Words • Pat Murray

Gallery Blog Watched Projects

2024

April 6

Tools for Last-Minute Solar Eclipse Cloud Avoidance Planning

A few websites that may be useful

2023

January 14

Annual Review

Photos of 2022

2022

April 1

Annual Review

Memories of 2021

2021

April 30

My Guide to Very Fluffy Pancakes

Some advice for tall pancakes

February 1

Annual Review

2020: My Year

It certainly was different

2020

December 7

A Decade on the App Store

I can't believe it's been ten years

April 11

Video: Postcard From Italy

Short video of my time in Venice and Milan (November 2019)

April 9

Olivetti Lettera 22

My new (old) typewriter

2019

November 27

Venice Twenty Years On

Recreating photos from Venice Italy, 20 years later

April 12

CSS Only Modal

Experiments in a JavaScript free webpage

March 30

Using JavaScriptCore in Swift

Creating a markdown parser in Swift using Javascript

March 26

Introducing ‘Demo Remote’ for macOS

A tool for seamless live coding demos!

March 14

How I Built Sharing in Atlas Wallpaper

The code and decisions behind Atlas Town

February 20

Building a URL Shortener with Netlify Redirects

The Power of Netlify + GitHub + REST APIs

January 7

Collecting Tips with Stripe + Apple Pay

Building my own Tipping page

January 1

Annual Review

2018 Year in Numbers

The fourth installment in my annual review series

January 1

How to Photograph Fireworks

Tips from Photographing Sydney NYE 2019

2018

December 13

Taking Stock of Projects

Preventing burnout before the year ends

October 6

Dynamically Generated Open Graph Images in Jekyll

Creating a plugin to generate og:images

September 27

Popular Movies I Haven’t Seen

Or trends in movie viewing habits

September 19

Wall of Apps

Building the WWDC 18 Wall of Apps in a Night

September 4

New Blog; Who Dis?

Welcome to the new Blog!

July 1

Making Stupid Shit

Bring back the fun in side projects.

January 1

Annual Review

2017 Year in Numbers

My annual report for 2017

2017

December 21

Introducing Live Memories for iPhone

September 13

Introducing Pride.Codes

April 5

Farewell Gibbs Rules — Video

Time to say goodbye to my first app :(

March 30

My Year: 2016 — Video

Video Look at My Twenty Sixteen

January 1

Annual Review

2016: A Retrospective

My 2016 annual report, with lots more words

2016

December 13

May 11

Instagram’s New Icon

March 31

Happy Birthday Apple

February 14

Review of Campo Santo’s debut game Firewatch.

January 27

Trying a New Revenue Model: Gibbs’ Rules 4.2

January 1

Annual Review

2015 in Numbers

First edition of my annual review infographic

2015

December 25

Merry Christmas From the Beach

Culburra Beach, NSW

December 21

Thoughts on Star Wars VII

November 13

‘Spectre’ Review

November 11

Pat Watched

October 25

Introducing The Collection

October 16

NCIS: Gibbs’ Rules 4.1

October 12

Thoughts on Australian Data Retention

October 9

Clovelly Beach Vignette

October 2

The Martian: Humour, Explosions, and Red Dirt

September 28

The Thrilling & Haunting Sicario

2014

December 2

The blog post that started my annual review! 🎶

October 11

National Coming Out Day

October 2

Bright-Coloured, Awesome-Tasting CandyMinimal Photography

September 24