Sharing Images, Canvas and HTML using the Web Share API Using the Web Share API to Share all the Images
Building a Snowpack Website on Github Pages Run Snowpack builds for a Github pages site on every push using Github Actions
Aussie Foods Americans are Missing Out On I dive into what foods I think my American friends are really missing out on from the Land Down Under.
Building: Market Cap Leaders tldr; made a new website showing the top companies in the US sorted by market capitalization. Market Cap Leaders. On Friday I did a search to see the top companies
Benjamin @ 23 Wow has this been a big year. I'm now married, I've visited a bunch of places and I wrote a bunch of code. Another birthday, another birthday blog post. Last
thegoodstuff The Good Stuff - Neapolitan Pizza Finder Over the last month I've been working on a new project called The Good Stuff. The premise of the idea is that when browsing restaurants on Yelp or Google, you're
Benjamin @ 22 Time again for another birthday blog post! Looking back at what has happened in the last year and where my interests are still at. Recent Happenings Proposal By far the
birthday Benjamin @ 21 Wow, a whole year has passed, and very little blogging in between. But here is my annual birthday post where I show general what interests I have and where I'm
Facebook Chat Downloader I enjoy using my personal data to create cool applications, and one of the richest data sets many people have are their online conversations. Most of mine are through Facebook Messenger. In the past however there has been no simple way to fetch this
Year 8 to Microsoft in 5 years TLDR; Started university at the end of year 8, completed a masters degree and was hired into an internship at Microsoft aged 18 (followed by a full-time position a year
Geohash Notification Service TLDR; https://geohash.kaiserapps.com I've started a project to scratch yet another itch of mine, it's a geohash notification service. For the unacquainted, this is how geohashing works: credit: Randall Munroe - xkcd How my service works is very simple: Visit: https://geohash.
$12 laptop stand from Bunnings components When surveying the options for laptop stands out there, they ranged from anywhere between $50 and over $100. My requirements weren't hard, I just needed to elevate my laptop to
Benjamin @ 20 It's this time of year again, and now I have officially left my teenage years to embark on my early 20s. The post just shows generally what I'm into at
Rocket League soon launching for Linux and SteamOS Rocket League have tweeted they will be releasing the SteamOS version in approximately 6-8 weeks Back around April last year, rumours were spreading that the mega-popular game Rocket League, involving a bunch of cars kicking around a giant soccer ball, would be making it's
Socket.io + Nginx results in 502 bad gateway So I was debugging one of my servers today and I was trying to work out for the subdomain I had setup it just didn't want to load the websockets over the websocket protocol and was giving me the following error in Chromes console:
Benjamin @ 19 This is a repeat of the blog post I did last year on my 18th birthday and I am doing it yet again on my 19th. It just shows generally
Unimelb VPN using OpenConnect on Arch Linux Tonight I had to download some data from the unimelb servers for an assignment, however from home you have to connect via vpn to access the "nutmeg" unix server I needed (you can't access them directly over the internet). To do this,
Mailpile. An Open Source Web-Based Email Client **UPDATE 2016-01-03:**There is a mail client called Nylas N1 Over the last maybe year or so I have been plagued with a problem, I use as my mail client under Linux, and for the most part, it works okay, it does it's job.
Benjamin @ 18 To all my blog readers, this will be a rather boring post. It is simply a publicly viewable snapshot of things in my life on my 18th birthday. If you
How To: Set a Webpage as a Screensaver in Linux I have wanted this feature for years. Back when I used OSX, there was a plugin I could use that allowed me to set a webpage for my screensaver. Today I finally found an implementation doing the same thing in Linux. It was implemented
Why I Moved to i3 from wmii This is just a short post to sum up why I have recently moved from to . In short it came down to these reasons: wmii is not wmii has a couple of bugs that really annoy me, and won't be fixed (see 1) i3
My killer i3 setup tldr; I moved to i3 just over a week ago, and since then I have been adding more and more features. Some of them just bring back wmii functionality, and some just make i3 all the more awesome. Here is a short list of
Dynamic Tagging in i3 I have recently been using as my window manager and there was one feature I was missing from that I really loved, dynamic tagging. So I did some google-ing, asked on IRC, but no one seemed to have a solution. So I tackled it
Express.JS res.sendfile for special characters I came across a strange issue this week while working on whereby if I ran: res.sendfile(filename) It would work for the majority of my music library I had scanned, but it would not work for ones containing a % (percentage) character. After filing
