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Observations from the Eye of the Storm
I’ve finally produced and released the first pages of Issue 04 of Kamigen. It’s been an awesome journey — particularly because the process makes me focus on individual scenes as they unfold…
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Enhancing SysOps with DevOps
Since discovering it a few months ago, Manjaro Linux has been such a delight with it’s ease of use and performance. So good that, against conventional wisdom, I really want…
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Future Jobs: The Rise of Interdisciplinary Thinking
From our humble beginnings as hunter gatherers, it took us thousands of years to create words with enough meaning to define the discrete schools of thought that make up primary…
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When I grow up, I want to be George Lucas
Growing up, I never thought I’d end up in I.T. It was inevitable in hindsight, considering the sheer amount of time I spent on my PC as a kid. When…
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Open Source: The peaceful revolution
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has gone from being a futurist movement to a fundamental part of business and technology. Unix-like operating systems such as Linux are installed on…
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A matter of privacy and security
Google provides free services in exchange for access to our data, which it uses for ads that fund the service. Over the years since that model was implemented we’ve seen…
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Tales from the road less travelled
Designing a games production company that can generate revenue via open source has been challenging. I’ve come across companies in my research that generate revenue from Free and Open Source…
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Commercialising a hobby
The time has come for me to start a company. There’s a few reasons for this, but the main one is that if I don’t a lifetime of work will…
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Balancing compliance, ethics and value in digital
Complex ideas are a bit like the ABOVE island resort — a series of smaller nodes branching off the main node. Since 1999 we’ve experienced a tech revolution in business, government and wider…
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Windows 10 Review (2018)
We’ve gone from Windows 95’s “Where would you like to go today?” to “HAHA ARSEHOLE — I will ruin your day!” Fuck. That is a good word to describe this operating system and…
About Me
Welcome to my blog! I’m Paul, a creative technologist based in Perth, Western Australia. I dabble in a range of things from animation to web dev to 3D shaders. I like to use open source technology and giving back to that community.