diy
Bikes
Especially bikes where I live, which means Sydney at the moment
2014-11-10
– 2023-05-26Dropbox if you must
2015-01-02
– 2023-05-20Secure Scuttlebutt
Social media for off-the-grid
2020-11-18
– 2023-05-07Academic publishing
2015-07-07
– 2023-05-01How to do research funding
2015-06-28
– 2023-04-14Online collaboration tools
2020-06-01
– 2023-04-13Indyweb, small web, cozy web
2020-03-05
– 2023-04-13Webmail systems
2022-04-18
– 2023-04-05Offline email syncing
with bonus email wrangling
2020-12-30
– 2023-04-05Static websites
JAMstack etc
2014-12-29
– 2023-04-02Fashion
Theory and practice of hip garments
2020-07-10
– 2023-03-27Online whiteboards
2020-08-26
– 2023-02-27Web API automation
2020-06-04
– 2023-01-31Web scraping
Turns out we can get information off the internet
2016-06-17
– 2023-01-24Models of inequity
Sharpening the fuzzy process of bias, discrimination and inequity
2017-08-13
– 2023-01-19Melbourne
Australia’s culture sweatshop
2021-10-18
– 2023-01-15Fediverse
Mastodon et al.
2019-08-12
– 2022-12-28Synchronising files across machines
Dropbox for Dropbox haters
2015-01-02
– 2022-12-12COVID-19 in practice
SARS-CoV-2 to its friends
2020-11-25
– 2022-12-07Queerness
2021-05-06
– 2022-11-06Electric cars
2014-11-10
– 2022-11-05How to do research careers
2015-06-28
– 2022-11-04Timeless works of art
Aesthetics as a conditional average treatment effect
2015-01-12
– 2022-10-07Squads
Small scale collectives
2022-06-25
– 2022-09-25Physical infrastructure
2022-09-24Containerized apps (for scientists)
Doing things that previously took 0.5 computers using 0.4 computers
2015-11-05
– 2022-08-29Apptainer
Containerized apps for research
2015-11-05
– 2022-08-22Academic blogging workflow
Minimising the friction of advertising my thoughts in order to maximise the chance each thought gets advertised. Not covered: maximising quality of thoughts.
2020-05-22
– 2022-08-07Urbanism
Stuff about cities
2014-12-25
– 2022-08-06Virtual private mesh networks
Pretending your phone is on your LAN
2017-04-15
– 2022-07-30Music gear
Pragmatic digital amps and microphones
2014-08-26
– 2022-07-19Astroturf and artificial reefs
On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
2016-01-13
– 2022-07-03Comfy GNOME shell
Sparing thoughts for the desktop whatsit favoured by the thoughtless
2019-08-13
– 2022-07-03Betting
2017-05-09
– 2022-06-27Gender identity
Political and/or empirical engagement therewith
2017-08-13
– 2022-06-25Designing less toxic social media
2020-07-12
– 2022-06-11The Illawarra
The cheaper bit underneath Sydney comprising Wollongong etc
2022-05-27Funerals and other end-of-life stuff
Services, enduring guardianships, wills, burials cremations, esp in New South Wales
2022-05-21Linux audio
Making sound by banging rocks together 44 thousand times per second
2018-04-23
– 2022-05-01Social media if you must
Harm minimisation for corporate social network users
2017-04-05
– 2022-04-21Life-adjusted quality years
Whether to come to our party, if you like parties
2022-03-11
– 2022-03-15QR codes
Subtitles for robots
2019-10-30
– 2022-03-06Sydney lifestyle theme village
The sunniest mortgage farm in the Southern Hemisphere!
2019-03-05
– 2022-02-28DIY VPN access point
2020-08-16
– 2022-02-21Audio sample management
2021-09-14
– 2022-02-19Window management in macOS
2020-10-06
– 2022-02-13Tiling window managers
Desktop management for Tetris fans
2019-08-13
– 2022-02-13Sexual ethics and institutions
2020-06-07
– 2022-02-07DIY
Artisanal poverty, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms
2018-03-26
– 2022-01-20Docker containerized apps (for scientists)
Doing things that previously took 0.5 computers using 0.4 computers
2015-11-05
– 2022-01-19Synchronising config files across machines
2015-01-02
– 2022-01-11Calendars and contact databases
2015-06-25
– 2022-01-08Stickers
Printouts that you do not lose because they are adhered to a very large thing
2020-01-31
– 2022-01-05Apple laptops
Wish list, hi-fi
2019-02-12
– 2022-01-05Bundled/ packaged apps for Linux
On unifying the existing 3 app distribution stand ards by adding 3 additionll app distribution standards 12
2019-08-09
– 2021-12-02Sydney food suppliers
Practical bulk budget Sydney gourmet
2016-10-15
– 2021-11-25Trading, hedging and portfolios in practice
2017-05-09
– 2021-11-18Decentralized net services
a.k.a. web3, DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend; Internet for an untrustworthy world
2017-09-18
– 2021-11-15Trousers
2020-09-05
– 2021-10-27First aid
If you are checking this webpage while your colleague bleeds out, you are doing it wrong
2019-02-12
– 2021-10-22Printing
Offline backups that do not need batteries
2018-10-03
– 2021-10-11Localhost dev server
Your own little fake internet
2018-11-26
– 2021-10-06Hygienic masks
Medical/anti-infectious masks
2020-08-01
– 2021-09-20DIY social networks and groupware
V. cypherpunk! much 733+!
2019-08-12
– 2021-09-05Home networks for lazy dummies
2020-08-16
– 2021-08-19X11, Wayland etc
The other antiquated windowing system
2019-08-13
– 2021-08-18Virtual private networks
More options for internet privacy
2017-04-15
– 2021-08-12Risk neutral measure
2021-10-15
– 2021-08-08Unix/linux distros explained as bikes
2021-08-02
– 2021-08-02Burning bootable USB drives, SD cards etc
2021-05-23
– 2021-05-24Audio sample libraries
2015-09-17
– 2021-04-22Online collaboration
Remote work
2020-06-01
– 2021-02-03Browse the internet for me
Introducing modern automation to the ancient handicrafts of serfing the web and tilling the clickfarm
2016-06-17
– 2021-01-07Sun protection
2018-11-21
– 2020-12-10Alternative file managers
2020-10-04Virtual machines for curmudgeons
On pretending to have hardware using software
2015-11-05
– 2020-09-21Homo ludens
Play
2014-10-29
– 2020-09-08Link rot, mitigating
2020-05-27Screen capture and screen casting
2016-10-20
– 2020-05-19Garden hacks
2019-10-08
– 2020-04-14Hygiene, empirical
2020-02-21
– 2020-04-06Internet for the occasionally online
Intermittency in your bandwidth not in your sanity
2017-04-09
– 2020-04-01DIY internet infrastructure
2019-10-27
– 2020-03-17Faking being on social media
and other parts of the internet too boring to countenance
2016-07-21
– 2020-03-11Cheap single board computers
Raspberry pi et al
2015-09-10
– 2020-02-09Smartypants cities
2014-12-25
– 2019-11-05Sneakernets
Intermittent connectivity, mesh networks and the Honda protocol
2015-10-03
– 2019-09-09Go bag, Sydney edition
2019-08-26Sandboxing apps
Upon letting strangers into your house, just so long as they don’t open the door to that one forbidden room
2019-08-09
– 2019-08-18Installations (in galleries etc)
2016-08-21
– 2019-07-13Making and its discontents
Also repairers, innovators, maintainers, disruptors and sustainers, but not passive consumers
2018-09-24
– 2019-05-24Internet for the marginally online
2019-04-20Low impact fashion
Suiting australia
2019-04-18Csound
a less irritating audio programming language
2017-03-06
– 2019-03-07Field Programmable hardware and ilk
2018-10-03Facebook messages pro-forma response
It doesn’t work but it’s worth trying
2018-04-28Diversity in Electronic Art
2016-09-01
– 2016-08-23Scarce urban resources
2015-10-16How to make crazy experiment on sound design (sic)
2015-09-17Mixing and mastering for dummies
2015-04-05