We're selling the house in the Algarve, we're selling Fonte do Palheiro. Here is how this happened. In 2019, I started my sailing journey full-time. For three years we lived on the boat, moving from place to place, learning what it means to build a home out of whatever you can carry. Then in 2022 we arrived in the Algarve.
I built this because I was tired of trying things and failing at them. Not because I didn't have the tools. I had enough productivity stuff to stock a library. Just no system that actually stuck.
After six years of silence, I'm back. The world has gone mad, but chaos and opportunity are the same thing. Here's what I've been building: a micro VC where friends pool experience, not money, to build small ventures solo.
I hit the end of another one of my 10 year cycles and my iterative approach to live meant that I needed to start some new experiments.
When we started iwantmyname 10 years ago we sat down and defined an impact statement first.
How to integrate `create-react-app` with `phoenix` in a few simple steps
I’ve been working with startups for a long time, and one of the concepts I’ve taught many of them is the “hooked” model.
How can we build a truly open community if we are hiding in walled gardens all the time
How can we move towards welcoming communities long term?
If we truly want to address issues in our society we need to work towards shared values
a thinking piece about a possible future for the startup scene
*TL;DR: Thursday, 14th January 2016, 5:30 at Bridge Street*
I care about entrepreneurship because I believe in the power of collaboration and the power of people working together for fun and profit, quite literally. I see entrepreneurship as a way to create resilient communities that address problems by worki
When I think about building software I try to see where we need to end up in order to help the customer right now and then work backwards from there. Because I am really bad at knowing what customers want I mock up something that is good enough to ge
Writing software is an interesting process. It transforms abstract concepts, feature requests, vague ideas into something people can interact with. It is a modern way of making ideas real, tangible, visible and hopefully usable. This process is a str
Last week I attended an interesting conference called [open source//open society](http://opensourceopensociety.com/) that brought together an interesting cross section of geekdom that I have not seen at a conference before. I had discussions ranging
Linking to a post I wrote for the iwantmyname blog a few days ago in the leadup for [OS//OS](http://www.opensourceopensociety.com/) - a conference about open source and open society.
We are starting a new experiment in our life, it is called "project mountain retreat". The back story to this experiment is that Manu, ever since we first were in St Arnaud and looked at Lake Rotoiti, loved this place and it felt very much at home f
The TICSA bill and what happens with NZ tech industry
Subdomain rot and the security implications
4HWW is an interesting movement but somewho I don't quite fit in.
Why ALIAS-type DNS Records Break The Internet
I work quite a bit with daemons on remote hosts that are normally not directly listening to the public internet. I use SSH tunnels a lot and had [previously used a simplistic script][1] to deal with it.
Open and uncapturable is the mission of InternetNZ and the promise to push for access to the internet for everyone. This is what we as a incorporated society stand for and what we try to push. We, all the members of InternetNZ.
For my new startup I play with a lean prototyping stack that will enable me to prototype and evaluate ideas really fast and test on the market.
The slides from my talk about mojolicious at perlmongers Wellington yesterday.
One of the joys of working as a contractor is quoting for projects that possibly become a real project some when
every once in a while i stumble upon an article from someone pointing out the dangers we geeks live in in terms of unhealthy work hours and our very own unhealthy mind set.
slides and video from my ignite wellington talk are finally online
The slides from my talk at LCA2010 in Wellington about parallel programming and why it matters for internet infrastructures
It's been a bit of a busy time lately as we launched three new platforms in the last time and that brought with it a lot of challenges. Fortunately it also pushed me to complete our migration to our new backend which is now entirely message driven and based only on the finest stuff one finds in t...
Here are the slides from my talk at erounge Wellington yesterday
The slides from my RabbitMQ talk yesterday at perl mongers Wellington.
Did you ever want to override the way Catalyst builds its path? a bit like Rails or Django? Did you miss the handy config file and did it also take you half a day to finally figure out how to do it and realise that it is straight forward?
Ever needed that one script that simply opens up a ssh tunnel and closes it after usage again? In the background? Here it is.
To enable read only repositories via HTTP is pretty straight forward. I'll cover the basic setup based on nginx and our previously discussed gitosis setup here.
A short summary of the talk I gave yesterday at erlounge Wellington about RabbitMQ and messaging in general.
In the last part of startup automation I talked you through the basics of configuring gitosis and the puppet config directory to make deployment of the config files really easy. Obviously we need some test clients and a working server now to play. I use parallels for local development and normall...
Startup automation became a big buzz currently but I think it has always been key to those who were successful. The speed to market is important and this is not only true for small companies.
i guess many of us geeks went through the one or other phase in their life when they felt themselves trapped in the system with no way out. "the system" meaning any kind of mental state that prevented a clear view on the situation.