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...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

Desktop Software API's in Python (KiCAD, FreeCAD, Blender, QGIS)

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Python wraps around everything For the last couple of years I have mostly written Satellite Data Processing code in Python and plenty of F...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Compiling QGIS in MSVC in 2020

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Compiling QGIS on Windows in 200x I don't quite remember when I decided to help compile QGIS on Windows. It was somewhere between compi...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Microservices the hard way - folders in EC2 Instance

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For day to day work I wrangle containers in EKS these days. However when doing personal projects EKS is a luxury (baseline cost being $70 or...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Replicating Databases in RDS

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One Sunday in 2018 I sat for a whole day in Art Caffe at the ground floor of Yaya Centre in Nairobi on the phone to Norman at AWS Support in...