Blog Posts - Page 2
My second digital life: trying Brave and Duck Duck Go
Part of an ongoing series exploring my digital life, starting with "Designing my digital life (again)" Thinking about privacy and surveillance as I di...
My second digital life: what is privacy?
Part of an ongoing series exploring my digital life, starting with "Designing my digital life (again)" Part of understanding my gut feeling for wantin...
Working around DVD regions
Yesterday, what I really wanted to do was watch 3x3 Eyes. I own the DVD, so this should be a matter of plugging play ... except what I own is the NTSC...
Designing my digital life (again)
Nearly a decade ago I discovered the power of controlling my environment by being deliberate in how I wanted to operate. This consisted of reflecting ...
Experiment: smart watch reminders - 15 minute vibra-chime
This post is mostly for me. It's not a design diary, it's not a retrospective. Using embedded development tools is tricky and so this represents some ...
Getting started with smartwatch development
So the goal here is to have some fun hacking some watch face ideas together for personal use. I'm not looking to sell, or share. When working with emb...
TeslaBridge II - live in the wild
A couple of months ago, I detailed the construction of a special guest wifi for my car, and ended the post having successfully got the car to connect ...
My first smartwatch
Today is day 5 of smartwatch ownership for me. This is a purchase that was made after a lot of thought about my needs and how I might use it, but like...
Design diary: special guest wifi
In late 2017 I bought the best toy I have ever had the pleasure of playing with: a Tesla Model S. I'm not a car-person, so I didn't have to overcome t...
Lessons in keeping music software up to date - part 2
Two days ago I realised things were a bit wafty with my DAW setup, but now it's time to do a proper cleanup, because upgrading to Reaper 5 64-bit has ...
Lessons in keeping music software up to date
Back in 2015, when I wasn't working I was trying to make music. I spent a lot of time and some money to assemble a set of tools to support my creativi...
Design diary: inspirational dashboard
I love Momentum, the Chrome plugin, that welcomes me to each tab I open. I don't use all the bells and whistles it offers, but I really really value t...