Slides from talks I’ve given, mostly at the Christchurch Ruby meetup.
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Aug 2025 Elixir
Background, language basics, pattern matching and pipelines, the BEAM, and a tour of Phoenix LiveView.
Jul 2025 Chess 101
How the pieces move, checkmate and stalemate, castling, gambits, and some basic strategy and tactics.
Jun 2025 This is not financial advice
Kiwisaver, NZ Super and retirement calculators, tracking spending, emergency funds, and the flavours of FIRE.
Apr 2024 Tailscale + Caddy + Cloudflare DNS
Rolling your own VPN with Tailscale, fronted by Caddy and Cloudflare DNS.
Aug 2019 PREPARE TO REPEL BOARDERS!!!!!!! — Rails 5.2 Attributes API
Form objects: what they are, when to reach for one, and building them with ActiveModel::Attributes.
Jan 2018 A Vue to a Kill
What Vue is, why you would use it, and a live demo.
Jan 2017 Ruby! Orca! Dotfiles!
Uploading a bazillion photos with rsync, bash and cron, plus dotfile management.