Ten percent of my work time is dedicated to professional development through two ‘Hackdays’ a month. For my most recent Hackdays I wanted to combine old-school phone technology with ‘modern’ web technoligies. I came across a service called Plivo which lets you work with the phone network through a web...

About a year ago, I posted two articles about setting up my Raspberry Pi as a home server and how I setup remote access to it from anywhere in the world without using portforwarding. I’ve had a few people stumble across my post, asking questions and sharing details about their...

In November of last year I finished my Software Engineering degree and moved to Wellington to start work at Flux Federation. Flux builds software that runs energy companies like Powershop - an energy retailer in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. I work as part of the team that...

Last weekend I wanted to see the latest movie trailers. Of course, there are plenty of websites out there for this, however, none of them meet the excitement of watching movie trailers before a film at the cinemas. So that’s what I set out to build. First, I needed to...

For a few years now I’ve been wanting to organise a family photo and video archive. Digital content is much easier to deal with, but my family members still have boxes of old photos sitting around in their cupboards. In our case, this is basically everything prior to the year...

I have a Raspberry Pi home server that I can remotely access through a tinc VPN tunnel with my VPS. Most services can be accessed through the tunnel with addresses like plex.crawford.kiwi, but some of them are only available on my local network, for example, SMB and SSH. Accessing these...