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Latest — 02 May 2026

Three Custom Mattermost Plugins

As I mentioned last post, I love Mattermost, self hosting its open source Teams Edition for myself and friends as a private replacement for Slack or Discord. Like Slack, it is extensible with plugins, so with the time saving aid of Claude Code (without which these just wouldn't

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Replacing Slack

I remember back in 2014 and earlier, at various work places we used various group instant chat platforms, which were fine; but then a little startup called Slack came along. It absolutely nailed the group instant chat user experience - everything about it was just nicer to use than the

Ghost's Activity Pub Support

As promised last year, Ghost did deliver Activity Pub support. I decided to wait longer and let other people figure out the magic that I needed, and as expected some other lovely people had sorted out and written up what needed to be done.

Self Hosting a Blog With Ethical Analytics

Having figured out where and how I'm going to host my personal services, it was time to pick a blogging platform with an ethical analytics option. Ghost with Plausible fit the bill.

Digital Sovereignty: Infrastructure Choices

On my choosing how to self host services: *where* to host them, *how* to host them, touching on reliability and backups.

Starting Digital Sovereignty

On moving away from US based SaaS and taking control starting with this blog itself with a move to Ghost.

Thoughts and Analysis on COVIDSafe

As a way to help track the spread of COVID19 throughout Australia, the Australian government has rushed to market an app called COVIDSafe. Having data on COVID19 infections is a good thing, knowing when you have been in high risk of a being infected by a contagious person will enable

Alfred Dropbox Snippets Workflow

I'm a big user of the macos utility app Alfred - its an amazing replacement for spotlight - but so much more too (go check it out if you don't know what it offers). Amongst other things, I have a good collection of URLs to animated

Static Blog Time!

Because I rarely post anymore - indeed rarely use this domain apart from my personal email, I decided it was time to simplify. So I've migrated from WordPress to the Pelican static site generator and cleaned up the place while I was at it for relevance. I'

Android Dev First Impression - WTFOMGBBQ

So I'm setting up the android SDK to play with, installing the Google "Android Developer Kit" which contains a modfiied Eclipse preconfigured with the android SDK. OK sounds good. Except on creating a new empty blank project it throws errors and I can't build