Translating my Grandfather’s biograpy
My grandfather, Dr Kornelis Sietsma was a Dutch Reformed Church minister in wartime Amsterdam. He preached in ways that offended the Nazi occupiers, and the...
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family
A geeky kind of sabbatical
A geeky kind of sabbatical I am on sabbatical! After 10 years at Thoughtworks, I’m getting a nice long break. (I’ve actually been on sabbatical for a few ...
Hiatus
Long time no blog I don’t often post personal things here, but I thought after a 15 month gap I should put something up. We are all well and happy here, bu...
What on earth happened?
So, last significant update was 2014 - and most of the posts before that were about clojure. (I used to have a personal blog as well at blog.sietsma.com but...
polyglot tools
New polyglot code tools releases
My sabbatical is winding up, I naturally got far less coding done than I expected! Our lovely daughter has had a big sleep regression, so a lot of my focus ...
A geeky kind of sabbatical
A geeky kind of sabbatical I am on sabbatical! After 10 years at Thoughtworks, I’m getting a nice long break. (I’ve actually been on sabbatical for a few ...
Introducing the Polyglot Code Explorer
The Polyglot Code Explorer is my open-source tool for visualising complex codebases written in multiple programming languages.
Better D3 sites with react
My approach to get D3 to play nicely with React
clojure
Clojure snippets
I’m planning to build a proper clojure snippets/cheat-sheet page, for all the things I do regularly, or want to encourage team members to do regularly. But ...
Parsing FreeMind files
Example of parsing FreeMind xml in clojure
Xml manipulation in clojure
“XML is like violence - if it doesn’t work, use more”
visualization
Hiatus
Long time no blog I don’t often post personal things here, but I thought after a 15 month gap I should put something up. We are all well and happy here, bu...
Introducing the Polyglot Code Explorer
The Polyglot Code Explorer is my open-source tool for visualising complex codebases written in multiple programming languages.
Better D3 sites with react
My approach to get D3 to play nicely with React
jekyll
New job, new blog!
I quit my job! Yes, after 12 amazing years at Thoughtworks, I decided it was time to move on. I’m starting a new job in November - more on that later - but ...
It’s alive!
I’m moving everything to Google Domains as I don’t see the value in paying for complex hosting. I’m using github pages for hosting static sites like this on...
git
Refreshing multiple git repos
File under “blogging so I remember how I did this”… I often have the situation where I have a directory full of related git repositories related to one area...
multiple git identities
Configuring git to swap between identities easily
obsidian
Custom URI schemes in Obisidian (on a mac)
My youngest child started school this week, so I have a bit of time for blogging! This is another “a neat hack that I’m sharing partly so I remember how I d...
Building a personal digital garden with Gatsby
Building a digital garden (obsolete, now I use Obsidian!)
sabbatical
New polyglot code tools releases
My sabbatical is winding up, I naturally got far less coding done than I expected! Our lovely daughter has had a big sleep regression, so a lot of my focus ...
A geeky kind of sabbatical
A geeky kind of sabbatical I am on sabbatical! After 10 years at Thoughtworks, I’m getting a nice long break. (I’ve actually been on sabbatical for a few ...
Interesting folks to follow on Mastodon
My highly-idiosyncratic list of interesting people on Mastodon I’ve been really enjoying moving from the crumbling mess of Twitter, to the chaotic federated...
Is Mastodon a Twitter replacement?
It depends which bits of Twitter you want…
mastodon
Interesting folks to follow on Mastodon
My highly-idiosyncratic list of interesting people on Mastodon I’ve been really enjoying moving from the crumbling mess of Twitter, to the chaotic federated...
Is Mastodon a Twitter replacement?
It depends which bits of Twitter you want…
mostly-for-me
Custom URI schemes in Obisidian (on a mac)
My youngest child started school this week, so I have a bit of time for blogging! This is another “a neat hack that I’m sharing partly so I remember how I d...
Refreshing multiple git repos
File under “blogging so I remember how I did this”… I often have the situation where I have a directory full of related git repositories related to one area...
middleman
A wild blog appears!
Starting a new blog in 2013
css
A wild blog appears!
Starting a new blog in 2013
excel
Excel life
This isn’t actually all that new - I hacked this together during a global day of coderetreat in Melbourne in 2012 - but I’ve mentioned it to a few people, an...
game of life
Excel life
This isn’t actually all that new - I hacked this together during a global day of coderetreat in Melbourne in 2012 - but I’ve mentioned it to a few people, an...
macos
OCR Hack - grabbing text from the screen on a Macbook
My hacks to easily grab and OCR text on my mac
hacks
OCR Hack - grabbing text from the screen on a Macbook
My hacks to easily grab and OCR text on my mac
testing
The swiss cheese model and acceptance tests
Testing and Agile I’ve seen testing, especially acceptance testing, done horribly wrongly over the years, and sadly I often see the same anti-patterns repeat...
agile
The swiss cheese model and acceptance tests
Testing and Agile I’ve seen testing, especially acceptance testing, done horribly wrongly over the years, and sadly I often see the same anti-patterns repeat...
garden
Building a personal digital garden with Gatsby
Building a digital garden (obsolete, now I use Obsidian!)
markdown
Building a personal digital garden with Gatsby
Building a digital garden (obsolete, now I use Obsidian!)
gatsby.js
Building a personal digital garden with Gatsby
Building a digital garden (obsolete, now I use Obsidian!)
d3
Better D3 sites with react
My approach to get D3 to play nicely with React
react
Better D3 sites with react
My approach to get D3 to play nicely with React
blogging
Hiatus
Long time no blog I don’t often post personal things here, but I thought after a 15 month gap I should put something up. We are all well and happy here, bu...
mental health
A geeky kind of sabbatical
A geeky kind of sabbatical I am on sabbatical! After 10 years at Thoughtworks, I’m getting a nice long break. (I’ve actually been on sabbatical for a few ...
minecraft
Buying minecoins on a child’s Android Minecraft account
Sharing here as this was a world of pain, and maybe I can save someone else this pain. Information is as of November 2022 - earlier advice on the web is wro...
thoughtworks
New job, new blog!
I quit my job! Yes, after 12 amazing years at Thoughtworks, I decided it was time to move on. I’m starting a new job in November - more on that later - but ...
rust
Playing with Rust and Copilot
The world is full of AI hype aright now - and often it’s blown out of proportion, both on the “everything is fine” side and the “machines are going to take o...
copilot
Playing with Rust and Copilot
The world is full of AI hype aright now - and often it’s blown out of proportion, both on the “everything is fine” side and the “machines are going to take o...
genai
Playing with Rust and Copilot
The world is full of AI hype aright now - and often it’s blown out of proportion, both on the “everything is fine” side and the “machines are going to take o...
mac
Custom URI schemes in Obisidian (on a mac)
My youngest child started school this week, so I have a bit of time for blogging! This is another “a neat hack that I’m sharing partly so I remember how I d...
mpd
Custom URI schemes in Obisidian (on a mac)
My youngest child started school this week, so I have a bit of time for blogging! This is another “a neat hack that I’m sharing partly so I remember how I d...
platypus
Custom URI schemes in Obisidian (on a mac)
My youngest child started school this week, so I have a bit of time for blogging! This is another “a neat hack that I’m sharing partly so I remember how I d...
AI
Translating my Grandfather’s biograpy
My grandfather, Dr Kornelis Sietsma was a Dutch Reformed Church minister in wartime Amsterdam. He preached in ways that offended the Nazi occupiers, and the...
LLM
Translating my Grandfather’s biograpy
My grandfather, Dr Kornelis Sietsma was a Dutch Reformed Church minister in wartime Amsterdam. He preached in ways that offended the Nazi occupiers, and the...
social media
Interesting folks to follow on Mastodon
6 minute read
My highly-idiosyncratic list of interesting people on Mastodon I’ve been really enjoying moving from the crumbling mess of Twitter, to the chaotic federated...
Is Mastodon a Twitter replacement?
4 minute read
It depends which bits of Twitter you want…