Writing
The occasional longer piece.
- 29 Oct 2026
Pick two animals to defend you. A simulator and its history.
You've probably seen this. You're in an arena with: 50 hawks, 10 crocodiles, 3 brown bears, 15 wolves, 1 hunter with a rifle, 7 buffalo, 10,000 rats, 5 gorillas, 4 lions. Pick 2 to defend...
- 8 Feb 2023
Amazon Echo Show uploading data constantly
I noticed a few weeks ago that my kitchen Echo Show was constantly uploading data at about 1.5Mbps, which is not insignificant. I disconnected it from the wifi, and when reconnected it seemed to stop...
- 16 Dec 2022
Chrizzle-Mizzle
This article is nonsense, it was written by ChatGPT for the Chrizzle-Mizzle card in Don't Get Got. YOU GOT GOT. The origins of the term "Chrizzle-Mizzle" as a name for the Christmas period can be...
- 13 Apr 2021
CTO Confessions: Episode #27
I appeared on the CTO Confessions podcast with TC Gill, talking about how we sweat the hard stuff to make things simple for our members. Listen below. CTO Confessions · Episode 27: Making Car Hire...
- 12 May 2020
Moving from Medium to Jekyll
Over on the hiyacar blog I've written up how and why we moved that blog away from Medium to Jekyll hosted on Netlify and using Cloudflare workers to proxy through the main domain. Go check...
- 27 Mar 2020
Infrequent Miscellany Update
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- 26 Nov 2019
Infrequent Miscellany #5
Play Tetris & Snake in your browser, at the same time. This is hard, really hard! Good luck. A cool little macOS menubar app, Up Next, to show when/where your next meeting is. Space is...
- 21 Nov 2019
Hello (again) Firefox
I have recently returned to using Firefox as my main browser. I had been a Chrome user for many years. I switched shortly after it launched because it seemed much faster (remember when V8 was...
- 28 Oct 2019
Infrequent Miscellany #4
The relationship between time, the sun and the earth seems simple, but it is far from that. The blog post, Earth and Sun from Bartosz Ciechanowski, goes deep in to this relationship complete with many...
- 25 Oct 2019
My current podcast subscriptions
I listen to podcasts, a lot of podcasts. Over the last few years I’ve subscribed to a number of them that I listen to in the hours I’m travelling (after school dropoff, or commuting to/from...