Hi, I’m Ben Papacek - a software developer from Sydney.
2018‑06‑08
Went for another walk from Berowra to Cowan. Saw a Rockwarbler, which I'd never seen before. Added some photos.
2018‑05‑15
Went to see Red Fang live on Saturday, they were really good.
2018‑05‑13
Yesterday I went hiking with a friend. We went from Berowra to Cowan via Berowra Waters. It was the toughest walk I've done recently, lots of steep climbs. Took my camera but forgot the sim card, again.
2018‑04‑02
Added some photos from recent hiking in the Blue Mountains.
2018‑03‑05
Still working on another site. Started using Taiga project management software, looks pretty good. Self-hosting Taiga with the help of these scripts.
2018‑02‑11
Recently I came across this article, titled 'Soft material for soft actuators'. I tried to reproduce it but couldn't, think I got the wrong kind of silicon.
2018‑01‑07
Lots of Kotlin and Javascript this weekend. Working on a new website suggested to me by my brother-in-law at Christmas. Using the Croppie js library for image cropping. Took a while to get the hang of it but now works really well.
2017‑12‑17
Yesterday went for a walk near Leura with friends from work, added some photos.
2017‑12‑03
Lately I've been trying to work out how to use session-scoped beans in Spring properly. I think for what I want I need to set
proxyMode to ScopedProxyMode.TARGET_CLASS as described here. Still having some issues with it, but hopefully will get there.2017‑11‑26
Went for a hike near Springwood today, but forgot the SIM card for my camera so no photos. It was a very hot day but the track was great, I want to do it again.
2017‑10‑22
Added photos from a walk in the Blue Mountains.
2017‑10‑02
I've been meaning for a while now to offset my annual carbon footprint.
ACG estimates it's about 15t CO2 equivalent.
Bought offsets today through Greenfleet.
2017‑07‑23
Redeployed this yesterday for the first time in a long time. Also fixed up the nginx configuration.
2017‑07‑09
2017‑04‑30
Tank Game 2.0, now uses tilt for directional control.
2017‑04‑17
2017‑04‑17
Oops, accidentally let the SSL certificate expire. There was supposed to be a cron task updating it, but didn't work. Have to look into it.
2017‑04‑06
Helicopter Game 2.3. Added some round launcher icons for Android 7.1, forgot about that in the last one.
2017‑04‑02
Uploaded Helicopter Game 2.2 release. Fixed the rendering bug, seems like it was specific to Android Nougat (API 24+). Also got rid of yaw control (swipe left/right), didn't like it much.