I'm leaving Fuzion today!
Four excellent years come to a close. Thanks!
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2017
Hubot SSLLabs
hubot, is example.org ssl ok?
John Key is watching ...
John Key came to Dunedin, what did he watch here?
CiviCon 2017 recap
Whoops, I forgot to write this post. Where are those notes?
2015
Blackbird nest & rPi cam
Now I'm concerned about small critter privacy issues.
Letter to Santa
It's been a while since I wrote one of these.
KoalaSafe first impressions
Got a device to manage the devices.
Mandarin lessons
WTF, now I'm learning Mandarin?
Dunedin, let's fly the flags
Let's engage people in the flag referendum by putting the options on display.
Online Voting Trial - submission to Dunedin City Council & outcome
A submission on online voting, which Dunedin City considered trialling in next year's local elections.
Archimedes - a tool for tracking Drupal Sites
Did a quick show & tell of Archimedes at Drupal Dunedin & Wellington, here are some notes / links.
GovHack 2015 NZ Awards!
Our GovHack entry won some awards and nice words too.
Getting TiddlyBot on the wireless
Tiddly up and running with the Wifi device you have handy.
GovHack 2015: We're Going to Wellington!
Excited! We've been invited to the awards ceremony.
CiviCRM Contribute Form JS: Don't Rely on Priceset IDs.
The foolish man built his house upon the sand.
NZ PHP Conf 2015 Speaker Lineup
That didn't look like a representative sample to me.
GovHack 2015: Legolas
Take the legislation, make a conversation.
GovHack 2015: my writeup
My experience of GovHack NZ 2015.
South Dunedin Flooding
There was a lot of rain, and it flooded. Parts of Dunedin were not built for this - reclaimed swampland wants to be swamp once more.
Archimedes - Drupal platform for managing Drupal platforms
When you have Drupal sites you have Drupal updates, and if you have update notification emails turned on then you’ll have lots of notices in your INBOX too.
Atom Remote Edit UI & speed of opening remote files
A very small observation about interface.
Trajectory, 2015
Hi 2015! I’ve got plans for you.
2014 Year in review
It’s the start of 2015 and I figured why not follow on from the year in reviews offered everywhere with my own. Hi! I’m writing this for my own reflection mo...
2014
Learning where you are
I’ve been reflecting on work lately. I enjoy the team I work with, the crews we collaborate with and our clients who are all pretty damn good people. But I f...
Making team-talk a part of everyday work
Lately I’ve been studying my task focus, and noticing which activities are “interruptive” in the sense that they break the flow of productive work. Number on...
IBM Watson Personality Insights is a horoscope machine at the Victoria Park Markets
Here’s what it says about me, based on being fed a randomly handy post from this here blog.
2013
Speedcurve
A couple of weeks ago I got to try out Speedcurve, which has just launched today.
Cloudspotter
cloudspotter
Pow
I know it’s pretty old news, but I just have to say that as someone who’s messed around with hosts files and apache configs for some years now, I’m freaking ...
Political sites speedtested (again!)
I’m not bored of this yet. I’m just getting started. Trying WebPageTest.org this time to compare results - it isn’t quite as pretty but I think it’s more det...
PGP in Parliament.
With greater awareness of the visibility of email content and traffic, I got wondering whether any NZ elected representatives had published PGP keys in order...
Friday night, delighted.
It’s Friday night, I’m delighted. Home and quiet, the fire warms the room, it’s midwinter cold outside. About a month ago I started working for Fuzion, run b...
A second survey of NZ political party sites
A second survey, to follow the first unscientific survey of NZ political sites. On the eve of the Ikiroa-Rawhiti by-election no less.
NZ673 flight deck
The lads got invited onto the flight deck of NZ673 by the burser, and met Arjen the pilot.
Defrag
As of this evening I have an idea in my head for a cheesy design. It’s the Windows DEFRAG.EXE block rearrangement, which I might throw together in JS to deco...
Unscientific survey of NZ political site performance
Homepages only, really just a speed index via Pingdom’s excellent Full Page Test. I look forward to reviewing this in a few months’ time. Sites are ordered b...
CiviCRM upgrades via Vagrant
The last few weeks I’ve been working for the NZ Green Party on an update to their CiviCRM DB. I expect a bit of suffering in any CiviCRM upgrade, and I wasn’...
Oh, Delicious
CiviCRM, Smarty looking better
Tim Gummer asked me to look at a template tweak for Natural Areas a few days ago - they wanted to display a little extra contact info (membership type, statu...
Just the medicine
For the last several years I’ve been rigging websites largely for NGOs and dot-orgs who are campaign focussed - typically political or non-govt, and as often...
Letting go is easy
CiviCRM blows me away. I love the people who use it and the development team, but I kind of hate the codebase. It’s insane that I’ve been working with it as ...