So upon the stern direction of Canva and the presentation at DDD Perth 2025 which strongly asserted that legacy developers like me need to get over themselves (or their current employers) and embra...

Part two of the Big Day was that it was Software Freedom Day and the Perth Linux Users Group had a meetup in the evening. I couldn’t in good conscience miss that opportunity given the shared herita...

No I don’t have a stutter, yesterday I went to DDD Perth 2025 as promised. It was bigger and grander than I’d anticipated taking over a third of the stadium (up to 1300 attendees) making me want to...

Every once in a while you have an itch to scratch and there’s a good enough solution already out there. If you’re following the blog, you’ll note that I wanted to post in an open-source-ish way my...

I have come up with an automation. Let’s see how this goes. It seems that you can import Markdown into Notes. However Notes has some restrictions: The first line is always a title and implies t...

At least for me, as a Google Reeder refugee (thank you Reeder app), a blog without RSS cannot be called a blog at all. A note that your average GitHub Pages blog might not automatically get an RSS...

Now any self-respecting site on the 2025 internet needs to be ad-supported right? Well what happens when you’re brand new, and you have yet to atract a sponsor? You run a _house ad_ of course! And...

Let’s pull back the covers and go technical which I love to do. Given I’ve learned a bit from some documentation I’ve read already, let’s also give back. That’s very important! So… here’s how this...

Depending on when you read this, I’m either going or have been to DDD Perth 2025. This is my first time since linux.conf.au 2014, which was also in Perth, to go out to a major conference. My goal...

In the spirit of a lot of **GitHub **directories, here’s an initial contribution of my lists: Security Now Running continuously for over 20 years,* Steve Gibson *is a live-long-and-prosper legend....