Tech, music and life.

A journal of what I'm building, playing and learning along the way.

2026

  1. · Software Development

    Digital Playground

    This post is about my playground repo. I started this repo to help learn some new techniques and technologies. This repo is not the first playground repo I have made. Way back in October 2019, I set…

  2. · Dungeons and Dragons

    What Is DND

    Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is something that I will be writing a few posts about. This first one will be about the game itself, what it is and why I like it. The subsequent posts on playing the game…

2025

  1. · Astrophotography

    Deep Space Object Astrophotography

    I started astrophotography as a hobby in 2018 with a friend. We initially went out with just a DSLR and a tripod, and the images were a bit of a mess. It turns out it’s actually quite complicated to…

2024

  1. · AI

    ComfyUI

    A comprehensive guide to ComfyUI - a powerful tool for generative AI workflows that goes beyond simple image generation.

  2. · Teamwork

    Supporting Each Others Development

    We had a team day recently where four from our team met up with another developer from one of the other teams within our organisation to have some discussions on various topics face to face. One of…

  3. · Teamwork

    Collaborative Meetings

    This is a post I am writing as I explore collaborative work. This will be the first post about it as I research collaborative meetings with a goal of finding some good information about collaborative…

  4. · Music

    Clarinet

    The wonderful, tragic and happy tale of my first instrument and where I am today. I first started learning the clarinet when I was 7 after attending a wonderful performance by a Naval band at the…

  5. · iPad

    iPad Shortcuts For Blogging

    As mentioned in my Blogging from my iPad I created a bunch of shortcuts in the provided iPad app based off the ones from Marco Gomiero’s post. These shortcuts were a great place to start but were…

  6. · iPad

    iPad AI

    Following on from my previous post on things that I wanted to try on my iPad, I have spent a bit of time playing with AI art generation on the iPad. Going into this I was not expecting to be able to…