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My thoughts on AI in 2026 Q1

Introduction Technology has mostly strives to push boundaries and to try and make our lives easier. The washing machine – one of the greatest inventions ever – has made washing clothes a trivial and boring task. The simple calculator brought in the ability to quickly calculate large calculations without the need of having a log … Continued

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Programming

IsSuperUser for django-rest-framework

There is an open discussion on GitHub – https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/discussions/9746. Why the need for “IsSuperUser” We had a very specific edge case, where we only want “Super Users” to access a certain API node in NearBeach. We required any users with lower priverledges to be restricted from this node, this does include staff members. Currently – … Continued

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Personal Life

Climbing Mt Fuji, a journey up a mountain

Before I start, I want to point out that the picture of Mt Fuji I took, sadly does not convey across the concept how large it is. How high it stretches up into the sky. The fact that there are times it’ll dwarf the clouds that slowly wander by. It really is a beauty to … Continued

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Personal Life

What am I currently working on?

For the last number of years, I have been working on an Open Source Project Management system called NearBeach. What is NearBeach? An open source project management system, with a different way of thinking. Requirements Gather your user requirements (user stories), and categorise them. The requirement functionality has two levels, the parent requirement, followed by … Continued

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