Archives

Here is the old archive of articles dating all the way back to the 29th of June 2011.

• Doppler 2 iOS local music player

  Doppler 2 is a full featured music library app for iOS

• Easy ad-blocking via iOS 14 profiles

  How to easily block ads on iOS 14 via profile

• Menu bar apps MacOS

  My recommendations for MacOS apps in the menu bar

• New Year, New Blog 11ty

  Switched the blog from Gatsby to 11ty

• Dual Screen with Duet Display

  Need a second screen when working from home and you have an iPad

• Roll your own WireGuard VPN with PiVPN

  Now it's very easy to setup your own WireGuard VPN on your a Raspberry Pi

• Gluten Free Pancakes

  Gluten free pancakes made with chickpea flour

• Test Automation Workshop

  Some key take aways from the Test Automation Workshop I attended

• New Zealand's Cheapest Mobile Plans

  What are NZ's cheapest mobile plans

• Mojave macOS on an old Mac

  Get the latest macOS on your older unsupported Mac

• Lifx bulb

  A cautious first step to home automation

• Raspberry Pi Airplay Receiver

  How to make your Raspberry Pi into an AirPlay receiver

• Fixing an iPhone 6

  How I repaired an iPhone myself

• Write and Publish on the Mac

  M.G. Siegler describes his workflow for writing for the web

• Hosting Static Websites on AWS

  AWS is a great platform to host a static website, here is how to use Cloudfront and S3 to achieve this

• Internet Parenting

  Parenting in this modern age is harder now then ever. I share some tips to shield your kids from the bad.

• An Almost Ad-free household

  How to rid yourself of advertising on the internet

• Raspotify

  Raspotify is a great package to install on a Raspberry Pi to turn it into a Spotify Connect client that just works

• Pi-hole whitelist for New Zealand

  A list of URL's I've had to whitelist for apps media apps in New Zealand

• Bitbucket Pipeline

  Bitbucket Pipeline - Your own personal docker builds in the cloud

• Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers

  An article on the team behind the great open source project Pi-Hole

• Wordpress to GatsbyJS

  How and Why I migrated from WordPress to static JAM Stack site built with Gatsby JS.

• The Internet Apologizes

  Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong — from the architects who built it.

• Facebook data breach hits 63,714 New Zealanders after 10 people download quiz

  Ten New Zealanders who downloaded an app on Facebook could have exposed up to 63,714 of their compatriots to the data mining tactics of Cambridge Analytica.

• A Privacy First DNS

  Cloudflare launch a privacy focused DNS

• New Year, New Blog

  New year, new blog running on Gatsby

• VS Code can do that

  All the best things about Visual Studio Code that you didn't know

• TVNZ App for Apple TV

  TVNZ app for Apple TV

• Why Does Sweden Have so Many Start-Ups?

  Stockholm produces the second-highest number of billion-dollar tech companies per capita, after Silicon Valley

• The Shorter Your Sleep, the Shorter Your Life: The New Sleep Science

  ...once people know of the powerful links between sleep loss and, among other things, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and poor mental health, they will try harder to get the recommended eight hours a night...

• The Coming Software Apocalypse

• Cross Platform development with VS Code

• Clipy a replacement for Clipmenu

• How the Wealth Gap Affects New Zealand More Than Anywhere Else

• You Are the Product

• Social Media Is The New Smoking

• Recreate React from the ground up

• Design Your Personal Growth

• High Performance React: 3 New Tools to Speed Up Your Apps

• I Got Hacked and All I Got Was This New SIM Card

• Stealing Your Way to Original Designs

• Facebook, for the First Time, Acknowledges Election Manipulation

• TVNZ to Live Stream Free-to-Air Channels

• Announcing TypeScript 2.4 - Dynamic Import Expressions

• How AI Will Affect UX (and Vice Versa)

• Sega Forever Brings Sonic and Other Classics to iOS

• Community Update: Unsplash Branded License and ToS Changes

• What to Expect From JavaScript ES2017 - the Async Edition

• Google & Facebook, the real spy networks

• How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication on All Your Online Accounts

• Winter of Xamarin 17

• Google Hires Veteran Chip Designer Away From Apple to Build Custom Chips for Pixel Smartphones

• 6 UX Design Mistakes Costing Companies Millions

• A Complete Guide to Switching From HTTP to HTTPS

• The Company Behind WordPress Is Closing Its Gorgeous San Francisco Office Because Its Employees Never Show Up

• An Introduction to the `fr` CSS Unit

• With New Browser Tech, Apple Preserves Privacy and Google Preserves Trackers

• Facebook is Broken

• React-Sketchapp - Painting with Code

• Best of Build 2016 Conference

• Extended lease of life for old Macs

• The iPad whats it good for?

• Letterboxd app for iOS

• Replacement "Duck Heads"

• Movies 2016 to February

• Electron Wrapper

• React.js Conf 2016 Highlights - Day 2

• React.js Conf 2016 Highlights - Day 1

• Sideloading Apple TV apps

• FLUXless architecture?

• DVD authoring adventures

• TW64 fitness tracker review

• Prototyping tools compared

• Getting started with ReactJS

• Setting up a NAS

• Update iOS Sketch 3 Templates

• Mobile Couch tips for iOS development

• Prepare for iOS 9

• Getting experience with Swift

• Siri Remote Only Available in Eight Launch Countries

• Twitter, weighing up the noise vs good

  I weight up the noise vs the good on Twitter

• Android hardware makers stare into profitless abyss

• Moving Swiftly Too

• Angular developers sigh with relief

• What is a senior developer?

• The Auckland Fibre situation

• Kiwis winners in phone plan price war

• Life After Cancer: How the iPhone Helped Me Achieve a Healthier Lifestyle

• Charles proxy is your friend

• Working remotely from home for 6 months

• The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work by Scott Berkun review

• Hardkour - a great runner puzzle game

• Using VSCO Cam for iPad

• Weekend Wrap-up 9th November 2014

• Weekend Wrap-up - 2nd November 2014

• Long Weekend Wrap-up - 27th October 2014

• Manage your server from your iPhone

• Easy iPhone screenshots with OS X Yosemite

• Copying files from iOS to OS X via FTP

• Scanbot named best document scanning app for iOS

• Greatest Office Perk, No Office

• iOS 8 Release Day Roundup

• Minecraft sale to Microsoft

• Great Measurement Plugin Dimensions for Chrome

• Should I get a new iPhone 6

• iPhone 6, 6 Plus and Apple Watch initial thoughts

• My iPhone Home Screen - August 2014

• Self Quantifying

• Preview CSS on your live site with Charles proxy

• Redesigning the 2 Degrees Mobile iOS app

• Create a rapid prototype with Marvel

• Remote: Office Not Required - The Best Bits

• SASS extension for Kerning fonts for the web

• Black Pixels employees remote working tips

• Supercharge Responsive Web Design with BrowserSync

• New look blog design

• App Store Rejection

• Icons for iOS 7

• Choosing to ignore email

• A life lived outside of technology

• Post-analysis of a competition

• Help me win a mid-air wedding!

• Mac App store creating a new platform for UI design tools

• Find your passion

• Remove the blog cruft

• Non native apps - yuck!

• Glass is inevitable

• Podcasts for developers and designers

• The Designer-Developer spectrum

• The iPhone Tab Bar

• Please Stop Fighting About Your Smartphone

• Rapid prototyping tools for front end devs

  Some great looking tools for rapid prototyping. With these tools you can quickly get your designs on to multiple devices.

• Links for web developers and designers 13th March 2013

• Links for web developers / designers

• New Responsive Theme

• Best Mac and iOS apps of 2012

• Clipboard history, why isn't this baked in?

• Create a 301/permanent redirect on Apache

• Time validation in ASP.Net MVC using a regular expression.

• Using LESS CSS - a programmable stylesheet language

  Using LESS for CSS

• Bungy jumping, engagement and learning a whole lot of tech

• Perfect Pixel and Pixel Perfect browser plugins

• Facebook Page Photo Gallery plugin for WordPress

• Custom share and tweet buttons for Facebook and Twitter

• Travel hacking Air New Zealand

• Running incompatible/out of date add ons in Firefox

• Javascript (jQuery) sliders round up

• CSS3 and my toolset

• Slides for WDCNZ 2011

  Slides from WDCNZ 2011

• 404 page with CSS 3 animation

  Custom 404 page with CSS3

• Fireworks plugin to make favicons (with quick guide)

  Found a great fireworks plugin to create a favicon

• WordPress setup using addon domain on HostPapa

  Just a few quick tips when setting up Wordpress using an addon domain on HostPapa

• Kia Ora Bro!

  Welcome