europe Visiting Prague, Czech Republic After the 3rd day in Prague I suddenly realised I had not taken out the lofty Canon DSLR to take any pictures of the amazing city. Most of these are quick snaps taken
europe Leipzig I managed to see some nice things on the bike sharing system "Durstexpress". I prefer the name "DursteXtremeMTB" for the purposes I used the 3-speed bike city bike for over 3 hours costing
europe Dresden Dresden is a pretty remarkable city. The city skyline from the bridges across the river Elbe have some fantastic buildings to photograph. Another highlight was visiting Saxon-Switzerland national park which is close to
europe Berlin Taking the Deutsche Bahn train from Hamburg was a piece of cake on the Eurail pass. Upon arriving and opting to take the 50 minute walk from the station to the hostel I
europe Hamburg After spending an incredible 1 week with my friend and his girlfriend were kind enough to let me stay for a while.Conclusion: would love to live here. Plenty of things to do
travel Cologne 🇩🇪 I spent 3 nights in an extremely quiet but friendly hostel in Cologne. Had great nights out for local food and beers.The very friendly locals pointed out all the best places to
travel Visiting Amsterdam Amsterdam was okay but I preferred the calmer streets of Rotterdam. It was probably the crowds and crazy heat wave temperatures. I was also in a very lame hostel located 30 minutes away
travel Kinderdijk Windmills Warning: this post contains a lot of windmill photos in this UNESCO World Heritage site.I probably took at least 1000+ windmill photos & videos. They are really beautiful machines and many operate
travel Exploring Rotterdam After a pretty strange cycle of thunderstorms I went for a walking tour around the most popular parts of the city. Lots of really interesting architecture in this city.Lots of interesting architecture!
travel A day in Bruges Canal in BrugesThe Belfry TowerThe best waffle placeI enjoyed this one more than the lighter Brussels style waffleA well known hot chocolate place where you pour in the chocolate!
travel Off to Belgium 🇧🇪 A day wandering & cycling in BrusselsTypical Belgian foods attractions: waffles, frites (Fries) with andalouse sauce & hundreds (maybe thousand) of bier options in this placeTomorrow is Bruges! Hopefully I don't run into
travel Travel to Paris, France 🇫🇷 Taking the Eurostar from London to Paris was pretty easy once I figured out what the fuck was wrong with my seat reservation. Wrong company purchased from! All good. They sorted it out.
travel First day in London 🇬🇧 After successfully fighting and (almost winning) against jet lag I activated tourist.exe and did some typical sightseeing around central London starting in Westminster. I then proceeded to walk along the Southwalk to
travel Melbourne to London via Doha, Qatar 🇶🇦 I now have a new personal best for how far I can sit in a plane, covered in red wine.... Fourteen and and a half hours sitting in the king of the skies;
development PiHole + Wireguard Road Warrior Setup I have setup a very basic VPN setup while traveling to prevent tracking & annoying ads on unsecured public WiFi networks. It all runs on a tiny t2.nano costing less than $5/
udraw udraw is now serverless The udraw project no longer requires servers for it's API and storage back-end. The NodeJS + Express app has been ported to run inside AWS Lambda & API Gateway with tile storage backed in
Traffic Shaping Large Uploads to S3 with MikroTik RouterOS I currently have a very large collection of Canon Raw DSLR images I want to backup in the cloud in case the unthinkable happens to my external drives. There is one problem: I
development Motion Sensing with Raspberry Pi Camera and Cat Face Scanning with AWS Lambda + OpenCV I wrote a Python script that detects camera motion with a Raspberry Pi camera and uploads photos to S3. The frames are then searched for cat faces using OpenCV running on AWS for
development udraw: Multiplayer Drawing Canvas udraw is a multiplayer drawing application like many other  drawing apps out there which have surfaced since the rise of WebSockets.  Mine happens to expand in size allowing very large drawings on an
Bye Bye WordPress. Welcome to Jekyll! 11/06/2015Horay for static site pages. This will definitely make writing web pages fun again Update 2019: It wasn't fun! Running Ghost now and enjoying time not spend fixing broken Ruby Gem
development Tiled HTML5 Canvas Multiplayer Drawing There are far too may tutorials out there describing how to  create a NodeJS app which either involves real time chat or drawing. A  couple of years back I was amazed at how
