Yorrike

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:45:10 +1200

I’m wholly unimpressed that over the last 2 years I’ve become a PostgreSQL expert. Psql was always the other DB. I’ve always been happier in MySQL or SQLite. But just like vi over eMacs, the OSS community and their corporate backers chose the other as the default.

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:36:03 +1200

My iPad Pro from 2020 has been pretty unusable since I broke the screen and had it replaced. So instead of paying NZ$500 to have it replaced again, I bought a base level A16 big standard iPad for NZ$520 off TradeMe. No Face ID, but otherwise it’s just perfectly good. Who really needs an Air or Pro?

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:45:26 +1200

Aaaaaaand my Apple Watch has died. It started with continuously trying to call emergency services last night. Gave it a charge, rebooted it and now the Apple logo appears for 3 seconds and then it turns itself off. Sigh.

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:00:35 +1200

I watched the last two seasons of The Boys: Season 4: Boring and pointless, even at 1.75 speed Season 5: Just bad - it felt simultaneously rushed and like it was wasting my time. A rare feat. And the conclusion was wholly unsatisfying. ★★☆☆☆

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:50:53 +1200

That was, without a doubt, the most boring WWDC keynote I’ve ever watched.

Sun, 31 May 2026 16:13:23 +1200

Maybe 45 km of biking, no matter how cruisy, is a bit too much for ~27 hours. I feel my internal battery is nearing empty.

Sun, 31 May 2026 09:24:17 +1200

I’m trying to get through watching The Boys, but it’s just painful to watch and it’s one of those shows I have to pause multiple times due to it weirdly invoking anxiety. I don’t like it, but there’s discourse I want to dive in to.

Thu, 14 May 2026 20:54:50 +1200

I feel like I probably should try Mastodon again. But I really can’t be bothered. I’m connected enough.

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:16:43 +1200

In Star Trek The Original Series there were 7 main characters. In TNG there were 7 (8 including O’Brien). DS9 had 8. Voyager had 8. However shows like Game of Theones has hundreds. The Witcher has dozens. It’s too many people to keep track of. People lose track and interest.

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:22:27 +1200

After buying and using a keyboard with a knob, all keyboards without, feel incomplete. On its own, volume up and down and mute when pressed. Hold down a function key, screen brightness and pause play when pressed. Another function key, keyboard brightness and colours.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:07:30 +1200

I got excited there’d be another episode of Starfleet Academy to watch this evening but then remembered the season had finished and then I was sad. Monarch Legacy of Monsters just does scratch the sci-fi itch.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:27:37 +1200

If your website only works in Chrome, it’s not a website.

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:51:32 +1200

Tech frens: what’s a, preferably free, certificate signing authority I can use for creating an https certificate?

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:35:50 +1200

I didn’t bother with The Witcher season 2. It started with “last time on The Witcher”, and I remembered nothing. But now I’ve started watching it again and it’s actually good. One thing of note, I have the lowest resolution Netflix, but even I can see the edge of the contact lenses they’re wearing.

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:42:30 +1200

Now that Linux is getting popular with the normies and gamers, there’s some gate keeping Harold hardcores who are running Free BSD as a desktop operating system.

Don’t do that. That’s a silly idea. No one’s impressed. You’re using all the GNU tools anyway, with a lot more hassles.

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:00:27 +1200

Looking forward to running my AI first company using blockchain and and accepting only crypto, based entirely in the Metaverse.

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:35:52 +1200

I’ve been using Linux for around a quarter of a century. I used it on the desktop, in the early 2000s, until I switched to using a Mac (a 2005 or 6 12" powerbook). This week I installed Kubuntu with KDE Plasma on an old laptop. And my god, it’s the real deal. It’s surprisingly good. Maybe I switch?

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:34:21 +1200

There’s two things keeping me on iPhone:

iMessage
Universal clipboard

I would like to experiment with running an Android phone but those two thing, and especially iMessage, will keep me on iOS forever more.

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:37:00 +1200

🖖🏼 I thought Tilly was going to be in Starfleet Academy…

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:37:31 +1200

Hmmmm… should I renew? I’ve been on regular paid Duolingo for years, but that this isn’t enough for the “Max” tier and their firing everyone and relying on AI garbage, I’m sceptical.

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:23:16 +1200

By the noodley appendage of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the flailing tentacles of Cthulhu, why does anyone use Windows server? Windows. Server.

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:39:52 +1200

How Did The World Get So Ugly? - YouTube

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:32:33 +1200

So it turns out, since it’s all lithium ion, that “disposable” vape batteries can be used to power a house.

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:22:52 +1200

I closed my Twitter account 2 years ago, as of yesterday and I have absolutely zero regerts.

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 12:00:01 +1200

I want to start reading books again. But I want to do it on a device like a Kindle. But I don’t want to give Amazon a single cent. Any recommendations on how to do this?