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  • How I Cut GitHub Notification Noise by Over 90% Using Gmail Filters

    Apr 30, 2025
    I receive over 300 emails from GitHub monthly, but only 9% required action. Here's how Gmail settings and search operators helped me focus on what matters.

  • Around the world, 2024

    Oct 27, 2024
    My partner Milla and I spent most of 2024 having a look around. We saw lots. We kept our friends and family updated with a blog.

  • Download Spotify Playlists on Your Mac with spotDL

    Jan 2, 2024
    Easily download your favorite Spotify playlists to your Mac, enhancing your music collection and DJ sets. This guide also includes an optional method for higher bitrate downloads.

  • Automate YouTube Playlist Downloads with yt-dlp for DJ Work

    Apr 17, 2023
    A quick script to download audio and videos from YouTube playlists onto your Mac, ready for VJing and DJing

  • This article is HOT Finish Line Fiasco: UCI's Paint Job Needs a Refresh

    Mar 7, 2023
    UCI regulations are not keeping up with these close finishes. Caleb Ewen may have been robbed of a victory and we would know for sure if the UCI updated their finish line marking rules

  • It's not the photo-finish operators, it's the UCI rules on how the finish line is painted

    May 5, 2021
    Let's look at De Brabantse Pijl to see if the photo-finish there was off too - and then make some suggestions to the UCI to solve these problems.

  • Simplest way to add Lazy Loading in 11ty

    May 4, 2021
    After a blog post of mine blew up, I was quickly heading towards Netlify's bandwidth limits. Lazy Loading images is an easy solution to decrease your bandwidth usage.

  • This article is HOT Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

    Apr 28, 2021
    Investigating the photo-finish of last Sunday's Amstel Gold Race. With millimeters separating the two riders does the photo-finish camera tell the truth?

  • Automating Facebook Marketplace - searching multiple locations

    Feb 22, 2021
    A quick script to use on Macs that searches multiple different locations for your search terms

  • Hacking my ISP to get every customer's personal details

    Feb 1, 2019
    Logging in to Australian internet provider Spintel's online portal sent my security senses tingling... there's bound to be a security hole here.

  • Ethereum PR accepted and merged into master (slight caveat)!

    Nov 29, 2018
    Don't mean to toot my own horn too much but my pull request got accepted - it's official, I'm an Ethereum contributor! But there's a catch.