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2022

August 20, 2022 The Rust I used to know
January 16, 2022 GOOD COMPUTER: Boards
January 12, 2022 GOOD COMPUTER: FAT32

2021

June 16, 2021 io_uring is not an event system
April 10, 2021 GOOD COMPUTER: a modern 80's-style computer

2020

August 17, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: mk2
July 27, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: XIAO bricked
July 24, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: XIAO
July 12, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: Broken SD module
July 7, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: Public Service Announcement
July 6, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: LCD graphics
July 5, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: LED counter
July 2, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: LCD
June 22, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: Z-machine
June 2, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER: BASIC
April 28, 2020 GOOD COMPUTER
February 29, 2020 End times
January 11, 2020 Tile windows

2019

December 7, 2019 Switching to elementary OS

2018

August 14, 2018 A talk about Consul

2017

January 17, 2017 U 2 can U2F (linux.conf.au 2017)

2016

October 19, 2016 CompCon 2016 in review
October 2, 2016 A br1ef h1st0ry of [email protected] (CompCon 2016)
June 22, 2016 U 2 can U2F (YAPC::NA 2016)

2015

June 20, 2015 Secret level
June 17, 2015 New release of salada, my JMAP server
June 14, 2015 I was happy with this one
June 12, 2015 An evening of programming puzzles...
May 27, 2015 Fastmail is a SSRF target
May 24, 2015 OAuth+SASL needs a username
May 23, 2015 OAuth for libsasl2
May 12, 2015 First release of salada, my JMAP server
April 19, 2015 A JMAP library for Rust
February 22, 2015 Pebble cricket: updates
February 12, 2015 Everybody root
February 11, 2015 Pebble cricket: name shortener
January 16, 2015 Adding XMPP support to nginx
January 6, 2015 Dummy renderer

2014

November 21, 2014 Broken wire protocol
October 5, 2014 NBN: test box
October 5, 2014 NBN: inside the box
October 3, 2014 NBN: the box
September 22, 2014 Why I bought a Pebble
September 12, 2014 Hexdump
August 9, 2014 Anonymous objects
July 28, 2014 Pebble cricket: draw
July 27, 2014 Pebble cricket: SixFour
July 27, 2014 Pebble cricket: long names
July 26, 2014 Pebble cricket: innings change
July 25, 2014 Pebble cricket: MVP
July 25, 2014 Pebble cricket
July 21, 2014 Introducing hopscotch, a tiny image proxy
July 15, 2014 Dockerising a Perl application
July 14, 2014 Deploying towncrier with Carton
July 11, 2014 SSRF protection in Perl
June 26, 2014 The new Gmail API
June 18, 2014 Perl and etcd? I can help!
June 5, 2014 OAuth2 protected resource errors
May 28, 2014 A notifier app for Fastmail
May 20, 2014 DJabberd mandatory TLS
April 15, 2014 A status dashboard
March 23, 2014 Wrap any Lua function with a sigc++ slot
March 17, 2014 Experimenting with easing functions
March 2, 2014 When good glyph atlases go bad
January 8, 2014 Replacing Graphics::Magick with Imager
January 2, 2014 That will do for tonight
January 1, 2014 Particle systems are fun

2013

December 31, 2013 A particle system
November 21, 2013 The problem with cricket commentary in IRC
November 10, 2013 Start of the new ship market
October 27, 2013 Translation answers
October 25, 2013 Translation question
October 25, 2013 Google sending weird XMPP stuff
October 19, 2013 Code::Blocks for Pioneer
October 16, 2013 Building Pioneer's UI: Part 1: History
October 15, 2013 Upgrading the office servers
October 12, 2013 Multi-line text layout
October 11, 2013 Start of the new bulletin board & chat form
October 3, 2013 GCC's 'maybe unitialized' warning
September 29, 2013 The secret truth of cross-platform development
September 18, 2013 Thrust
August 30, 2013 Building Pioneer's UI: Part 0: Introduction
July 10, 2013 Randomly choosing complementary colours
May 15, 2013 I bisected a kernel problem!
April 12, 2013 My first Rust: Hello OpenGL
April 10, 2013 My first Rust: SDL bindings
March 22, 2013 the google drive api doesn't know about paths, and that's bad
February 28, 2013 Its looking pretty nice!
February 21, 2013 A Lua puzzle
February 16, 2013 Steam Linux
January 30, 2013 On jousting
January 25, 2013 Pioneer is looking real nice these days
January 15, 2013 Regression
January 9, 2013 hacking shenanigans, episode 17
January 3, 2013 Sunrise over New Hope

2012

December 28, 2012 Cameras can be tricky little suckers...
December 25, 2012 Space doesn't care that its Christmas
December 20, 2012 APT policy facts
December 16, 2012 It begins. Again.
December 14, 2012 Computer has been getting slower and slower...
December 10, 2012 A little toy for a tired evening...
November 16, 2012 Pretty sliders
November 16, 2012 I just noticed that our new ship is engaged in fruit transport
November 12, 2012 Bounce
November 9, 2012 Cricket bot
November 6, 2012 Pioneer, Elite: Dangerous, and the questions nobody asked
November 5, 2012 You, c.3200
October 27, 2012 We've got some pretty crazy collaboration going on...
October 22, 2012 ZFS on Linux pretty much just works
October 22, 2012 People are getting excited about new UI toys
October 15, 2012 New info view is coming along nicely
October 13, 2012 Starting to integrate the new UI
October 9, 2012 New UI in pull request
October 9, 2012 main menu, alpha 9, 18 months ago
September 17, 2012 I don't always get things completely wrong...
August 18, 2012 So you think you have nothing to offer
August 15, 2012 Perl and OpenGL?
August 12, 2012 More refactoring today
July 30, 2012 A little experiment I did tonight
July 29, 2012 just got new gas giant rings and they look amazing
June 4, 2012 don't you die on me!
May 21, 2012 Finally got back into some UI work today
May 20, 2012 A code generation bug
May 18, 2012 To determine if its doing a cross-compile...
April 30, 2012 Responding to a sigc++ signal by firing another signal
April 29, 2012 The simplest things...
February 6, 2012 gui brainstorm

2011

May 18, 2011 using stb_truetype with sdl
February 20, 2011 ooh aah oolua
February 5, 2011 what jelly dreams are made of

2010

November 13, 2010 make something
November 6, 2010 Net::OpenID for Perl: its alive!
August 6, 2010 low tide
June 12, 2010 delicious ripple cake!
May 14, 2010 this one time, at band camp...
April 28, 2010 its like a swipe card for aliens
March 4, 2010 every good thing
February 9, 2010 location location location
February 4, 2010 board games
January 29, 2010 catch a ride
January 28, 2010 confessions of a shopaholic
January 17, 2010 new year's high resolution

2009

December 10, 2009 i like repetetive music
December 10, 2009 how 'bout some horn?
July 27, 2009 putting things in context
June 29, 2009 from the ground up
May 9, 2009 blast from the past
May 4, 2009 i've got a package
May 3, 2009 rectangle rodeo
April 28, 2009 delicious cake
April 1, 2009 all the pretty colours
January 28, 2009 cluttering my life

2008

July 17, 2008 some assembly required
June 19, 2008 lately
June 4, 2008 tied at both ends
March 9, 2008 the centre for kids who can't write good
March 2, 2008 while stocks last
February 25, 2008 lay it out for me
February 18, 2008 cow launched!
February 17, 2008 needs more pirate
February 11, 2008 back from egypt
February 1, 2008 i don't want your money, i just want your love
January 29, 2008 i can write forever
January 22, 2008 with a bullet
January 18, 2008 note to self
January 16, 2008 a rock opera in three parts
January 14, 2008 year in review
January 9, 2008 i'm going to egypt; i'll bring you back something nice
January 7, 2008 a global problem
January 1, 2008 year of something

2007

December 19, 2007 zooooooon!
December 18, 2007 virtual insanity
December 13, 2007 rivendell is kinda crap actually
December 12, 2007 visiting the elves
December 10, 2007 this is not the symbol you're looking for
December 9, 2007 snag
December 8, 2007 not implemented
December 1, 2007 bitchin' threads
November 25, 2007 its fontastic!
November 21, 2007 types, not as we know them
November 20, 2007 build, build, as fast as you can
November 18, 2007 a curly one
November 16, 2007 a fine old port
November 15, 2007 one for the road
November 14, 2007 opinion noted
November 11, 2007 tastes like chicken
November 10, 2007 the big week
November 3, 2007 twisty passages, all aligned
October 31, 2007 odd jobs
October 28, 2007 aros and the gpl
October 25, 2007 a plan for a filesystem
October 16, 2007 brb fighting monsterz
October 11, 2007 how do i linked code?
October 7, 2007 cout << 'hello' << endl
October 4, 2007 flushed away
October 2, 2007 almost there
September 26, 2007 its alive!
September 26, 2007 i'm doing it wrong
September 23, 2007 i can see forever
September 22, 2007 dreaming in colour
September 21, 2007 can't make the scene if you ain't got the green
September 19, 2007 at least its something
September 17, 2007 insanity in three parts
September 12, 2007 i'll be your host this evening
September 10, 2007 when good libraries go bad
September 7, 2007 a tale of two compilers
September 1, 2007 standing on the shoulders of minnows
August 30, 2007 don't you know its rude to point?
August 21, 2007 blah, or something like it
August 11, 2007 many unrelated things
July 22, 2007 chasing parked c(h)ars
July 17, 2007 how slow can you go?
July 15, 2007 lda #$00
July 6, 2007 going old school
July 2, 2007 writeback
June 28, 2007 tunnelling for two
June 26, 2007 busybot
June 23, 2007 early tests
June 22, 2007 when i was 17...
June 22, 2007 pipe the what?
June 18, 2007 can't get enough
June 17, 2007 the mundane details
June 16, 2007 too many tangents
June 13, 2007 its all pipes
June 12, 2007 open for business
June 10, 2007 merge left
June 7, 2007 the special ones
June 7, 2007 i've got something to report
June 4, 2007 another nail in the coffin
June 1, 2007 consolation prize
May 31, 2007 follow me into the caves!
May 23, 2007 lock it in
May 21, 2007 supersize me
May 17, 2007 opinion noted
May 9, 2007 the locksmith
May 5, 2007 not to scale
May 3, 2007 phew
April 29, 2007 later that day
April 28, 2007 now with files!
April 24, 2007 in your face
April 20, 2007 and like that, its gone
April 19, 2007 how may i direct your call?
April 17, 2007 a word tells a thousand pictures
April 15, 2007 write on, commander
April 4, 2007 everything old is new again
March 29, 2007 slow and steady
March 25, 2007 once more with feeling
March 21, 2007 i was smart once
March 19, 2007 my brain hurts
March 13, 2007 i'm the boss, need the info
March 12, 2007 it gets late early these days
March 9, 2007 some mail
March 7, 2007 now comes the tricky bit
March 5, 2007 first drop
February 28, 2007 its the browser, stupid
February 28, 2007 cold fusion explosion
February 27, 2007 boring stuff
February 23, 2007 milestone
February 20, 2007 mounting excitement
February 14, 2007 start me up
February 12, 2007 insert clever title here
February 11, 2007 damn technicalities
February 8, 2007 global pandemic
February 8, 2007 exercises for the reader
February 6, 2007 front end loader
February 4, 2007 you are confused; but this is your normal state
February 2, 2007 all packeted up (with somewhere to go)
January 29, 2007 where everybody knows your name
January 25, 2007 the nurses are stealing my money
January 25, 2007 drowning in a sea of unfamiliar code
January 24, 2007 in soviet russia, system files you
January 23, 2007 quiet time
January 22, 2007 my hat is awesome!
January 20, 2007 optimise for fun
January 20, 2007 let's all get drunk and play ping-pong
January 19, 2007 spinning around
January 18, 2007 i can hear you mummy!
January 16, 2007 the avid reader
January 13, 2007 for extra strength bitrot, use aspro clear
January 12, 2007 ouroboros

2006

October 20, 2006 tile me purple
September 15, 2006 getting testy
September 1, 2006 vimming for fun and profit
August 27, 2006 constant classes
August 20, 2006 a 'complete' success
August 19, 2006 closures in c

2003

June 2, 2003 A crash course in SASL and DIGEST-MD5 for XMPP