Amazon Echo Show uploading data constantly

8 Feb 2023

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...

Chrizzle-Mizzle

16 Dec 2022

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...

CTO Confessions: Episode #27

13 Apr 2021

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...

Moving from Medium to Jekyll

12 May 2020

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...

Infrequent Miscellany Update

27 Mar 2020

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Infrequent Miscellany #5

26 Nov 2019

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...

Hello (again) Firefox

21 Nov 2019

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...

Infrequent Miscellany #4

28 Oct 2019

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...

My current podcast subscriptions

25 Oct 2019

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...

Git commit messages

18 Oct 2019

A recent post from David Thompson, My favourite Git Commit, hit the top of Hacker News today and I thought I should jot down a few thoughts. When working on a small project alone, the...

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