Thomas Vogelaar

Stay Tuned

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:15:01 +1000

I’m writing a review soon, stay tuned!

Slopware

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:16:00 +1000

Over the past couple years I’ve frequently been critical of AI coding tools, but it’d be silly to not admit how much attention they’ve captured in our industry. The articles, speeches and proclamations that these tools will completely upend our industry are relentless, and yet… I haven’t seen it? Sure, there are tons of posts of developers making their next million dollar SaaS product, or “one-shotting” some app you’ve never heard of. But it’s been a few years now, has the industry really changed that much? This is a genuine question, I’m honestly not sure.

Programming With Chronic Pain

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:54:27 +1000

If you know me personally you’ll know that I’ve dealt with chronic pain for years. Mainly, I’ve had issues with my shoulders, arms and wrists/hands. Despite a myriad of medical appointments, physios, scans, etc. it persists. Unlike many, I’ve been lucky to at least get what appears to be an accurate diagnosis in my case (multi-lateral shoulder instability, bursitis and a history of tennis elbow), but the road to recovery is a slow one. Over the years I’ve tried the whole range of solutions to alleviate the pain with most having minimal impact, but a few things have made a notable impact that I’d like to share with you.

The Copilot Pause

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 21:30:00 +1000

If you regularly use GitHub Copilot or another AI code completion tool, I want you to try something: just briefly turn it off and continue with whatever you’re programming at the moment.

Do you feel it? The Pause?

Deploying a Hugo Blog to Cloudflare Pages

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:46:09 +1000

As I wrote about in my previous post I’ve recently built my blog in Hugo. This post details how to deploy a Hugo blog to Cloudflare Pages, using my own site as an example. I will be assuming that you’re using Github, but this should also work the same for other supported Git providers.

Building a Blog With Hugo (My Experience)

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:53:30 +1000

Over time I’ve found myself collecting random thoughts in short writeups on my phone notes, so I decided to cobble them together in a blog to throw online. This lined up pretty well with that regular urge to start a side-project that I know I’ll never finish, so I decided to build a blog with Hugo. This post covers the process of creating the site and the decisions made along the way.