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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 a year ago (Jan 2022 to be precise), I started in a new role. I'm happy to say that over 12 months and one roller-coaster ride later I'm still very happy with my new role (can't really call is new any more can I?). Why am I mentioning this? Because closer to exactly 12 months ago (Ma...

I may have a few too many travel routers. Perhaps the correct term for multiple travel routers is an embarrassment of travel routers?

But all jokes aside, travel routers are an essential item for all forms of travel. I've taken one with me on every recent holiday and every recent work trip. Th...

I've become a little obsessed with wifi as of late. For many people WFH is here to stay. This is mostly great; we have greater freedom to find harmony between work and personal commitments, commute times are close to zero and there's something magical about attending work in tracksuit. But there's o...