Hi, I'm Harrison. I currently work at me&u as a software engineer. I enjoy golfing, gaming, travel and playing with my dog Spud.

Recent Posts

Friday, March 20, 2026

Cuban Grand Prix#podcasts.apple.com

I liked this episode because it was a mix of Godfather 2 references. Cuba is the 50s was a wild place.

Kayo Redesign

Credit where it's due; the new Kayo redesign is really nice. The backend video streaming for live events also works a lot better now which is good to see.

It also works flawlessly in Safari whereas a few years ago it seemed stable only in Chrome.

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Using Helix For Blog

What if to practice getting better at using Helix I try using it for my blog.

The shortcuts are still kind of brutal to remember what it could be a bit of fun to give it a go.

I think it makes more sense to use these kind of editors now given the shift away from needing an IDE with AI.

I want something as stripped back as this and use it in conjunction with tools like lazygit.

Peninsula Kingswood#youtube.com

Rick Shiels playing at a course around the corner from me. I'm in.

Masters Of Ceremonies#instagram.com

This should be a cracking podcast. Been missing Ollie's commentary around the footy and the clear St Kilda bias.

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Apple Passwords

I've now fully migrated to Apple Passwords. The app is okay and given 1password are increasing their prices there's kind of no point staying on with them. The autocomplete for Apple Passwords is also excellent.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Docherty#youtube.com

This whole media saga has been weird. Honestly its been probably good PR and exposure for Dan Does Footy.

Rory And Scottie#youtube.com

This is so random but super cool. That little low fade that Rory hits off the tee is beautiful.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Victoria Golf Club#youtube.com

Wish I was wealthy enough to play here regularly. It looks beautiful.

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Neo#apple.com

This is going to be a really popular product.

The Neo name is a bit of a surprise.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Ladder Prediction 2026

Here's my 2026 AFL ladder prediction.

  1. Gold Coast
  2. Sydney
  3. Hawthorn
  4. Fremantle
  5. Brisbane
  6. St Kilda
  7. Western Bulldogs
  8. Adelaide
  9. Carlton
  10. Essendon
  11. GWS
  12. North Melbourne
  13. Geelong
  14. Port Adelaide
  15. Melbourne
  16. Richmond
  17. Collingwood
  18. West Coast

Grand Final: Gold Coast vs Sydney

Premier: Gold Coast

Cometti#youtube.com

Legendary commentator. Some of these clips are so good.

Weird Players#youtube.com

If Emma had the opportunity to do this on me who knows what would come out. Something very weird most likely.

Stardew Old Builds#youtube.com

Really cool insight into game development here. Even those old builds look pretty awesome though in my opinion. Sprout Valley was definitely a much worse name.

Dot

Over the weekend I did something long overdue; cleaning up my dotfiles. I've done things a stupid way in the past where I'd store my dotfiles in iCloud Drive as a duplicate of what was in my home directory.

Using git is a much better solution to this problem.

In interacting with ChatGPT it came up with a scripting strategy whereby you have this alias in your .zshrc

alias dot='/opt/homebrew/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

which creates an empty git directory named .dotfiles in your home and you interact with your dotfiles using dot instead of git.

So whenever I update my .zshrc now the flow is

dot status
dot add -u
dot commit -m "Commit message"
dot push

and everything is stored remotely in GitHub ready for a new machine whenever I switch.

I'm currently also storing my Ghostty config file as well as my .gitconfig. But the main thing I need to store somewhere safe is the .zshrc as I have a number of aliases and functions now that should be tracked.

Monday, March 2, 2026

Ten Minutes By Tractor

Me and Emma celebrated our first wedding anniversary at Ten Minutes by Tractor on Saturday night. It was a wonderful evening and the food and wine were world class. Would recommend it to anyone wanting to celebrate a special occasion.

Side note: the Main Ridge area has some beautiful driving roads. The trees and farms are stunning. It would be an absolute dream to have a house there but I think it's very expensive.

Starship

I also added starship to my zsh shell over the weekend which many other dev's use at my work.

It's nice; not life-changing but it provides good context at a glance whenever you're working in a repo.

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Minish Cap Replay

I played Minish Cap ages ago but I didn't play through the whole thing. Will do so this time.

The pixel art is beautiful and it again shows how strong the Game Boy Advance library was. I wish there were Zelda games still like this these days.

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Pokemon Red And Green Switch#pokemon.com

Wild that it took this long but sure we'll take it.

Friday, February 20, 2026

Codex After A Month

I've been using the Codex Mac app for around a month or so now fully for work and its been game changing.

For brainstorming and actually writing the code; it's been a brilliant tool to improve my productivity. It has also meant learning to work in a very different way. I no longer actually handwrite that much code. The agent has become so good at taking my instructions and running with it that it's no longer faster for me to type.