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career / work (13)

Startup versus Big Tech: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - April 22, 2026
Story Points Aren't the Problem - July 26, 2025
What is my idea of a dream job - February 08, 2024
Level Up Your Pull Requests: The Value of Individual Commits - November 27, 2023
Unlock your career's potential with effective 1:1 meetings - September 13, 2023
Laid off: Reflections and Lessons learned - March 30, 2023
Making Code Reviews Stress free by adapting Netlify's feedback ladders - November 18, 2022
Interviewing interviewers: Must-haves and deal-breakers list - October 06, 2022
What's in a team name - October 06, 2022
Do you need a mentor or a coach? - September 27, 2022
Increasing Productivity with No-Meeting Days - August 03, 2021
Do not come with a problem without a solution is harmful - December 16, 2020
Why do I interview even when I am happy at my job? - October 15, 2020

opinion (18)

Finding the best credit card in New Zealand - January 05, 2025
Should I Rent Or Buy a House? - September 16, 2023
Product Review: NDepend - September 13, 2022
Kobo vs Kindle: Which e-reader to buy? - September 01, 2022
Merchant using Stripe Declined credit Card: What to Do - December 31, 2021
Migrating from Gatsby to Statiq - August 16, 2021
How can we apply Storybrand to how we communicate at work - June 10, 2021
How long did it take to migrate from WordPress to Gatsby? - November 25, 2020
Should you make an Impossible List or a Bucket List? - September 15, 2019
Why and How I migrated my website from WordPress to Gatsby - August 29, 2019
Why you should compete in Fantastic Bits @ Codingame - November 23, 2016
Review: Takapuna Car Clinic, Auckland - November 24, 2015
Product Review: Paper Boat Drinks - April 04, 2014
Why I am building an Asteroid clone as the next game - December 23, 2013
10 things to do when getting started with 3D programming - December 16, 2013
What does making Pong take? - December 08, 2013
Why being an only child is awesome - December 02, 2013
A review of SmokeHouse Deli, Bangalore - November 25, 2013

programming (78)

A Clean Way to Mock Upstream APIs Inside Your BFF Service - August 20, 2026
Defining Good: Why Your Engineering Team Needs Testing Guidelines - June 09, 2026
Rolling Your Own Dependency Injection in Unity - March 24, 2026
Offset vs Cursor Based Pagination - April 07, 2025
Fun with (Feature) Flags - September 06, 2024
Unity CI/CD Demystified: Part 4: Deploying WebGL Builds to GitHub Pages - August 07, 2024
Unity CI/CD Demystified: Part 3: Build with Linux - August 07, 2024
Unity CI/CD Demystified: Part 2: Trigger Events and Running Tests - August 07, 2024
Unity CI/CD Demystified: Part 1: One-Time Setup - August 07, 2024
Cleaning Up Unnecessary Remote-Tracking References - August 06, 2024
Verifying Method Calls within a class using Mockito Spies - August 05, 2024
Workaround for Unity Personal License Manual Activation Not Supported - May 07, 2024
Transitioning from C# LINQ to Java Streams - June 25, 2023
Feature Flags: Removing Unused Methods on Cleanup - April 14, 2023
How To Disable Buttons In Unity - February 06, 2023
How to echo commands as they are executed in a shell script - December 10, 2022
How to add an image as a camera background in Unity - November 19, 2022
How to add estimated Reading Time to Posts in Statiq - September 10, 2022
How to load test data from a JSON file for xUnit tests - September 10, 2022
Installing NuGet packages in Unity 2021 - September 06, 2022
Essential Plugins for JetBrains Rider plugins - August 24, 2022
Organizing Unity projects to make them testable - August 17, 2022
Stubs vs Mocks vs Fakes vs Spy - August 08, 2022
A better naming convention for unit tests - August 04, 2022
How to restore lost commits using git reflog - July 28, 2022
Make Git forget about committed files in .gitignore - July 06, 2022
Fix the Language version error for Unity projects in Rider - June 29, 2022
How to host a compressed Unity WebGL game on Netlify - June 22, 2022
How to batch rename multiple files in subfolders in Windows - June 20, 2022
How to Serialize enums as strings in .Net Core - June 16, 2022
How to set all bits of an enum flag in C# - June 09, 2022
How to replace a word in a string in C# - March 30, 2022
How to programmatically unregister a service worker - March 23, 2022
How to Secure Graphql Subscriptions with Redis ACLs - December 21, 2021
Adding Graphql Subscriptions with HotChocolate and Redis - November 11, 2021
How to move a commit between repositories - November 04, 2021
How to change the author of multiple Git commits - October 28, 2021
How to calculate reading time - October 07, 2021
How to Upload Multiple Files to AWS S3 using Terraform - September 30, 2021
How to replace a pipeline in Statiq - September 23, 2021
Deploy a Statiq website using Tailwind CSS to Netlify - September 16, 2021
Add Tailwind CSS to a Statiq website - September 09, 2021
How to override the netlify build config - August 23, 2021
How to run SQL Server in a Docker container - June 29, 2021
How to set up the project properties for Source Generators - June 23, 2021
How to reset the primary key sequence in Postgres - June 03, 2021
How to automatically set the access token in Insomnia - December 04, 2020
How to draw on a page using react hooks and typescript - September 26, 2020
How to use terraform to process SQS messages in a lambda - September 19, 2020
Add a billing admin user to secure an AWS root account - July 25, 2020
How do you upload a PDF received from an API to AWS S3? - July 15, 2020
How to stop and remove all Docker containers - May 27, 2020
How to get TimeZoneInfo on Windows and Linux - May 06, 2020
How to publish email bounce notifications to an SQS queue - April 29, 2020
How to use ApprovalTests with xUnit's Theory attribute - March 18, 2020
Dapper and NPGSql : Write a query with the IN operator - March 11, 2020
Deploy a Gatsby site on a schedule with Azure Pipelines - January 17, 2020
Terraform: Create an SNS topic for SES in a different region - January 10, 2020
How to deploy a Gatsby site to Netlify using Azure Pipelines - January 03, 2020
Embed a YouTube video with 16:9 aspect ratio and full-width - December 18, 2019
How to automate the creation of a new blog post - September 12, 2019
How to add an RSS feed with images to a Gatsby site - August 30, 2019
Create custom type definitions for JavaScript dependencies - August 23, 2019
Testing endpoints protected with an XSRF token in Postman - May 17, 2019
A guide to securing git commits from tricking you on Windows - September 10, 2018
Solve Edit(Levenshtein) distance with Dynamic Programming - May 22, 2017
Solve Longest Common Subsequence with Dynamic Programming - April 09, 2017
A guide to getting started with Dynamic Programming - March 27, 2017
How to prevent the compiler from copying an object in cpp - January 22, 2014
How to setup WordPress locally: Installing WordPress - January 15, 2014
How to setup WordPress locally: Installing phpMyAdmin - January 08, 2014
How to setup WordPress locally: Installing MySQL - January 01, 2014
How to setup WordPress locally: Installing PHP - December 25, 2013
Setup WordPress locally: Installing an Apache Web Server - December 18, 2013
A guide to finding memory leaks using macros in C++ - December 11, 2013
How to start using Dynamic-link libraries (DLL) - December 04, 2013
Setting up the project properties for Game Engine Project - November 27, 2013
How I structure my Game Engine project - November 20, 2013

project updates (27)

WordXplorer Update 15: , Alphabetic Keyboard Layout and updated Notification Texts - August 02, 2026
WordXplorer Update 14: New Theme and Cleaner UI - July 03, 2026
WordXplorer Update 13: Updated Flip Animation - April 02, 2026
WordXplorer Update 12: Demo Build & Teacher Feedback - March 17, 2026
WordXplorer Update 11: New Theme - February 05, 2026
WordXplorer Update 10 : Fireworks, Levels, Polish - January 06, 2026
WordXplorer Update #9: Save your guesses - June 08, 2025
WordXplorer Update #8: New Hint System - May 10, 2025
WordXplorer #7: New Video & Food Theme - October 22, 2024
WordXplorer #6: New Look, Major Fixes & App Store News - September 02, 2024
WordXplorer #5: UI Refresh - August 19, 2024
WordXplorer #4: Levels, Fireworks & Fresh New Look - August 05, 2024
WordXplorer #3: 100 Words, Help Button & Roadmap - February 03, 2024
WordXplorer #2: TestFlight Approved, New Colors & Instructions - October 16, 2023
WordXplorer #1: 20 Words & Play Again With Random Levels - August 07, 2023
'Codinators.XunitHelpers Nuget Package: Update 2 - October 23, 2020
Codinators.XunitHelpers Nuget Package: Update 1 - February 28, 2020
New Release: Codinators.XunitHelpers Nuget Package - February 21, 2020
Breakout Clone v1.0 - January 30, 2019
JAH Update 7 - June 14, 2018
JAH Update 6 - April 08, 2018
JAH Update 5 - March 07, 2018
JAH Update 4 - February 05, 2018
JAH: Update 3 - January 04, 2018
JAH: Update 2 - December 21, 2017
JAH: Update 1 - December 18, 2017
New Side Project: JAH - December 13, 2017

retrospective (10)

WordXplorer One Year In: Am I a Millionaire Yet? - January 13, 2026
2023 - Q3 Retrospective - October 30, 2023
Postmortem for Spring Challenge 2020 (Codingame AI Contest) - May 20, 2020
A postmortem for Ocean of Code (Codingame AI Contest) - May 02, 2020
PostMortem for Codingame AI Contest: Coders of the Caribbean - May 08, 2017
A postmortem for Fantastic Bits (Codingame AI Contest) - December 15, 2016
A postmortem for The Accountant (Codingame AI Contest) - October 19, 2016
A postmortem for Hypersonic (Codingame AI Contest) - October 05, 2016
A postmortem of the Asteroids clone - February 05, 2014
A Postmortem of Mpong - December 09, 2013

travel (25)

USA Road-trip - June 27, 2022
New Zealand Escapes: KiwiRail - TranzAlpine Express - March 15, 2016
New Zealand Escapes: Photo Essay - Mount Maunganui - February 23, 2016
New Zealand Escapes: Tauranga - February 16, 2016
New Zealand Escapes: Waitomo Blackwater Rafting - February 09, 2016
New Zealand Escapes: Waiotapu Thermal Wonderland - February 02, 2016
New Zealand Escapes: Tamaki Maori Village, Rotorua - January 05, 2016
New Zealand Escapes: Hobbiton, Matamata - December 22, 2015
New Zealand Escapes: Auckland Seaplanes - December 01, 2015
New Zealand Escapes: Northland - Part 2 - October 27, 2015
New Zealand Escapes: Northland - Part 1 - October 20, 2015
New Zealand Escapes: Piha Beach - June 30, 2015
New Zealand Escapes: Rangitoto Island - June 09, 2015
Photo Essay: Diwali in Auckland - November 03, 2014
Desert Safari - January 31, 2014
Atlantis The Lost Chambers - January 24, 2014
Understanding Islam inside the Jumeirah Mosque - January 17, 2014
Dubai Fountain - January 10, 2014
At the Top: Burj Khalifa - January 03, 2014
Abra and Souqs in Dubai - December 27, 2013
A visit to Wafi Mall - December 20, 2013
Dubai Dolphinarium - December 13, 2013
Visiting Greenwich and taking a ride on London Eye - December 06, 2013
Walking Around in London - November 29, 2013
Roaming around in London - November 22, 2013

Uncategorized (5)

How to add ligatures and cursive fonts to VS Code - May 16, 2021
How to export highlights and annotations from a Kobo Aura - December 25, 2019
How to filter yourself from showing up in Google Analytics - January 29, 2014
How to setup WordPress locally: Introduction - December 19, 2013
The Beginning - November 19, 2013

weekly roundup (53)

Weekly Roundup 53 - January 16, 2022
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Weekly Roundup 13 - December 01, 2019
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