Archive
2026
- Wests Fruit Cocktail
- Hakanoa Dry Ginger Beer
- Aroha Sparkling Feijoa
- Review: The Manager's Path
- Karma Drinks - Apple Juice
- Foxton Fizz - Pineapple
- Combining Canonical's Inference Snaps with Willison's LLM tool
- Review: Communication Patterns by Jacqui Read
- Review: Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge
- Review: The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly
2025
2024
- Review: Help! I Have a Manager! - Wizard Zines
- Review: Bite Size Bash - Wizard Zines
- Review: Become a SELECT Star - Wizard Zines
- GitHub "sync fork" silently failing
- Mobile Phones at Mahurangi College - Feedback
- Writing as a metaphor for coding
- Inconsistent public service efficiency
2023
- Asking ChatGPT for help, take 2
- Python return styles
- Kiwi PyCon 2023 - Waihōpai Invercargill - 15th-17th September 2023
- Top 5 Books That Should Be Movies
- End of an Era
- Reply: Designing Pythonic library APIs
- Experimenting with LLM coding help
- Top 5 MCU Villains
- Top 5 Power Chris's
- Review: The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
2021
2017
2016
2014
2013
2011
- Codea
- Textastic
- Prompt
- Cards (iOS App)
- SkyTV iOS App
- PyPad
- TomTom New Zealand
- Quarrel Deluxe
- Open source in government is not important
- VSM
- Bad Analogies
- Why "3 tries and you're locked" *weakens* security
- Top Five Film Trilogies
- Why the Government should ignore the People
- An actual problem with the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill
- Guilt if not denied, not guilt on accusation
- Possible gmail break-in
- More pitching (scifi.stackexchange.com)
- Figuring FAQ (scifi.stackexchange.com)
- Pitching (scifi.stackexchange.com)
- Dealing with recommendations (scifi.stackexchange.com)
- The Internet was built by sci-fi fans (scifi.stackexchange.com progress report)
- scifi.stackexchange.com
- Trac to iCal
- Sleep Cycle Alarms for Two
2010
- An odd message
- Displaying PDFs via the iPad
- D520 Week Three - 2010
- D520 Week Two – 2010
- Apple's Dog Food
- D520 Week One - 2010
- What happened to the 2009 IPy Notes?
- Latest MySky (HDi) update
2009
- Dr? No.
- More notes coming soon
- D520 - Week Six
- Mailbox flattening messages
- Forced Materialism
- D520 - Week Five
- D520 - Week Four
- Yet Another New Look
- D520 - Week Three
- Google Voice? Who really cares?
- My 2GB, 4 day 0.0.1 iPhone update
- D520 Week Two
- D520 Week One
- IronPython Course Notes - The Plan
- IronPython editor postscript
- Choosing an IronPython editor for teaching
- Useful / cute googling
- "Santiago" (Mike Resnick)
- "The Healer's War" (Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)
- "The Return of Santiago" (Mike Resnick)
- "The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch" (Pratchett, Stewart & Cohen)
- ta-meyer@ihug.co.nz, t-meyer@ihug.co.nz, tameyer@ihug.co.nz
- Graceling (Kristin Cashore)
- Foxmask (Juliet Marillier)
- Wolfskin (Juliet Marillier)
- Fallout (Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Deason)
- Resurrection Inc. (Kevin J. Anderson)
- S92A, and other thoughts on the revised Copyright Act
- How to waste $500M
- Talking Toasters
- Go raise your own children, please!
2008
- Hello, Telecom NZ, it's 2008 already...
- Time for change, indeed
- iTunes applications restricted to US store
- Universal Student Allowances Revisited (verdict: still bad)
- Vodafone subsumes ihug: can't handle Internet or phone
- 0759 for the hidden Sky menu
- iPhone works fine on prepay
- MacBreak Weekly almost killed me
- Hardly news, but: Vodafone NZ sucks
- Meterage
- Mahalo Daily Host Search (Follow Up)
- Tekzilla
- There is such a thing as "polite"
- Mahalo Vlog Idol
- Massey Weirdness
- Collective Knowledge
- New look
- Massey University: out of touch with the real world
2007
2006
- You catch more flies...
- Evil
- Delicious Library queries via SMS
- Apple Software Update for Windows
- I'm a dad!
- Yet More Honeypot Goodness
- SpamBayes 1.1a3 is out!
- py2exe & Grisoft's AVG
- Damn Apple and Thank You Apple
- Corrections to JGC's Spam and Anti-Spam Newsletter #37.
- Ah, podiobooks, anyone?
- PodShow Plus: Three strikes - they're out.
- SodaStream hits the US
- Another Honeypot Success
- More Baby Ultrasound Editing
- Checking for new podcasts at a specific time in iTunes (Windows)
- Distributed manual verification of a corpus
- Skype 2.5 (Beta)
- MySky Glitch
- Sharing OS X Address Books between users
- Arbitrary Toolbars in WinXP
- Google Calendar
- MySky is falling
- Is MySky "mature"?
- The Listener's Take on MySky
- Latest MySky Correspondence
- MySky Live Pause/Rewind Failure
- More about MySky Series Link
- Quoting and flormat=flowed
- Extracting video from baby ultrasound scans
- Gmail and SpamCop
- On the subject of MySky...
- Another MySky Failure
- NZ Herald MySky Endorsement
- Serious MySky problems
- Honeypot Success
- MySky "Recorded" changing to "Viewed"
- MySky Series Link Redux
- MySky Surrounding Space
- MySky Watching Tip
- MySky Interface
- MySky Playlists
- More MySky Loopthrough
- MySky Loopthrough Problem
- Initial MySky Impressions
- Getting MySky
- emlx Files
- Tools
- 2nd November 2005 Python-Dev Summary
2005
- Obscurity
- Universal Student Allowances: A Better Solution
- After Hours Sign-in Books
- Visiting Australia (Passport Requirements)
- Stability of email addresses
- Email Quoting
- Finding libstdc++.so.6
- The importance of priority
- Tagline
- About
- Flock