My avatar — A pixelated self-portrait in the style of the 'bitizens' in the mobile game Tiny Tower

Death.au's Domain

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Gordon Pedersen

a.k.a. death.au

@[email protected]

I am a software developer and tinkerer based in Melbourne, Australia. Check out my CV

Where you can find me:

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I'm making progress in my Safari safari. I have the full cycle of communication from web view → app → extension → app extension → app → web view. https://death.id.au/b4.0015

Going on Safari (Chapter Two)

ℹ️This is part of a series I'm writing documenting my efforts to establish native messaging communication between my MarkDownload web extension and a native app. Go check out the motivation or my previous efforts Okay, so, where I left off last time was being able to communicate…

Setting up camp after the first leg of my Safari safari. I feel like I've learned a lot but gotten nowhere? https://death.id.au/b4.0014

Going on Safari (Chapter One)

As mentioned in my previous blog post, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding native messaging. I couldn't figure out how to communicate properly via stdin/stdout from a MacOS Swift app. If anyone has any pointers, that would greatly simplify the process; because oh…

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I'm going on Safari... Down a rabbit hole of native messaging and inter-process communication. Join me: https://death.id.au/b4.0013

Going on Safari (Prologue)

I'm currently working on a complete rewrite of my browser extension, MarkDownload. In the current version, most of my logic and processing takes place on a persistent background page. An invisible webpage, just sitting there taking up memory, waiting for someone to click that button and get the…

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Book week parade at school today. As usual, so many Harry Potters, but respect to the one Hufflepuff among the Gryffindors.

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I like my blog and want to use it more, but what sort of content could I create that ends up marketable and profitable?

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I'm looking into things I could possibly do for work that are outside of my normal (i.e. software/web development). The idea of proofreading is sticking with me. It's something I've done in all aspects of my work for many different people.

So, how do I find people who need proofreading work?

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My brain has just hit a procrastination lock-up. I don't know what to do, or what I should be doing