Finally got around to reading Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer - I have no idea why anyone would want to climb Everest, it sounds like absolute hell. Great read though.

Smart TVs and smart TV apps were a fucking mistake. It's taken me a full twenty minutes (and over a dozen app crashes and TV restarts) to get a single episode to play from the start in the Kocowa app

Having way too much fun with my Morrowind data project, and learning a ton along the way. Build the things that interest you, and don't avoid the tricky stuff!

Aussie Aussie Aussieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee we're pretty good at this cricket thing hey 🏏

I'm gonna need one of Zed and Linear to change their icons, having them side-by-side in my dock is very confusing

So I've been hacking away on my little Morrowind data project on and off for a few months now, and its coming along super awesomely. 🥰 ... I just realized that I also need to make a Skyrim version, for when Skywind (eventually) comes out 🙀

Hah, BlueSky has blocked access to DMs without age verification.

I just completed all 12 days of Advent of Code 2025! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com #ElixirLang

This is the most batshit conference presentation I've ever been part of. Zach announces something for Ash, as per usual, but let's just say that's mostly the backdrop.. goatmire.bold.video/v/e37me #goatmire #elixirlang

TIL: LiveView assigns change tracking gets a little bit funky around form inputs that render as `type=“hidden”`. It won’t send `unused ` flags, so your components might not re-render when you expect them to! #ElixirLang

I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

Next 0.5% of my epic cross-stitch project done, this is 17.5%! It's good to just chuck some cricket on the TV, or an audiobook on my phone, and just stitch away in the evenings. Very relaxing. (bonus zoomed-in photo so you can see just how many different thread colours go into making such detail 🫠)

It's happeningggggggg! #AdventOfCode

Recently discovered the enjoyment of listening to audiobooks while I cross-stitch. Got to the last few chapters of my first book and then Spotify tells me that I’m out of listening time for the month 🫠

Finished the year of bowling with a respectable 485 series, and my team finishing probably 7th. Not bad, not bad. 🎳 Barely missed out on getting my fifth 200 game for the year. Next year I'll try for five.

It’s a good day to be an Aussie cricket fan! 🏏 (Obligatory “lol England”)

One day I'll be able to concentrate on my side projects for more than about ten minutes 😓 I keep starting and restarting and restarting

Time to roll up the fabric and start on the next column of pages! (yes this is being stitched sideways because my scroll frame isn't wide enough to stitch it the right way around)

Having a bit of fun lately asking Claude to explore my app ideas by asking me questions, and then creating wireframes/prototypes. I haven't tried actually building the apps yet though, that's the hard part 😅

Friday afternoons are the best time of the week, when the whole weekend stretches in front of you and it feels like everything is possible

Decided to play my PS5 for the first time in ages. First I have to update the system software... Then I have to update the *controller* software.... Then I have to install game updates.... I might get to play soon....

I picked up my cross-stitch project again last week, and hit a tiny milestone today so I thought I’d post another photo :) This is officially 16.5%! (Yes I’m celebrating every 0.5%…) Pattern: Treasure Hunt Bookshelf, artwork by Aimee Stewart, charted by Heaven and Earth Designs

I wrote up some notes about the recent Ash Summit, in Varberg, Sweden alembic.com.au/blog/reflect... #AshFramework #ElixirLang

Whew, Bobby Akart's Ring of Fire series was a rollicking read. Many volcanoes. Much disaster. Nature is awesome

today I learned how to write my name in Hangeul ✨

Feels pretty surreal to finally be holding the Ash Framework book in my hands. Thank you to everyone (especially @zachdaniel.dev and the team at @pragprog.com) who helped make this happen!

Better late than never, but I'm finally enjoying a long weekend on the couch watching Bloody Game 2 - and Dex is back yeeeeeeeeeeah I am totally on team Dex

One of my Discord accounts has started nagging me for age verification - I guess I have one less Discord account now. No I will not upload my government ID to Discord, thank you very much

If you missed out on Goatmire Elixir, read about what an awesome event it was (and don't skip it if it runs again!!) underjord.io/conference-r...

Last Call! The PragProg flash sale ends today! 45% off all books/audio (except The Pragmatic Programmer). Code: flashsale -> pragprog.com

If you haven’t picked up the Ash Framework book yet, there’s never been a better time - it’s fully content complete, and this is the biggest discount it will have! pragprog.com/titles/ldash...

Holy freaking jetlag 😭 Infinitely worse when coming home than when travelling away

Just backed this - if you use Erlang, Elixir, or any BEAM language, consider chipping in to make the whole ecosystem better!

Todo list: * Become a paid member of the EEF * Back rebar4 on Kickstarter * Add a security policy and automated tools to my open source projects #goatmire #ElixirLang

#Goatmire #Elixir Take 35% off all Elixir, Nerves and related titles Just use code Goatmire2025 (Only at Pragprog.com#Goatmire

Achievement unlocked in Sweden: Nearly got flattened by a speeding cyclist

Packing a suitcase to go on a trip is awful. Why do I have so many clothes? And why do I have to pack them all just in case?

Celebrating Ash Framework by Rebecca Le and Zach Daniel, now in print! 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4mVClik 🔗 Book club: elixirbookclub.githu... 📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/... 📘 print: tinyurl.com/ashframe... #AshFramework #Elixir #WebDev #FunctionalProgramming

And I thought I was doing weird things, parsing Morrowind game files to be stored in a database - this guy ls like stuff it, let's just convert them into Elden Ring game mods! 🤯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=n89N...

Dear social media apps - I just want a goddamn chronological feed of content from people I follow. That’s it. Why is this so bloody hard???

Two weeks after starting to use HabitKit to make myself do some Japanese study every day, I've cleared my massive backlog of overdue Wanikani cards (which was over 500). Next challenge, maintain it and finish clearing the Marumori backlog...

After 25 years we finally get an mixed international season of Survivor and I am *here for it*!

Achievement unlocked: in a Google Meet, managed to screen share the little dialog box that says “do you want to share this window?”

At the risk of getting into "it doesn't matter which tool you choose, its more important to just *start*" - what are folks using for tracking habits these days? The tick-off-every-day-don't-break-the-streak type habits?

Why does Kayo show more cricket than Foxtel does, when they are owned by the same company and Foxtel is like 3x the price??

Cinder v0.5.0 has been released, with fixes for array fields including a new `match_mode` option - select records where any or all of the array values match the filter! hexdocs.pm/cinder/

I scored 11/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. (Admittedly most of them were guesses)

<me on Thursday> hmmm do I feel like trying to reverse engineer Unity asset bundles to extract some images... <@barnabasj.bsky.social> that might be a good question for Claude and so I spent the next three days mucking around and got all the glorious data I wanted and its so beautiful

It’s impossible to get everyone on the internet to agree on anything. But *everyone* on the internet thinks that Channel 10 fucked up by firing JLP from Australian Survivor!

What’s with the latest version of Firefox on macOS, and why does it take 100% of my CPU just existing with no tabs open?