Home automation, part 1 of some?
First some background; Rob and I bought a house late last year and since then we have been working on setting up the smart-house systems we want. We have been doing this while waiting for tradespeople…
New website (and blog) for 2026
New year, new website I have spent the past few days preparing this new version of my website. In addition to being the new location for my blog it is also intended to contain information about projec…
Subplot and FOSDEM 2022 talk
As many of you may be aware, I work with Lars Wirzenius on a project we call Subplot which is a tool for writing documentation which helps all stakeholders involved with a proejct to understand how th…
Subplot - First public alpha release
This weekend we (Lars and I) finished our first public alpha release of Subplot. Subplot is a tool for helping you to document your acceptance criteria for a project in such a way that you can also pr…
Withdrawing Gitano from support
Unfortunately, in Debian in particular, libgit2 is undergoing a transition which is blocked by gall. Despite having had over a month to deal with this, I've not managed to summon the tuits to update G…
Broccoli Sync Conversation
Broccoli Sync Conversation A number of days ago (I know, I'm an awful human who failed to post this for over a week), myself, Lars, Mark, and Vince discussed Dropbox's article about Broccoli Sync. It…
The Lars, Mark, and Daniel Club
Last night, Lars, Mark, and I discussed Jeremy Kun's The communicative value of using Git well post. While a lot of our discussion was spawned by the article, we did go off-piste a little, and I hope …
Subplot volunteers? (Acceptance testing tool)
Note: This is a repost from Lars' blog made to widen the reach and hopefully find the right interested parties. Would you be willing to try Subplot for acceptance testing for one of your real projec…
Rust 2020
As in recent years, there was a call for posts about Rust in 2020. I've been sitting on my response for quite a few weeks because every time I try to write this, I think of other things I want to say,…