Kind of a strange post from what I usually post, but the last few months I have been addicted to entering online competitions. The fact I have won a few great prizes in just a few months probably helps. I won a runner up prize which was an LG television and then I won a … →

Ads have never sat well with me. For a while I have had them on this blog, because it gets a lot of traffic. However, inspired by Troy Hunt, I have decided to remove the Google ads and instead start a Patreon page where anyone can pay a monthly amount to “sponsor” me. By no … →

Update: Site is operational and working again. The last couple of months this blog has grown tremendously. Even though I have caching and other performance tweaks in place, the server my site runs on is surprisingly barebones. The traffic to this blog is around 100k visitors per month, the single core CPU just wasn’t cutting it … →

Switching banks is a big deal. I have been with ANZ since I was about 14, it was my first bank that my first job salary went into. But times change and now I’ve switched to Westpac. Whom I also got a mortgage through as well. There were many deciding factors, but a couple of … →

I recently moved house and while I wait for my Telstra cable connection to be sorted (address issues) I got myself an Optus home wireless broadband modem which is 4G based. For $80 per month I get 200gb of data at capped speeds of 12/1mb. One problem I encountered however was Netflix wouldn’t work for … →

Everyone knows coming up with an idea is often the easiest part of an application. I come up with a lot of ideas on a regular basis, too many some would say. What is the best way to take an idea and actually build something usable, a working MVP (minimum viable product). I recently released … →

As promised, I have open sourced my quick Aurelia CLI project Pokego.run which you can find here if you just want the code and don’t want to keep on reading. I am open sourcing the work I have done on this because I want to see the Aurelia Javascript framework grow and I realise there … →

I work a lot, so it was nice to get some downtime to play with the Aurelia CLI. Like many others of my generation, I have been caught up in the Pokemon Go hype. So I decided to build a simple app where you can plot where you have found Pokemon called: Pokego.run. The idea … →

I have been toying with an idea I have had for about 5 years now. The idea is rather simple: Airbnb meets yard advertising. The idea is to allow homeowners to rent their front yards to businesses who want to place a sign for a fee. The idea came about after seeing businesses who put … →

As Youi’s advertisements say: At Youi, we get you. Spoken by a smug looking guy with a face you can’t help but want to punch (I’m sure he is a nice guy, maybe). After my recent experiences hunting down insurance for a brand new car, I have come to the conclusion that Youi are a … →