Former software engineer, current engineering manager. Interested in how things work; breaking things and fixing things.

Located in Wollongong, Australia.


Career Change to Software Engineering

Presenting your portfolio and resume when transitioning into a software engineering career.

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Twilio Verify Rate Limiting

Buckets of fun with Twilio Verify API rate limiting for mobile verification requests.

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Floating Point Arithmetic and Why It Makes Cents

With the current headlines being dominated by the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, it seems apt to share this recent coding mistake I made with floating point numbers.

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Writing Code with AI Examples

Having a conversation with ChatGPT can be fun, but it will quite often tell you confidently something you know to be gibberish.

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Displaying Relative Time for a Static Site

Calculating relative dates in JavaScript to display on statically generated sites, including those built with Eleventy - like this one.

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