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Uncloud yourself

As I sit here putting thoughts to keyboard to write this post, I can't help but marvel at the number of portable USB SSDs that are just sitting on my desk. There was a period of time where I was absolutely certain that the days of USB storage where entering their twilight, that it...

On the 15th of September 2023, I threw caution to the wind. I put my money down for two pre-orders. One was the AMD variant of the Framework 13 laptop, which I've spoken about before. The other was the Framework 16.

While the Framework 13 was something of a safe bet - Framework had released 3 ge...

The night after I posted my last article, I was brushing my teeth on the way to bed and thinking about what I'd written. I was thinking about the recent transitions of hardware in my home and came to realise there has been something of a revolution. From a landscape that was entirely dominated by...

Framework Laptop. Kids. Looking after your belongings.

A number of mental threads came together and bam! We have an idea for a post. So join me and let's go for a quick trip down memory lane.

The year is 2003. I'm in my second year at university. I've been working part time at OfficeWorks and a...

The year is 2011. My wife and I have been living together for 2 years and she has generously allowed me to turn the back storage room of our then house into a home lab. The back room was a dodgy extension built after the house. I painstakingly ran network cable to the outer wall of the extension a...

Build Your Own Device

This isn't a full review of the Framework 13. There are plenty of those out there. Rather this is a story telling of my experience.

I started sketching out this post back in December 2023. I was part of the Framework 13 AMD pre-order and I finally had my laptop in my hands...

A little over 12 months ago, I posted an opinion piece on travel routers. This is just an update, so for context I recommend clicking this link for a quick read.

Since then my travel router has continued to follow me everywhere. In June 2023 it followed me to the US and back, in December 2023 it came to Beechworth where (tethered to my phone) it provided the family with Internet and directly after that it came with us to Bright where it was used to log into the local caravan park's wifi and (again) distribute Internet to the family. In between all of this it has done the Melbourne to Sydney dash countless times.

Google Photos has to be up there as one of the handiest and most useful products that Google has released. Up there with Maps and Gmail.

I remember the mind blowing experience of being able to search by faces or type "blue car" into a search window to find a photo of my old car.

Going back to th...