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 on the iPhone. Praha is quite a touristic city and you'll find a Euronet ATM
Venice Getting on the train from Budapest to Vienna and using my skills luck in getting good seats without reservations I prevailed. Austria was beautiful and I wish I had the time to explore more. I'd imagine it being quite extra-ordinary during winter. As soon as I crossed the
Kraków, Poland I decided last minute to change my itinerary after hearing plenty of great things about Krakow from other travelers. I'm so glad I did. This was absolutely one of my Europe trip highlights. One of the most beautiful produce markets I've ever come across.
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 about 5€. I traveled over 40km on gravel and small mountains towards Markkleeberg
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 the border of Czech Republic. It has some incredible sandstone rock formations and a famous bridge that
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 was immediately surprised by how interesting punk many people are! Could people watch in the park for
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 and cycle around to see. The scale and beauty of Stadtpark was breathtaking and will miss walking
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 eat & drink. Saturday nights are pretty big here! Next up: Hamburg
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 on the metro. I would rather re-visit here during a quiet season without all the tourists such
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 and still have people living inside.
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.
travel Off to Belgium 🇧🇪 A day wandering & cycling in Brussels Tomorrow is Bruges! Hopefully I don't run into many bunches of touristy elephants!
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. The speed of the train was quite impressive. I was curious and tested this using a speedometer
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 the pretty epic Tower of London. ?? And my favourite... An 11th century building with 21st century robotic
travel Featured 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; a fully laden Qatar Airways Airbus A380. All was well until 40 minutes in they served red
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/month. The box All this runs on a single t2.nano AWS instance running in the nearest
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 S3 with an Elasticache Redis sitting in as a tile cache and WebSocket message broker.
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 have 100Mbps down / 20Mbps up Internet speed. Having this going for a few days will destroy the
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 alerting of heightened 'cattivity' in the house. This could also be done using Amazon’s
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 (unlimited?) sized surface. Each area of the canvas is broken into 256x256 pixel tiles which are drawn
Bye Bye WordPress. Welcome to Jekyll! 11/06/2015 Horay 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 dependencies and loosing hours I'll never get back waiting for to Nokogiri
