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2025

2025-12-30 Deploying hidden dotfiles to GitHub Pages
2025-12-28 Go’s secret weapon: the standard library interfaces
2025-12-26 The “new” function changes in Go 1.26
2025-12-23 Holiday update
2025-03-29 Gemini 2.5, MCP servers and Neovim v0.11.0
2025-03-01 Claude Code, Go tool and Dependabot updates
2025-02-22 Gemini, Go Meetup and new Neovim tools dropped
2025-02-21 Starting a blog series

2024

2024-12-28 Solving severe stuttering during Remote Play sessions
2024-12-04 Ghostty on macOS
2024-12-02 Native per-project tools in Go 1.24
2024-10-20 Session management in Wezterm (without tmux)
2024-08-24 GitHub Pages and Google

2023

2023-09-01 Export repo data from GitHub organization
2023-07-02 Decoupling the ORM class from the data model class
2023-06-21 Access Python dict using dot notation
2023-06-02 Building Python wheels targeting different interpreter versions
2023-04-02 Google Calendar notes
2023-03-29 Using GitHub merge queue to ease the Dependabot churn

2022

2022-12-18 Load variables from .env file into current environment
2022-12-18 Docker notes
2022-12-17 Python notes
2022-12-17 Postgres notes
2022-12-17 Graphite notes
2022-12-17 GitHub Actions notes
2022-12-17 Git notes
2022-12-17 Datadog and custom tracing

2021

2021-12-17 Developing with Apple Silicon
2021-11-13 Installing Poetry system-wide
2021-04-17 Debugging Poetry with Visual Studio Code
2021-01-08 Encoding UUIDs with base62

2019

2019-05-27 Visual Studio Code remote development with Windows 10
2019-05-12 Building Windows Terminal
2019-02-04 Open source licenses

2018

2018-12-14 Control Docker containers from within container
2018-06-25 Nuke gizmos to groups
2018-06-07 Distributing Python script(s) as zip file
2018-06-06 Google Hangouts Chat incoming webhook using Python standard library only
2018-04-18 Cartesian product in Python
2018-03-15 Switching between Docker and VirtualBox on Windows 10
2018-03-09 Official PySide2 wheels!
2018-02-20 Standalone PySide2 wheels

2017

2017-11-30 Dates and databases with Python
2017-11-17 Querying the FPS preference in Maya
2017-11-16 Maya 2018 file size bug
2017-09-30 Contributing to PySide2
2017-08-29 Qt.py on conda-forge
2017-08-28 PySide2 easy install!
2017-06-30 An alternative to building PySide2 from source
2017-06-28 Find missing libs with repoquery
2017-06-20 Async and await with subprocesses
2017-05-07 Querying Render Setup in Maya 2017
2017-05-04 Vendoring Qt.py
2017-01-29 Docker cleanup

2016

2016-12-28 Notes on ffmpeg
2016-11-21 Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
2016-11-02 A treasure trove of learning Python videos
2016-09-12 Testing and sandboxing with Docker
2016-08-17 Compiling PySide2 from source
2016-07-31 Docker for Mac and GUI applications
2016-07-25 Installing Qt.py (advanced methods)
2016-07-25 Developing with Qt.py
2016-07-25 Dealing with Maya 2017 and PySide2
2016-05-23 Read node from Write node
2016-05-20 My Sublime Text 3 setup
2016-04-27 Systemd services and resource limits
2016-04-20 How to install PySide into OS X El Capitan
2016-04-06 My Atom setup
2016-03-11 Install psutil in CentOS 6
2016-03-07 Backslash in Atom
2016-01-18 Installing Visual Studio for Python 2.7
2016-01-03 Chocolatey on Windows 10

2015

2015-12-30 Install CentOS 7 remotely using Kickstart and GRUB
2015-12-28 Python simple web server
2015-11-25 Compiling PyQt5 for Python 2.7 on OS X
2015-11-18 CentOS 6 yum errors (and fixes)
2015-10-16 Turning your renders up to 11
2015-10-07 Identifying Chrome extensions on Chrome OS eating up too much disk space
2015-09-24 Flickr dumpr
2015-09-15 Fixing Python’s insecure platform warning
2015-09-11 Installing PySide into a virtualenv
2015-09-10 Installing Maya 2016 on Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty)
2015-05-19 Getting quick access to new Google Cloud SDK features
2015-05-12 File copy progress window with PyQt/PySide and shutil
2015-05-06 Kill process by search string
2015-05-01 3D rendering in the Google Cloud
2015-04-15 Find file or folder in Linux
2015-04-15 Copying Maya to network share

2014

2014-12-15 Run gsutil from crontab
2014-12-02 What’s hogging that folder?
2014-11-28 Fabric on CentOS 6.6
2014-11-10 Stop using print and do some logging
2014-11-07 How to create large temp files quickly (for testing purposes)
2014-10-06 Modal QMainWindow setup in Maya (or Nuke) without Shiboken/SIP
2014-08-06 Set Maya project and create folder structure
2014-06-07 Maya and relativity
2014-06-05 64-bit Python package building with VS2008
2014-02-16 Search and replace

2013

2013-12-13 Load latest Maya crash file
2013-10-11 Catching string from stdout with Python
2013-10-06 A PySide/PyQt4 boilerplate for Maya, Nuke or standalone
2013-07-15 Send MEL/Python commands from Sublime Text to Maya
2013-06-16 Fujifilm X100S camera profiles and presets
2013-06-07 Maya Bonus Tools 2014 – arbitrary installation
2013-06-06 PyQt4 in Maya 2014 on OS X
2013-05-29 Fujifilm X100S feedback
2013-03-08 The Fujifilm X100S – compared to the X100
2013-02-01 Fixing “read-only” files in Maya

2012

2012-12-21 Happy holidays!
2012-12-12 Generating a spherical HDR image with V-Ray for Maya
2012-11-26 Installing PyQt4 in Nuke 6.3 on Windows
2012-10-29 Wilson tennis ball
2012-08-18 Metadata and EXIF in Nuke
2012-08-09 Fujifilm Finepix X100 – LCD/EVF observations
2012-08-04 Fujifilm Finepix X100 – RAW and film simulation
2012-06-12 The Fujifilm X100 – a year in retrospect
2012-06-04 Create .app to launch Python script in Mac OS X
2012-03-28 Nuke and CPU usage in Windows
2012-02-21 Getting V-Ray to render Nuke-style Z-depth
2012-02-16 V-Ray for Maya
2012-02-02 Fujifilm X100 settings & notes

2011

2011-11-12 Nuke script
2011-11-11 Read node from Write node
2011-10-28 Nuke 6.3 small studio setup for Windows/OS X
2011-06-02 Remote Windows management with PsTools, part 3
2011-05-15 Remote Windows management with PsTools, part 2
2011-05-13 Remote Windows management with PsTools, part 1

2010

2010-11-24 Managing Maya scenes on multiple platforms
2010-06-27 Linear workflow, part 2
2010-05-27 Linear workflow, part 1
2010-05-27 Enabling Iray in Maya 2011
2010-05-19 Enabling the mental ray production shaders

2009

2009-12-10 Kenny Begins

2008

2008-12-25 Digital visual effects showreel 2008

2007

2007-07-09 Ramlösa
2007-02-10 Island of Lost Souls

2005