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Protect Your Shed

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +1000

Constructing a skyscraper is a massive undertaking. You need architectural blueprints, council permits, and safety audits before the first piece of steel is even ordered. It requires hundreds of people coordinating over months or years. You can’t just throw up some drywall and hope the building holds weight.

Then there is the backyard shed. No blueprints, no permits, no audits. You just grab some timber, a saw, and start hammering. It might be a little drafty, and the roof might leak if it rains too hard, but you built it yourself in a single weekend.

Building a GBA Emulator in Go

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100

Before you read on, stop and play for a second. What you’re seeing here is the emulator written in Go running inside of WASM inside your browser, everything here is local!

Controls: Z=A, X=B, A=L, S=R, Enter=Start, Backspace=Select, M=Mute

Leg Amputation

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1100

Today I finally after much effort completed my cycle trip. Today was probably the hardest of them all but that probably just makes it all the more worth it, right.

I started today off with an early start having already decided to do parkrun in Otsu. I planned the route around doing this months ago so by this point I couldn’t let old me down and had to go for the run, even if I knew I was going to pay for it later. The run was nice and the sun was out and shining, making the “Sunshine Beach” parkrun really work for its name.

Back on the road

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1100

Yesterday was a rest day because I bailed on previous plans to head to Tsuruga so was instead now in Takashima for two nights. I also needed to buy more spare tubes thanks to the flats I got the day before. My legs were quite thankful for the rest day as they are starting to feel quite heavy and tired.

I knew today was going to be a long day, although it was going to be quite flat, so the plan was to just head out and slog out the distance. The ride started out riding through the last of the farms and villages that I would experience before eventually heading back into civilisation where it felt comparatively like I was in the middle of the city.

Stranded in Takashima

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1100

Today has been almost the opposite experience to what I had days ago. The day had started well with an early wake up and strolling ride through the farms and villages of the quiet Nagahama as I took the 5k ride to the nearest konbini. I stocked up on some more water and grabbed myself some breakfast before heading back.

I had finally got the camera working I had thought so I was excited to get back on the road and start filming the adventures. There was no one else at the guesthouse except for me so I just packed my bags and sent the host a message saying I had left. I headed off for the mountains and was having such a peaceful and joyous ride that I had forgotten to start my watch. If it wasn’t for the power save notification I don’t think I would have ever noticed.

Ah, the serenity!

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1100

Today can best be described serenity. Not only because the farms, plains, mountains, and the lake surrounding me were all beautiful and peaceful, but I stopped in to purchase two spare inner tubes so I was mentally at peace as well! Today I discovered the true peacefulness Japan’s countryside has to offer, seemingly leaving civilisation altogether.

This morning started out quite calm. Unlike yesterday I had gotten up early enough to stop into Lawson to buy a quick breakfast and stock up some water for the ride, a lesson harshly learnt before. There was no rain, but the sun wasn’t burning down either so I was looking to a rather calm ride without needing to worry about the weather too much.

The Plains of Shiga

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1100

This morning I woke up and had been dreading getting up and leaving since last night. I had gotten a puncture while I was strolling along the lake’s edge and after walking the bike back and placing in garage I knew I would have to fix it in the morning. The garage was small, and the guesthouse was small and intimate so I decided to just checkout and I would fix it before stating my ride.

The Mighty Hills of Otanacho

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1100

Today was the first day of my Lake Biwa bicycle adventure. I woke up nice and early, eager to back on the bike and set off towards Ōtsu.

I first picked my bike up, the lady at the shop was so lovely, we were talking how the weather will be very good which is a change from all the rain there has been recently. We almost forgot my helmet but luckily she remembered just as I was leaving and called me back.

Tilted Tokyo

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1100

I write today’s post perched on a step along the Dotonbori River in Osaka after a short two days in Tokyo. The streets are busy, the crowds are out, and there’s a nice smog of bbq smoke that has settled on the river.

Today I spent most of the day travelling, on trams, trains, and the Shinkansen, ready to start my cycle around Lake Biwa from tomorrow.

Tokyo started by meeting up with the remainder of the devhouse group after we had checked into the airbnb. Our first stop was a nice little cafe run by a very chatty man. Amongst many of the conversations we had with him, he gave us some recommendations for some food and drinks we could get that night, we were eager to try them out.

Matsushima and a cruise in the ocean

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1100

Despite a fairly rough and tiring day yesterday, the sun gleaming into my bedroom at 7:30 in the morning was enough to wake me up from a short sleep and to kick start my day.

Today we decided to head down to a town a couple train stops away that had been recommended by friends because of its scenic bay views. A stop in the conbini as a natural waking action for an iced coffee started the day before we packed our bags and headed out.

The great migration

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1100

This morning I had a sleepless night as my immense excitement for travelling to Japan grew. I woke up nice and early and finally started packing my bags, I almost couldn’t find my passport last night so I was a little stressed but I knew it would be fine.

My first stop when we got to the airport was to head down to the lounge. I had a pass that I had linked and so it only made sense to get the most bang for my buck and start drinking some beers. I smashed down 3 and then headed to board the plane with Bailey and Damian where I planned to down some more inflight.

devhouse 2!!!

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1100

As I write this I’m getting the last of my preparations in order for the next devhouse trip which starts from this Sunday! After last years success, I think this year is going to be at least as fun and exciting.

I’m excited particularly this year for the variance in adventures that each member of devhouse will be embarking on, and I think this will lead to a lot of interesting stories at the end of our trip.

12 Months On: Self-Hosting

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +1000

This is kind of a review on the past 12 months since moving my cloud hosted services to all self-hosted, and the sequence of upgrades and changes to my homelab throughout the process.

After a few months of increasingly larger GCP bills, and a final month of accidentally leaving a Cloud Workstation running for a little too long, I decided to give the old self-hosted world a try again after having most of my projects running somewhere in the cloud for the past 5 years, and seeing if I could pull off a $0 GCP bill by the end of the next month.

Japan in Film 2025

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +1100

A short escape from home’s warm weather to the cold of Tokyo, Mt Fuji, and the snowy quiet of Sapporo.

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Adding GPUs to Docker Swarm and Running GPU-Enabled Services

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +1000

Introduction

This guide will walk you through the process of attaching GPUs to a Docker Swarm node and running services that can utilize these GPUs. This setup is particularly useful for running GPU-intensive workloads in a distributed environment.

Assumptions

You are running a recent version of Ubuntu (Noble 24.04 LTS in this case).
You have NVIDIA drivers already installed (preferably the -server version).
- If not, follow the instructions at Ubuntu’s NVIDIA driver installation guide ↗ .
You have the NVIDIA Container Toolkit installed.
- If not, follow the instructions at NVIDIA’s container toolkit installation guide ↗ .
You have Docker and Docker Swarm already set up on your system.

Steps to Add GPUs to Docker Swarm

1 Identify Your GPU

First, we need to find the UUID of the GPU you want to attach to Docker Swarm.

App debugging not in prod

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +1000

Building a Game Boy Advance emulator has gotten difficult, currently stuck on what appears to be I/O Registers not outputting their correct values and when a game is loaded in the gamepak, the device runs into a boot-loop.

Investigating memory data and it’s meaning is difficult, converting binary data to something meaningful, then tracing that to another address if it’s a pointer and the cycle repeats. Doing these steps for every CPU cycle to investigate how data is changing is cumbersome and led to the project collecting dust for a few months as I gained the courage to dive into this.

Self-Dependant, Self-Hosted GitHub Runners

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +1000

On the journey of self hosting, one thing I want to get automated and running locally was my deployments. Having all of my services defined as Docker Compose services would be ideal. Wanting to keep this configuration held in GitHub, alongside my other code, this raises the next question, how do I propagate these changes to my local machine and redeploy my services?

My initial thoughts were to try to find a CI/CD platform that was able to be ran as a self-hosted setup, and also support Docker deployments, specifically supporting Compose as I wanted to keep my configs simple and familiar.

Go range over funcs

Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +1000

Following discussions and read throughs on the following proposal, I hadn’t fully understood what the use case for this was or what the value of being able to range over functions would be.

spec: add range over int, range over func · Issue #61405 · golang/go
Following discussion on #56413, I propose to add two new types that a for-range statement can range over: integers and functions. In the spec, the table that begins the section would have a few mor…
GitHubgolangGo Wiki: Rangefunc Experiment - The Go Programming Language
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Self-hosted traffic ingress

Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +1000

A quick snippet of my docker compose config for managing traffic ingress into my self-hosted setup.

Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnel is being used to manage forwarding traffic from the public internet to my machine as I didn’t want to expose my network directly.

Exiting the tunnel, cloudflare has been setup to direct all traffic to traefik:80 which is exposed on the ingress network.

Based on rules defined on each service, traefik will the route the traffic to each of those services:

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +1100

Good morning! Today I write this entry alone because yesterday was officially the last day of devhouse. We started off the day by cleaning up the house and packing our bags. Damian and Bailey had already left in the early hours before we woke up.

Once devhouse was all tidy and our bags were all packed, we said our fairwells to the house and locked the keys away. Our first stop for the day was to go straight to the train station and book tickets for the Shinkansen back to Tokyo as James, Elise and I all had the be back there.

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +1100

Good day! Yesterday was a bit of a slower day. I had a bit of a sleep in after another huge night the previous day. I woke up at around midday and went for the daily morning walk to the nearby conbini to get my day started.

After some time James, Elise and I went for a walk to grab some lunch. Though when were getting food James got distracted on the way and ran to go on the ferris wheel. Elise and I just went to the conbini to get some lunch and went back to devhouse.

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +1100

Good morning! Yesterday was another big day. When I woke up I still had a headache from the night before and I woke up early at 7am because I couldn’t sleep. I was surprised when I got up and not even Damian was awake yet, normally he is first, but he did get up not long after.

I spent the morning hanging out at devhouse while doing some coding on the devhouse website. I needed to fix a few bugs but it also turned out I had created some more so that was fun!

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +1100

Good morning. Yesterday was a late start for the day because I had been up until 4am the day before drinking strong zeros at devhouse. When I woke up Damian had already left to start his day. He likes to get up early and go exploring, I wish I had that energy. It had been a few days since the last time I had gone for a run, and knowing the weekend was going to be busy I planned to go for a run today.

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +1100

Good morning! Yesterday we spent basically the entire day at Universal Studios. It was amazing! Learning from last time, I knew we needed to get there early so that would could reserve a time slot for Super Nintendo World before it all got sold out. We left devhouse before 9am so that we could get there early and then the first thing we would do when we got there was reserve the slot.

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +1100

I have forgotten to post for a few days I have been busy coding. Sorry.

Monday night we went to akihabara.

Tuesday shibuya.

Wednesday night we caught the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Osaka. We checked into our booking and found a nearby yakinuki and whiskey bar where we’ll be spending a lot of time.

Today we head off to Universal Studios.

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +1100

Today was a bit of a rest day after a big night last night. I stayed in devhouse and wrote my blogs for the past couple of days.

For dinner we went to have some yakinuki and it was delicious. We had one of the servers come at point and he cooked a massive slice of delicious beef. It was the best piece of meat I have ever had.

I later went for a quick 5k run near our airbnb and I went to rainbow bridge. The bridge is so big, it was amazing.

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +1100

This morning we started the day early, preparing ourselves for a huge day ahead. We had already booked a pub crawl for tonight yesterday, which would take us late into the night, and I had promised that I would do parkrun in the morning, starting my day early. My alarm went off at 6am, I was not ready. Alas though I pulled myself out of bed and was greeted by an already awake James who said he’d be joining me for parkrun.

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +1100

Good morning, this post comes from the day after because I forgot/was too tired yesterday to manage to pull together a post.

We started the day by landing into Tokyo in the early hours of Friday morning, approximately around 5am in the morning. It was a rough start. I had maybe 2-3 hours of sleep on the plane, though it was very uncomfortable because the seats are so small and I am so large so I didn’t get too much rest.

Japan in Film 2023

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +1000

A collection of film images taken on my Canon F-1, purchased during a trip to Japan in 2023.

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