The Australian federal government has become a shambolic mess of half formed ideas, corruption and delusional thinking. The people will make their voices heard soon and it’s seeming like we’re on a trajectory to boot the LNP out of power, but I fear that it’s going to be too little…

2020 was a really good year, for me personally. My consulting business had a slow but promising start to the year, which included my first paid trip as a freelancer to Sydney in February. Sadly, the client only paid for flights and a few hours of my time on sales…

For a few years now, I’ve observed a really curious thing happen when I take on a new website. My Facebook ads start to echo the project I’m working on with uninteresting content invading my experience. …

I have owned a few graphics cards over the past 26 years so I thought it’d be fun to look back at what they looked like, what games I played and a bit about the computer they were installed in.

The Kettlefish project is something that arose from restructuring the Langenium project from being a Node.js server to a static HTML site built for Github Pages. At that time in 2015, I had no income and faced the prospect of having no ability to regularly look after the EC2 VPS…

Since returning to self employment at the start of October, I’ve focused all my attention on finding new passive sources of income that I could scale up. I’ve spent almost 18 months working as a contractor and have experienced a similar kind of burn out to full time work. Not…

Back in 1999, I was prescribed my first pair of glasses for short sightedness. I never liked wearing them because it was so inhibiting for sports and it wasn’t a good era nor age to be a nerd. …

I’ve finally produced and released the first pages of Issue 04 of Kamigen. It’s been an awesome journey — particularly because the process makes me focus on individual scenes as they unfold and I’m really pleased with the tale this has created.

The recent protests in the US and now unfolding in Australia have given me reason to pause and reflect on what I could do as one person. I’ve spent my entire adult life living in Australia and working full time, but in 12 years as a career programmer I don’t…