Personal Notes from Digitalia.

Daily incremental backup of my Raspberry Pi 4 to OneDrive using restic and rclone — plus a three-tier backup strategy for the truly paranoid.

Are you actually there when it counts?

What if, instead of investing more, you strategically let go?

Only if you can trust yourself will you walk your path to the end.

What are you actually doing this for?

Practice makes perfect. You just have to start and keep going.

The simplest workflow for a reliable Raspberry Pi backup.

When was the last time something truly took your breath away?

Overcoming the fear of failure and letting go.

Three potential clients in one week, three different ways to lose them. What virtual-first collaboration really feels like from the other side of the world.

A wireless mic changed how I dictate on the move — and it's made by an Aussie company.

They won't kill Google, but they're handy tools for figuring out what people actually want to know.

How to position objects and text in GitPitch using the grid system. A practical guide.

A brilliant workflow for streaming Markdown presentations with OBS — control your scenes right from the slides.

Crowdsourced beach monitoring with CoastalSnap — citizen science tracking erosion across NSW.

The new Vimeo extension speeds up async video messaging. Whether anyone actually watches them is another question entirely.

A few things I learned from producing podcasts with nothing but iPhones.

Remote podcast production from Australia with guests in Germany — using Studiolink, iPhones, and a surprising amount of patience.

Take the future of a city full of autonomous cars (a technologist’s dream come true): The natural “enemies” of these smart vehicles will be cyclists and pedestrians as they are …

An old surfer's wisdom about falling off the board, swimming back, and why you can't stop the waves — but you can learn to surf.