Processed Honours Final Presentation Video
I’ve cleaned up and merged the videos of my final research presentation that I recently uncovered The cleaned up version has been put on my ZFS Research Page.
Alternatively you can watch it on YouTube:
Finally a Favicon
When checking my sites network usage earlier, I was reminded that browsers will try to
load a file called favicon.ico from any site and mine didn’t have one. I
was initially inspired by the two-triangle fast-forward symbol to make a site
logo with my initials, in the form of a basic SVG.
Videos of my Final Research Presentation
While looking through some old USBs I’ve discovered a recording of the final presentation of my Honours Research in late 2014. I had believed this was completely lost, like the video of my BSDCan presentation which was not successfully recorded due to technical issues.
The video files have been put on my ZFS research page. The orignals are shot in profile on a 2013 era smartphone and the volume is very low - I might to try and clean them up a bit, but very glad to have the files regardless.
Small Site Retheme, and some File Size info
Inspired by some Solarpunk Lemmy discussion especially Smolweb.org I had a look at the overhead of my Nikola site theme and was suprised by how heavy the JS and CSS was even though it was barely doing anything.
Thus, I’ve switched to the lighter base theme for both my personal site and Research Site. These still contain (post-compression) 9.5 KB of CSS and 4.1 KB of JS, which still seems quite excessive but it’s a big improvement for minimal effort on my part.
Experimental Braised Cabbage
Inspired by the Fallow Chefs’ confit caramelized cabbage, I made a vegan braised caramelized cabbage for dinner tonight, with pearl barley and split peas then finished in the stock. The recipe was improvised and not recorded exactly but the results were amazing.
The cabbage came out very sweet and caramelized, like the confit method appears but less buttery. Texture was nice, soft enough that the inner layers could be cut with a fork but not mushy.
I’ve written up the process below as best I can remember it.
CO2 Emissions of Most Popular 20 Vehicles in Australia, 2025
Data from NTC’s Light Vehicle Emissions Intensity 2025 Report. The data dashboard there contains lots more details including stats based on regions, fuel/powertrain type, market segment, and you can look up individual car models on page 9.
Curtailment, or why Australia can give everyone three hours of free solar power during the day
I annotated this chart to show the huge gap between the curtailed (wasted) renewable power at midday in Australia and the storage available to make use of it. Hence the recently announced Solar Sharer Scheme, which will give Australians three hours of free power in the middle of the day.
Microwave Baked Onions in Tomato & Basil Sauce
This is an easy recipe that can be a side dish as half an onion, or the main meal with more halves and the addition of some extra grains/pasta/etc to soak up the sauce. No animal products or gluten required.
Serves 3-6 (half or a whole onion) and costs about AU$2 (as of November 2025).
Based on the “Baked Onions” recipe in an old Family Circle Kids Microwave Cooking book I had as a kid.
didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.net is moving to didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.dylanleigh.net
To save US$20 per year on a domain name for a 20 year old joke, I’m moving the three sentence index page at http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.net/ to a subdomain of this site, http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.dylanleigh.net/ . There’s a redirect in place at the old site for now, but I’ll probably let the domain expire when it is due for renewal.
A plain JS demo of the Monty Hall problem
I haven’t used Javascript/ECMAscript much before - did learn the basics in my CompSci undergrad, and used a little JSX when at Kogan, but I was never that into frontend dev stuff. Trying to revise it today, I wrote this JS implementation of the “Let’s Make a Deal” game at the center of the “Monty Hall problem“.