raspberry Pie - Review

Mar 18

Going Viral for Fun, Not Profit

Mar 17

Open Source Aniseed Vodka

Mar 16

Lets all build hat racks

Feb 20

Superfish is super fishy, alright

Feb 10

Dockerfile Best Practices

Feb 10

Default Tools and where to find them

Feb 04

Reset all of the Docker

Feb 03

wget is like, meh

Jan 30

Realising the best unit

Jan 24

Jan 22

Ruby makes you a lazy programmer

Jan 18

Jan 17

LCA2015 Wrap-up

Jan 10

LCA2015 - Warm up

2014

Dec 15

Matplotlib on Ubuntu 14.04

Dec 03

Third Negative Speaker Syndrome

Nov 28

Nov 27

Nov 26

LCA 2015 Diversity Funding

Nov 24

Travis for humans

Nov 23

Composer doesnt like semver?

Nov 21

If you had told me a week ago

Nov 20

On CoreOS, Git and Perl

Nov 20

HTML5 Presentation Software

Nov 16

Jekyll and Rake for Better Blogging

Nov 15

Of skeletons and teenage poetry

Nov 10

Installing Pandoc

Oct 29

Boolean Logic and Google

Oct 25

Of mice and trackpads

Oct 25

`git push` to multiple places at the same time

Oct 12

The three screenshots of Ubuntu

Sep 28

Host your own jabber server

Sep 20

Installing Ubuntu 14.04 on UEFI Hardware

Sep 16

Sprockets, jQuery, and asset management, oh my!

Sep 15

Breathe new life into a netbook with Linux

Sep 10

FYI: $("..") vs document.getElementById("..")

Sep 08

Generate code previews like it's 1994

Sep 07

Why extend ruby when we can just extend the most used library? /s

Sep 04

Serve static content in a local webserver in 5 words or less

Sep 01

Aug 28

Infinite Async Ajax - not what you think

Jul 21

Simpler style scraping

Jul 21

Link to your latest release on Github

Jun 25

PSA: export != echo

Jun 24

Top tip: Fixing a corrupt RhythmBox Database

May 26

Top tip: query wikipedia on a data budget

May 26

On Android and Factory Resets

May 07

streamlining release cycles with git (version-bump|release)

May 01

Not a Number values in JSON across technologies

Apr 30

Generating Dual Screen Wallpapers in Cinnamon/Ubuntu

2010

Aug 29

Review: HTC Legend

2009

Dec 11

Teacher says - No software is free

Jul 30

Jul 06

May 04

In webspace, noone can hear you scream.

Mar 13

The New Facebook Changes - Why people hate everything

2008

Dec 10

Apr 23

Apr 11

Blog of an ACM ICPC Codemonkey - Wrap Up

Apr 09

Blog of an ACM ICPC Codemonkey - Contest Day 4 - The World Finals

Apr 09

Apr 08

Blog of an ACM ICPC Codemonkey - Contest Day 3 - Opening Ceremony, Practice and Hot Springs

Apr 08

Contact has been made.

Apr 08

Blog of an ACM ICPC Codemonkey - Contest Day 2 - IBM TechTrek + Activity

Apr 07

Blog of an ACM ICPC Codemonkey - Contest Day 1 - Post-registration

Apr 06

Blog of an ACM ICPC Codemonkey - Contest Day 1 - Preregistration

Apr 06

Blog of an ACM ICPC Codemonkey - Day 3? Meh... Day -1 Contest

Apr 05

brb, snowangels.

Apr 05

Blog of an ACM ICPC Codemonkey - Day 2.. sorta

Apr 05

Blog of an ACM ICPC Codemonkey - Day 1

2007

Dec 14

Facebook status: Missing: 'is'

Nov 06

This is where the Subject or 'Title' goes...