Last update: 10/11/2024
About me
Zak's the name. I like the outdoors - running's my jam - trails and hills are my fav. I can keep a trot all day, more if I'm on a mish. I like to garden too, grow my own food, save a few bob. I do a bit of mountain biking, skiing and paragliding when time, money and nerves permit.
I grew up in Australia, but now reside in the Queenstown Lakes District in New Zealand. Traded the beaches for the mountains. I'm much more at home here. Recently became a NZ citizen and passport holder.
My career has predominantly been in geographic information systems (GIS) and surveying, but I've recently transitioned into business process improvement where we use the Six Sigma methodology to make improvements in the way our organisation does things.
I like computery things too. Data vis, web building, coding, systematic trading, PKM, linux, de-googling, FOSS, fediverse, permacomputing. I'm not great at any of them, but they're interesting and I enjoy learning them.
About the site
I'm fairly new to this web building thing. Though I have a couple of other digital homes, this one is a bit of a testing ground while I learn the ropes. At the moment I am using the zola static site generator and the neocities CLI utility to publish to Neocities. I am simultaneously learning about Linux and the command line on my old laptop, so most of this is built from there.
Quick-posts
2024-11-17 12:26
Ok fixed my RSS issue. Couldn't generate them because I've had to downgrade to Zola 0.18 from 0.19 for Alpine compatibility, and I had missed that the…
2024-11-12 18:16
About to say bye to Windows forever. Here goes. Alpine Linux here we come.
2024-11-12 13:15
Putting a pause on The Odin Project foundations course. I got halfway through the last module on javascript, but with starting my new job on Monday, i…
2024-11-11 21:32
You beaut. Updated my blog script to copy a template and insert all the dates and times.
$ blog
Select the type of post:
[1] Blog-post
[2] Quick-post
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2024-11-10 09:10
My first dog Blu. Only had him for a short stint in 2010 before I moved to Bathurst. He went on to a neighbouring farm to be a working dog. He had mas…
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Blog
🗓️ Weeknote 2024-W46
2024-11-17 18:11
Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.
🏢 Work - Pretty big one here. Wrapped up my final week at Council. I've been there 6 years in two diffe…
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Alpine Xfce setup notes
2024-11-16 22:09
Christ, what a mission. Way out of my depth. Here's a dump of notes on setting up Alpine with Xfce DE.
Pesky extra configurations
Enable shut down and…
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🗓️ Weeknote 2024-W45
2024-11-10 13:35
Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.
🩸 Health - Been sick since Tuesday, and still battling. Not sure what's going on. These last few months…
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HTML Chunder
2024-11-09 22:40
I think my website is living up to its name.
Blog posts, quick-posts, list-posts, garden-posts... they all blend into each other. I could probably jus…
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🔗 Link Stash | 9 Nov 2024
2024-11-09 13:15
Fresh dump of interesting and/or useful web links I've found recently. Full link stash here.
Bookmarks
190. neomutt
Email client for the terminal.
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In the garden
In the Garden 2024-08-23
2024-08-23 21:26
Spring is around the corner here and I'm a little bit excited. Proud to say I've been eating carrots, beets and rocket from the garden all through winter. My staggered plantings before it got too cold seemed to work. I ran out of spuds, but I stil…
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