How I Learnt to Fail Better
I suck at failing. It’s not exactly something they teach you. We’re conditioned to be so focused on getting to the fi...
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Posts
opinion
7 Random Things I Wish Android Had Next
Given the evolution of the modern day mobile OS we’ve grown accustom to things we never cared about before.Android wi...
Forget New Year's Resolutions. Just Answer These 4 Questions
There’s nothing worse than starting the year with a list of expectations. Forget making that same old New Year’s Reso...
Comic: Technique #1 in Fixing 'slow' computers
So I’ve figured it’s easier to make a point with pictures better than a blog rant, and pictures are easier to digest ...
What Do You See?
Making machines think is extremely difficult. This is because we don’t really know ‘thinking’ really is to begin with...
Anyone Can Write Code. Good Coders Rewrite.
I’ve never been happy with what I do. This is both good and bad.I think it has something to do with a bad history wit...
Goodbye Facebook. Hello Google+.
We all have had the experience of considering whether or not to add someone on Facebook. Your work colleges may not a...
Happy Arbitrary Date to you Too
It’s that time of the year again. The end of it.Time is an amazing phenomenon. Our desperate attempt to measure the a...
Some Thoughts on Word 2010 and Issues in OSI Layer-8
Woke up this morning with with 0 blood alcohol to discover my laptop right next to me saying the Office 2010 beta 2 h...
Bubbles Concept
I was recently showing a co-worker the Microsoft Surface parody when inspiration slapped me in the face. I loved the ...
Confessions Of A Note Junkie
Imagine if there were no search engines on the internet? It’s hard to even imagine what the internet would be like, b...
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apps
Newsfeed Dark Mode and react-sweet-state
Coding was a hobby before it became a way to pay the bills. I was always motivated to make something that was missing...
Newsfeed Beta Now Live!
A couple months ago I blogged about starting a project called Newsfeed. After six months of coding during my commute ...
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Posts
blackstorm-alpha
Blackstorm Alpha - Milestone 2 Teaser Video
I have to admit, Blackstorm (the jet game) has been on the backburner this year as I work more on other projects in m...
Friends And Foes
Given how much time I spend on my own personal endeavours, it’s a wonder that I still have friends. But who needs fri...
Community Feedback Portal
For any private beta testing for my projects I have a dedicated portal which handles feedback such as comments, tips ...
Some More Modelling
If I had to choose my favourite machine, it would have to be the F15-Active.I mean seriously, they made something as ...
Making Games Is Hard. Especially When You Keep Losing The Files
It’s not the first time I’ll be rewriting that whole crazy jet fighter combat simulator arcade thing.I came to realis...
Will It Blend?
I couldn’t sit around all day and use other people’s models for the flight game. So I set about learning how to make ...
Scrambling The Variant: It’s Time For Another Vid!
It’s been a few months since I started the making my own jet fighter game.From buying joysticks, to testing missiles,...
Procrastinate By Doing Something Productive
Some time back I came to a strange realisation.While most people are become highly creative given plenty of freedom a...
New Joystick, A New Video
Only a few days after investing in joystick to work on my flight combat game, I came to the stunning conclusion, “hey...
A new world
Two Mondays ago, I was bored in a lecture and pondered about making a flight combat game. Minutes later my lecture no...
Time to fly!
Having realised a few days ago that I was probably serious about writing a flight combat game, I thought it was time ...
If You Want it Done Right. Do it Yourself.
I love nothing better than a good areal dogfight. For years I longed for good titles in the flight simulator and comb...
1
Posts
car-pc
Caros, Infotainment System for our Cars
It was in the Autumn of 2009, long before Android Auto and Apple Carplay, when a good friend of mine, who had been pr...
3
Posts
feeds
Newsfeed Dark Mode and react-sweet-state
Coding was a hobby before it became a way to pay the bills. I was always motivated to make something that was missing...
Newsfeed Beta Now Live!
A couple months ago I blogged about starting a project called Newsfeed. After six months of coding during my commute ...
Newsfeed Concept
In the spirit of experimenting all the things and a personal yearly goal of focusing more on designs, I started work ...
8
Posts
gadgets
Killing Time with LaMetric
With Covid-19 restrictions easing as our state reached its vaccination targets, our family eagerly the checked the nu...
Ok, Google. You Win
My internal struggle with getting a smart speaker ended when my family bought us a Google Home Mini for Chistmas. All...
How Smartwatches Changed My Life
It’s been 90 days since Dee got me my Moto 360. I’ve had it on almost all the time and installed everything I could f...
With the Motorolla Defy, The Glass is Always Full
So my last phone one day decided it didn’t want to stick around till 2011, and thought it would be funny if it bricke...
Get Smart DJ and Other Features Back in Zune
Microsoft secretly removed the Smart DJ feature along with a few other things in the new Zune 4.2 update for internat...
Found an Old iMac Dumped Outside. Doesn’t Explode
Unbeknownst to family and insurance company, me and my mate were working on plans to build a Car PC (obviously with t...
Zune Player Software Updated to 4.0
This morning I woke up to a new update of the Zune player. Of course you probably have no idea what a Zune is.New Zun...
The HTC Magic, In The Hands of Yours Truly
Imported right from the waters of the ‘bay, it fell into my hands last night, and I’ve loved it dearly ever since.Beh...
1
Posts
its-time
It Is Time: For A Little Zen While Your Device Charges
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean introduced a neat feature called Daydreams, which are screensavers for your device while they...
2
Posts
jaywick-xyz
Starting Again, from the Ground Up—Welcome to xyz
So, I did it again. From .com on blogger to .io on Wordpress, I wasn’t happy with how little control I had with my pe...
The Labs Initiative
We learn so much from the experience of others – the tricks, the gotcha’s, the workarounds. Back in my first job as a...
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Posts
kalq
Kalq 1.0 - It's Time For An Update!
Over four years ago I complained about the skeuomorphic design of ordinary calculator tools on your average computer....
The Calculator Alternative is Here
After a few half-hours of cleaning up the code, and the rest of the time lounging and forgetting it existed, it’s fin...
Calculator Alternatives
Let’s face it. Calculators are awesome. Not only do they let us forget how multiplication works, comfort us in the pr...
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Posts
life
Hello World, Meet Baby Rory
A month and a half ago, my wife delivered our adorable blob of a daughter into this world. It’s been a chaotic but am...
Welcome Home, Pixel
My wife and I have always wanted to have both a cat and a dog. I’m not sure what led us to that dream but we’ve had o...
Wedding Planning in the Eyes of a Programmer
It’s been about a month and a half since I married my girlfriend of ten years, Dee. We planned the wedding ourselves ...
Introducing Our Newest Family Member
Her story is a little sad. Around her first birthday she became pregnant and was given up to a rescue. While taking c...
Kinetic Typography Video: Just The Way You Are
Kinetic Typography is a beautiful animation which involves flying text stylised to echo the meaning behind the words....
Mind the Cobwebs
I guess sporadic updates were expected when I set up this domain, but this just has to be ridiculous. I know I could ...
After 3 Months, We're Back on Track
Hey look Ma! It’s one of those posts about how the website’s got a new theme.My last few layouts weren’t what I wante...
Last Message from my Teen-ages
Monday tomorrow, May 25 of 2009, is going to start off with a three hour long lecture about how you can apply complic...
My Car Insurance: Good. Until Judgement Day
Less than a year ago I got my first car. And in the first six months I drove over 797 kilometres, none of which I can...
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Posts
opencity
OpenCity, Puzzle Meets Mobile City Builder Game
OpenCity is a puzzle meets city simulator inspired by the state of affairs with a microtransaction-filled click-and-w...
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other-projects
DriverLog, Learner Driver Companion App
As part of Transport for New South Wales competition I built a quick skeleton app for logging learner driver hours. U...
Sprintr, A Cross-Platform Tasks App
The way I handle my own person tasks has grown and to formalise the workflow I wrote Sprintr. Tasks go under a tree h...
Scrumr, Task Management App for the PC
Post it notes are fun and all for sprint planning but you gotta right digitise this. For my personal projects thus fa...
Scrumr for Android
Just as I used Scrumr for PC on my desktop, it was through Scrumr for Android I managed my tasks on the go.It followe...
Prime, The Alternative File Explorer
An alternative to Windows Explorer focused on organisation and situational awareness. Inspired by the Miller columns ...
ThoughtWorks LevelUp Game
Late 2013 I had the joy of being part of the biannual LevelUp workshops hosted by ThoughtWorks, here in Sydney. It wa...
Universe In Hand
Universe in Hand was a little program I worked on in high school which originally started off as a pixel generator. L...
Bright screens hurt my eyes
Maybe it’s because I’m a night person, or because I don’t have much natural light in my room. But I just like my scre...
Particle Simulations of Yesteryear
Whilst scouring my old hard drives looking for lost home videos, I uncovered this little gem back from my childhood.U...
Mango, The Android Flash Card Game
A quick app I wrote up instead of studying for my language class, the testing of which luckily engraved what I needed...
University Capstone Thesis
For my capstone thesis for my final year at university I looked at bridging the multitude of networks of sensors and ...
University Project: Medicine Dispenser
I was part of a large team chosen to setup a robot factory that would deliver casino chips into a tray and store them...
Vehicle Telematics Simulator
Given my experience with the Car PC project, I was designated technical lead for our advanced project for a difficult...
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Posts
pro-tip
Chocolatey Goodness on your PC
I started using Chocolatey the other day and now I can’t get enough of it. It’s basically yum or apt-get but for PC. ...
Start Playing Unity Project from Visual Studio
If you’re like me and use both Visual Studio and Unity, how many times have you accidentally tried to run the game fr...
Keep Certain Windows Always on Top of Others
How many times have you wanted a window to be on top of the screen while you do something else with another.You can g...
Star Ratings Missing from YouTube. How to Get Them Back
YouTube, out of nowhere, removed the star rating system which they believed was too ambiguous and useless, and opted ...
How to get your Vista icons back in Windows 7
Yep I did it.I have 3 machines at home and now all of them are running Windows 7 RC as their main OS. Amidst the awes...
Visual Studio WPF Designer Issue and Workaround
It’s one of those nights. The loved ones are fast asleep. You slowly un-entangle yourself from your wife’s loving arm...
4
Posts
university
Going For A Drive In The Simulator
So we designed the simulator, made the traffic move.About time we took it for a test drive.Some pictures of the world...
Traffic System For The Telematics Sim
Developing an intelligent vehicle system meant designing a vehicle simulator, which then meant we had to simulate the...
Designing The Vehicle Simulator
Whilst working with robots this semester, I also worked on a vehicle simulator for another subject as part of a negot...
Finally Some Robots To Develop On
I have to say working on this project was heaps fun. Sleeping overnight in the lab, the wonders of integration testin...
1
Posts
vizr
Developing The Power User's Best Friend
The app launcher on the desktop computer is the power user’s best friend. A quick shortcut key and suddenly you have ...