Bréf: where I try to explain something briefly. This weekend (9 to 11 Dec.), I competed in the Telstra Cloud Hackathon, in a team with three friends (Gabriel, Terence, and Daniel). We built Jift, a product recommendation engine that uses your friends’ Facebook likes to recommend products, along with a (unbuilt) Secret Santa component. Our hack used ReactJS on the frontend, with some very messy data-binding (courtesy of yours truly, but it’s a hack!

I have a pretty terrible habit of buying new apps very frequently. My friends can vouch for this. Following new purchases, they’re often inundated with messages from me about how ‘good’ an app is, and that they should go buy it ASAP, even if it’s not relevant to them at all. Recently, my friend Theo bought a new Mac, and asked if I had any recommendations for him. I wrote up a list and sent it to him, but I thought I might publish it on here for my future reference, and to have something to direct people to.

Today, I acquired a new domain name. It’s two letters short.

Surprisingly, I spend a lot of money on subscriptions every year. Unsurprisingly, I haven’t tallied how much I actually spend, partly because I’m a little lazy and partly because I’m scared of finding out exactly how much I spend.. So here it is. Monthly Expenditures Google Play Music & YouTube Red I pay $5.99 AUD per month for Google Play Music, now inclusive of YouTube Red, as I paid for several months in advance when they went on sale quite recently (as of 28/05/2016), but I’ll be going back to $9.