Welcome to the obligatory first post. There always has to be one! I’m glad that you’ve stopped by. This is a fresh attempt at a public-facing blog for myself. I am a software developer who has w...

Here’s a tip for anyone like me that is straddling two camps: working on the upstream Beeware codebases wanting to use them within separate external apps Tip 1 is pretty obvious in the Pytho...

Have I been pulled too far into the Reality Distortion Field? Either I am missing something or the AI hype for MacBooks is missing an asterisk. I am very happy for the overall build quality of my ...

Probably wasn’t ever a good idea… I tend to enjoy doing things directly on my device and when we had poor Internet connections, that meant locally too. These days people look at me strangely when ...

Or how to preserve your noob-ness It’s been quite the month and quite the transition from keeping a low profile. The PyCon AU 2026 videos are on YouTube and I was hoping my ham-fisted *Session Cha...

A love letter to my public transport experience alongside PyCon AU 2026. So… there were two reasons I wanted to go to PyCon AU. One was the conference itself and the other was to get myself back t...

The last day, for me, came with a very odd sense of familiarity. Not just feeling comfortable but feeling like I’d been there before. I don’t quite know what to put it down to, because PyCon is its...

Friday was an excellent if naturally locally oriented day with the education track. A day where I learned Toowoomba is “not Brisbane”, apparently “cold” (but perhaps simply “colder”) and some stud...

What did I learn? Well, that it’s a learning journey to be a session chair for a start! Apologies to the AV staff for not sequencing the very simple instructions and bigger apologies to Erin from ...

10,000 people. That’s the number who I can potentially reach with my app now. The experiment and learning experience continues with external TestFlighting now approved by Apple. That’s quite the ...