Tena koe, I'm Chris. I'm a software developer and contributor who lives in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.
I have a plan.
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Discovering local devices using HASS
Apr 22, 2025What systems are connected to our home network?Tags: homeassistant, homelab -
Our Friend the Computer
Apr 8, 2025A delightful podcast exploring alternative computing histories and their relationship to society -
Reporting from Composer to Dependency Track from Gitlab CI
Nov 25, 2024Gathering and analysing component usage from CI jobs using Dependency Track -
Showing Composer dependency changes on MRs from a CI job
Nov 12, 2024A job to use `composer-lock-diff` to report on dependency changes in merge requests -
Check Chrome connectivity in Gitlab CI
Nov 12, 2024Quickly check Chrome connectivity in a Gitlab CI job -
Lighthouse browser crashes
Aug 26, 2024Runtime error encountered: Browser tab has unexpectedly crashed. -
Highly legible fonts
Jun 13, 2024Reading clarity. A discovery to share.Tags: typography, accessibility -
Extending your access - JWT validation failure and auth bypass
May 18, 2024Trusting JWT-supplied data from Google sign-in means checking the signature. -
Preparing a video from OBS to MP4
May 18, 2024Redacting data from a screen recording is an absolute chore. -
Let's get cooking: Drupal Recipes
Mar 22, 2024Recipes presentation notes and video - Drupal South 2024 -
Yakfilling dates
Feb 4, 2024Adding date properties in Markdown yaml frontmatter to an existing set of files based on filename. -
SensorWatch days of the week in reo Māori
Nov 11, 2023Localising a CASIO F-91WTags: casio, sensor watch -
Debugging a Sieve detail that was confounding me
Sep 12, 2023Always look for ways to reduce time to test. -
PatchWatch progress report
May 29, 2023 -
What patches are we running?
May 19, 2023 -
Dependency Track
Nov 10, 2021 -
Drupal Core Patches With Lando
Sep 13, 2021A quick and easy workflow, it turns out!Tags: contribution, opensource -
Renovate - Automated update MRs
Oct 27, 2020Hand that boring update MR task off to a new teammate, RenovateBot -
Gitlab's Directed Acyclic Graph functionality
Jul 14, 2020A small speed boost for CI runs, but a minute less wait time is worth it -
Behat, Drupal and related tools
Jul 7, 2020A quick intro to how I'm using and recommending Behat + Drupal -
Drupal configuration management and sensitive credentials
Jul 4, 2020Where am I going to stash these creds? -
Blackbird nest & rPi cam
Dec 4, 2015not tagged -
KoalaSafe first impressions
Nov 13, 2015not tagged -
Dunedin, let's fly the flags
Sep 28, 2015not tagged -
South Dunedin Flooding
Jun 13, 2015not tagged -
Trajectory, 2015
Feb 19, 2015not tagged -
2014 Year in review
Jan 6, 2015not tagged -
Cloudspotter
Oct 10, 2013not tagged -
Political sites speedtested (again!)
Jul 8, 2013not tagged -
PGP in Parliament.
Jun 28, 2013not tagged -
Hello Pete & CiviCRM.
Jun 28, 2013not tagged -
Friday night, delighted.
Jun 28, 2013not tagged -
NZ673 flight deck
Jun 5, 2013not tagged -
Letting go is easy
Apr 5, 2013not tagged -
CiviCRM upgrades via Vagrant
Apr 5, 2013not tagged