Click & Collect: tracking available supermarket grocery collection slots

Last Thursday, New Zealand entered Alert Level 4 , and we've been asked to stay home as much as possible. To avoid…

Wallet App: Initial Idea

Way back in October 2019, I wanted to build a simple app to help track cash payments. This week I finally started…

Monitoring Our Gas Usage With a Raspberry Pi

Table of Contents Summary The Problem How Do You Read A Meter? A Simple Circuit Software: The Odometer Project How…

Programming an old Arduino Nano on Linux (without the IDE)

A wee while ago, I picked up a clone of an Arduino Nano from the local electronics store. This afternoon, I was trying…

Summing Contiguous Lists in Prolog

The past couple weeks, I have been trying to wrap my head around Prolog. Prolog is a logic programming langauge, that…

util.debuglog

Today I wanted to add debug logs to the turbine project. This means that when a certain environment flag is set, extra…

It's The Twenties!

Woo! It's the first week of 2020! This is a slightly shorter week than usual, because it starts on a Wednesday - shout…

Panmure Basin

Brunch At The Fed

Last Complete Week of 2019

I spent a lot of time this week configuring my microservices to deploy to Cloud Run using Cloud Build has a been a…

Chef John's French Toast

For breakfast I tried out a new method of cooking French Toast. It's from Chef John - creator of the amazing Food…

A Walk By The River

A quiet Tuesday afternoon in Rotorua with my family and our two dogs, Murphy and Tilly.

Turbine & Google Cloud PubSub

I am thinking about deploying a few projects onto the Google Cloud. These projects will be built on microservices and…

The Monte Carlo Method

This is my solution to dailycodingproblem.com problem #14. The Problem The area of a circle is defined as πr^…

First week back in Rotorua

Thoughts It's been a week of being back home in Rotorua. I've been away since February, but it feels like I haven't…

Project DASH - an open source strava dashboard

I have been running since June 2016, and each year I set a goal for the total distance I want to cover over the year. In…

Binary Trees

I recently subscribed to the dailycodingproblem.com . Every morning they send out a coding challenge based on an…

Peanut Butter & the Anthropocene Reviewed

Trying out a new blog format, where I just jot down notes about what I did today. It's inspired by the wonderful blog…

Pathetically Achievable Goals

I had a goal at the start of the year to regularly post to my blog. I haven't posted to my blog in a while, and every…

Pizza

I moved into my new apartment on Monday. It's a cute little place - I'm renting it for a month through Wunderflats. It…

Running Shoes

I finally bought a pair of running shoes in Berlin today. It's something I've been meaning to do since I got here nearly…

SIM Cards and Supermarkets

Tomorrow my Vodafone UK prepaid SIM card plan expires. It's a bit of a shame, because I still have a whopping 15.7 GB of…

Daylight Savings and Sundials

I've been thinking a lot about time recently. We've got Daylight Saving Time (DST) coming up soon in Germany. On the…

Schöneberg

I've been living in Schöneberg for the past few days, and really enjoying it. On both Saturday and Sunday I would wake…

selfupdate

On Friday morning I updated one of my favourite libraries: selfupdate . It's open source, and you can find the code at…

One Wok Noodle Stir Fry

This is a recipe I've been iterating on for dinner for the past couple of days, and it's quite tasty so I thought it…

Wireguard Port Forwarding

I've been trying to setup Wireguard. It's one of those things where it looks like it should be quite easy, but if it…

Rooibos Chai Tea

Last night I had dinner at Jacob and Alex's place. Jacob cooked a fantastic Palak Paneer curry, Alex served us some…

Git Guru

Yesterday I started a new project. Quick background: At Mish Guru we use Github to manage our code. When a developer…

Washing Machines

I'm currently living out of a small duffel bag, and only have so many pairs of clothes, so I need to wash them all about…

Hot Sauce

Jacob is a big fan of the YouTube channel Hot Ones - a TV show where celebrities are invited to eat a series of chicken…

Stir Fry and Wikis Day #2

Song: Alfie Templeman - Like an Animal. This morning at work I continued setting up Gitbook, and migrated all our…

Wiki's and Public Transport

Song: Dominic Fike - 3 Days. ^ I'm going to figure out some way to embed a music player for these songs at some point…

Cats and Cafes

Song: Big Red Machine - Gratitude. After today I will have been in Berlin for one week. I packed my bags and checked out…

Colour Schemes and Supermarkets

Song: Pete and the Pirates - Think Twice I'm a big fan of the band Teleman, and recently discovered their previous band…

Public Holidays and Pizza

Song: Yellow House - Stray I want to get back into blogging. I'm not too sure what to write about. So I'm just going to…

Kitchen: Bagels

Saturday morning. I decided to bake a batch of bagels. This is the second time I've ever made bagels - the first I tried…

Kitchen: Ginger Crunch

This was a late night cooking experiment. Originally I wanted to make some bagels - but I didn't have enough flour. A…

Kitchen: Sunday Pancakes

This morning I made pancakes for breakfast. They turned out pretty well. Recipe: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking…

Mixtape: A Midnight Bolt Of Electricity

Continuing to redub my mixtape collection, today I chose one of my favourite mixes - "A Midnight Bolt of Electricity…

Mixtape: Charles Bradley and Soul

Today I purchased my third cassette deck from Fred at retrotronics.co.nz. This one is a Sony TC-K615S and it's an…

Instant Film: Mt. Eden 2

I've had a cold for the last couple of days and have been stuck inside with chicken noodle soup, lemon+honey drinks and…

Sony TC-161SD Cassette Deck Repair

I quite like cassette tapes - particularly recording mixtapes. I acquired a 1970's Sony cassette deck earlier this year…

Instant Film: Mt. Eden

One of my goals for 2017 is to take an instant film photograph every single day. Yesterday I had lunch at one of my…

Mixtape: Life Below The Storm

I woke up a cold this morning - and went out for a walk listening to my 'Sick Days' mixtape I made the last time I had a…