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Twenty-one years of band names typed by hand leaves a fossil record of human inconsistency. Here's what it took to tidy up the Matinee Idle archive.

Fediverse federation, email subscriptions, Mastodon comments. No database, no cookies, no trackers. What I built on this blog, and what I left out on purpose.

A love letter to Matinee Idle, a cult radio show, and the rabbit hole it sent me down. With 21 years of archive data, 15,411 songs, and one very strange most-played track.

This blog is now on the fediverse. No algorithm, no intermediary, no one else's platform. Here's why that matters and how to follow along.

Te Ara Tupua opened on 16 May. Using two existing sensors at the path's southern entry, here's what the first week looks like — and what the wider WCC network tells us about cycling trends in Wellington.

I used six years of Wellington weather data to fix the rules on Can You Beat Wellington. Turns out some seasons just don't have good days, and Wellington doesn't have 4 seasons.

An easy 3 ingredient feijoa ice cream recipe. No fuss, no complicated steps. Perfect for using up feijoas in season.

In 2024 I used Lovable (then GPT Engineer) to build a hobby weather app in an afternoon. In 2026 I finally looked at what it had actually generated. The findings were instructive.

What happens when you give the job seeker their own AI agent? I built one to find out, and learned a lot about RAG, Claude, and weekend projects along the way.

After two years on WordPress and AWS Lightsail, I rebuilt the site using Next.js, Vercel, and GitHub. No database, no CMS, just Markdown and deploy.