As best as I can remember, whenever I’ve asked myself what I really want from life, the answer has always come back, “I just want to sleep.” For some bizarre reason, which I’m going to ascribe to social conditioning for now, I’ve never taken this desire seriously. …

Simple Practical Notes for Starting Your Own Podcast — Summary Recording the Interview : Zoom Free for < 45 min interviews, or $21 AUD / month for longer Editing the Interview : iMovie on the Mac Free Getting a Jingle : Winter Wolf Media $330 AUD, once off Images for use in my Opening Sequence : Unsplash Free Creating an…

Including a demonstration of a Flutter Android TV app , showing how the “d-pad” (Android remote) can be accessed. — We just got one of these fancy new Android TV’s; And I’m a Flutter developer. I’d like to make apps that I can play on the TV. The thing to achieve first is deploying my own local app onto my Android TV. First Build the App Locally and Make It Available for Download Build an app that has the “d-pad” support…

Flutter version 2 is out, and it’s great! …. But for the next while we need to handle version switching. — Flutter version 2 is out, and it’s great! The null checking is an excellent feature that is going to force us to remove a whole class of run time errors. And the fact that we can now build our existing code into desktop apps is really interesting. But, there is a…

I received a rune reading from The Happy Viking today. About - THE HAPPY VIKING Welcome to my website and online shop! "Keeping the Old Skills Alive" Leatherwork, Rune readings and Viking living…thehappyviking.com.au It was full of exactly what I needed to hear, and I wanted to write it down somewhere to come back to and remember. So that is here now. Stop thinking. Especially about all that you have to do and…

== A Journal Entry == — == A Journal Entry == Unable to sleep so I thought I’d write an entry. I’m in a place with no internet (called Laughing Waters), so I’m writing this offline, but my intention for it I guess it to then publish it on Medium tomorrow. So much has happened since I’ve last done an entry. This…

There is no reason that even scientific research cannot be made to be engaging and gorgeous for users — With the release of the 𝚿 Psi Telepathy App this week, CoCreations sets a new standard in UX (user experience); creating a data collection app in a fringe and taboo area (psychic phenomenon) which is fun and exciting for people to engage with. CoCreations is unusual in this sense too…

Update 29 Dec 2020 — about the OCI I have had an unusually large number of views on this article — which I wrote while in the process of doing this migration — I feel an obligation therefore to add this update to let readers know that in the end I did not migrate our sites in the…

Look at the Data — I’ve always found Jordan Peterson’s denial of the patriarchy, which to me means systemic class structures, as a quite naive view. It’s made him a darling of the alt-right, despite his strong denial of feeling that association himself. When I found myself awake at 3am this morning (bed wetting incident…