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Software I like

Posted on 2024-02-11
A bunch of stuff I think is worth paying money for, even when you don't have to.
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The flooded road near Warwick

Posted on 2023-07-21
"If I screw this up," I said to Char, "I want it on video."
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Some jq tricks

Posted on 2022-03-15
Learned a few things today, thought I'd post them online. Some binary search is involved.
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UQCS Panel: "Things I Wish I Knew In First Year"

Posted on 2022-03-15
I was on a panel for the UQ Computing Society, and I had a plush shark on my lap the whole time.
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Shakespearean references and British authors

Posted on 2022-01-23
I had some strong opinions on the internet: give Shakespeare a rest, and leave him out of original content occasionally.
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Prettypipe

Posted on 2021-10-13
My very first Rust program helps you distinguish between stdout and stderr.
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Catstrap

Posted on 2021-09-28
Better shitposting through legitimate front-end libraries.
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Animated timer shenanigan in After Effects

Posted on 2021-04-12
Back to making important videos of other people's dogs 😎
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How to use hybrid properties with regular expressions in SQLAlchemy

Posted on 2021-03-09
SQLAlchemy has these things called hybrid properties, which let you create class attributes that can be accessed from Python but also from SQL. They can be tricky to combine with other logic like regular expressions.
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I've finally clicked with roguelikes

Posted on 2021-02-19
Still not becoming a video game writer, though.
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Entry-level activism

Posted on 2021-02-07
Musings on becoming a climate activist.
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Zsh notes from a macOS Quick Action

Posted on 2020-12-26
Some notes on zsh environment variables while creating a macOS quick action to prepare images for web publishing.
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How to turn off autocorrect everywhere

Posted on 2020-12-21
For the control freak who thinks they make fewer mistakes than the computer does, and is probably right.
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Twinkler

Posted on 2020-12-06
Here's a toy to get your code into a festive spirit.
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T-Text: a CSS study

Posted on 2020-10-29
This is a simple demo of a layout idea I had. Inspired by my working through the Mozilla Development Network's CSS resources recently.
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