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Glitch Arena Project Overview Vid

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Love scratches but hate cracks.

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Fuji film X-Pro1 and SOOC pondering

Just pressed reset on another new old camera.

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The Further Side by Black Nile

This is a smoothly sounding, underproduced, and experimental jazz fusion record, heavily analog but with some electronic elements.

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AirPods Max are better with Tidal too

If not an audiophile, or a music lover – I’m a sound lover.

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HomePods are Better with Tidal HiFi

Tl;dr One HomePods will suffice for most people in most rooms.

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Choose your own reality

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Swanky Isometric Tech Things

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Best Albums of 2010s

The 2010s were a great decade for music discovery, with Spotify arriving in Australia in 2012 followed by Apple Music a few years later.

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Open Letter to Australian Environmental Editors

The devastating fires predicted scientifically are clearly linked to climate change.

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@dark._.designs Insta Launch

I’ve been doing more visual graphic work and plan to start offering this as a service.

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iPhone 11 does Mie, Japan

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Narita Night Rain with iPhone 11 And VSCO Cam

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Details – ephemera captured

An ongoing collection of photographs of random this and thats. Most of these are shot on an iPhone 6. The ones with a white border are taken with Blackie App on iPhone – a great app for black and white iPhoneography. Many were taken with the iPhone’s Noir preset – a very nice high contrast black and white mode.

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Dark Mode Doesn’t Need to be Inverted White on Black

As outlined recently, it’s fairly easy to support dark mode on your website, by referencing the device defaults, as set by the user.

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Adding a Dark Mode to your Website

With iOS 13 out and many prowling the net in darkmode, you may not want to shine a spotlight into their face should they happen upon your #fff body.

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UE4 Tip: spawning character sounds in in a listen server environment

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Old Phone Day (aka Apple Christmas)

Still rocking Noir 5 years later.

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Indie Game Dev #2: Glitch Arena

Building on my efforts with Frag Forest, in recent months I have undertaken a new project, Glitch Arena, which saw a Steam Early Access release two months ago.

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Road to Welfare

This is a road I used to walk in my late teens and early 20s, whenever I had to deal with centrelink, Australia’s welfare agency.

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