Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Seven Years to Kubernetes: A Turing Pi 1 Christmas Miracle

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Turing Pi 1 Cluster Board The Seven Year Itch (For Hardware) Often I buy more hardware than I need. Actually, strike that – I always b...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Refactoring the Austender Scraper: From Colly to OCDS

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The AusTender analyser started life as a straight HTML scraper built with Colly , walking the procurement portal page by page. It worked, ...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Solar Ceilings and Compounding Dreams

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It is fashionable to wave away physical constraints with vague references to solar abundance and human ingenuity. Yet every balance sheet ...

Darwin 2022 - Ruminations Compendium

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Collected reflections from the July 2022 Darwin trip, a narrative of adaptation, organisational change, and expansion can live in a single ...
Monday, November 24, 2025

FOSS4G 2025 Auckland: Hazy Hops and Geospatial Heavy Lifting

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Every year, there is an international gathering of geospatial software geeks working in open source somewhere in the world. This has becom...
Saturday, November 5, 2022

Drop shipping products from PCBWay

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Drop shipping products from PCBWay For a while I have been ordering PCB’s from PCBWay and parts from Mouser and Digikey , then hand assem...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Trucks vs Trains as an analogy for Microservices vs Monoliths

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2018 and 2019 was mostly spent obsessing over containers, trucks, trailers and hand written paper invoices for me. I was helping build out t...