Archive • Floor and Varnish • Buttondown

March 11, 2024

Hi there, Today marks 13 years since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. I was living and working in Tokyo at the time, and even though I was not near...

New Blog Post: Amazon Prime’s Localisation Fail

February 21, 2024

Hi there, During my last trip to Japan, as I watched my Japanese sister-in-law flick through her Amazon Prime account, I noticed a localisation problem that...

New Blog Post: Creating Plover Plugins with Python

February 5, 2024

Hi there, About six months ago, I took my first steps into building plugins for Plover, a stenography engine. I now have five plugins under my belt, and...

[New Blog Post] Coding Test Review: Culture Amp

December 7, 2023

Hi there! I have another coding test review blog post for you, this time for a company called Culture Amp. I was forwarded their web developer front and back...

New Blog Post: Get on the Same Page as your HID Device

October 25, 2023

Hi there, During my preparations for recording another Steno Doom video, I inadvertently ended up solving a problem related to programmatically talking to...

New Blog Post: Thanks, Past-Me

April 28, 2023

Hi there, It has been a long time since I’ve written a blog post, but after much procrastinating and grinding, I finally pushed something out the digital...

New Blog Post: Sharing AppleScript Handlers

July 4, 2022

Hi there, My follies with AppleScript have compelled me to write another blog post about it, this time about the unintuitive methods of sharing code between...

New Blog Post: "Welcome back"

July 3, 2022

Hi there, I have just published a new blog post. Rather than an instructional how-to, it's a story from my time working in Japan. <br /> “Welcome back” |...

New Blog Post: Flexbox Furigana

June 25, 2022

Hi there, Ever read any Japanese text like this, 日 ( に ) 本 ( ほん ) 語 ( ご ) , and wondered what those little annotations are above the characters (assuming...

[New Blog Post] AppleScript Records: Strings as Keys

June 10, 2022

Hi there, I have a much shorter post for you this time, but probably on an even more esoteric subject: AppleScript key-value stores, and the incomprehensible...

[New Blog Post] Steno Gaming: Doom Typist

June 7, 2022

Hi there, The previous two blog posts I've written about setting up Doom to play on a Mac and flashing Georgi firmware were created in service to this one,...

New Blog Post: Flashing Georgi Firmware

May 18, 2022

Hi there, I’ve been playing around with the firmware in my Georgi steno keyboard, particularly it’s Gaming mode, something I did not know much about until...

New Blog Post: Play Classic Doom on a Mac

May 13, 2022

Hi there, Recently, one of my side projects led me down a rabbit hole that involved trying to find a way to run the game Doom (1993) on my Mac. This ended up...

New Blog Post: self.run

May 1, 2022

Hi there, It’s been a while since I’ve written on the blog, but I finally have a new post to share. It’s about getting into running, from the point of view...

New Blog Post: A Person’s Character (人という字は)

October 17, 2021

Hi there, Being able to speak a bit of Japanese means I sometimes get asked to emcee, or translate speeches, at weddings where Japanese and English speakers...

New Blog Post: Pipe a Codebase into Ruby

October 10, 2021

Hi there, Someone on the Ruby Australia Slack asked an interesting question about piping code into Ruby from a command line. I managed to answer it, and...

New Blog Post: A Canvas of Cypress Tests

October 6, 2021

Hi there, I’ve been playing around with Cypress browser-based testing recently, and decided to write some integration tests for one of my old toy...

New Blog Post: Plover For the Record

September 4, 2021

Hi there, While doing the Platinum Steno series of theory exercises, I learned all about the concept of Q&A, which is dictation testing involving cross-...

New Blog Post: Going Platinum

July 12, 2021

Hi there! I’ve got a new stenography-related blog post you today. I recently finished the Platinum Steno series of theory lessons, and I liked them so much I...

[New Blog Post] Coding Test Review: Sentia

May 9, 2021

Hi there, After doing a coding test that got me running rails new for the first time in what seemed like a while, I decided to write a post about it. Check...

New Blog Post: ░▒▓ＥＬＭＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ▓▒░

May 2, 2021

Hi there, I've just published a new blog post about porting 80sfy, a cool site combining synthwave music and animated GIFs, to Elm. Check it out here!...

New Blog Post: Speak at a Meetup

December 6, 2020

Hi there! I'm a big fan of technical meetups, and even organise a few of them in Sydney, Australia. Getting people to speak and create new content for the...