David Gardiner

Not long now until #DDDAdelaide 2026! The agenda is all lined up and tickets are on sale now. Dont miss your chance to secure your day of talks, food, community and coffee! Tickets will not last forever so do secure them now before you miss your chance! dddadelaide.com/tickets dddadelaide.com/agenda

Blogged: Towing with a Kia EV5 We'd ordered a towbar to be fitted to our new Kia EV. But given it's only the base model what is the experience trying to tow a trailer? https://david.gardiner.net.au/2026/10/kia-ev5-towing #Energy #Family

Blogged: WebSub notifications when my blog has new content Using the WebSub protocol to notify interested parties that there's new content on my blog https://david.gardiner.net.au/2026/10/websub #Blogging #GitHubActions

Join @callumbwhyte.bsky.social at #DDDAdelaide 2026 as they present "Designed To Fail: Building Resilient Applications". You will learn how caching, queues, retries, circuit breakers and observability help systems fail gracefully and recover. Learn more here: dddadelaide.com/agenda/2026/...

And that also confirms that my blog can post automatically to Bluesky

Blogged: Verify.Cli GitHub Action A GitHub Action for doing snapshot testing against files directly in your workflow https://david.gardiner.net.au/2026/10/verify-cli-github-action #GitHubActions #Testing

A big shoutout to @splose.com for sponsoring #DDDAdelaide 2026 as a Gold Sponsor! We're so grateful for your help putting on another great event for the South Australian tech community, and we are always excited to have the team along with us on the day.

We're grateful to have Encode Talent on board again as a Gold Sponsor for #DDDAdelaide 2026. Thanks for backing the South Australian tech scene once more, we can't wait to have Simon and Kristine there on the day and watch it all come together in person.

The #DDDAdelaide 2026 agenda is live! Every talk on that list was submitted and voted in by the community itself, so head to the website, have a look through the lineup, and start planning which sessions you want to catch on the day. You helped choose them ❤️ dddadelaide.com/agenda

I wrote this for me; now you can read it too. It’s been in draft for years. I was recently a guest on the .NET Rocks podcast on the topic, that episode landed today, which made me revisit and finally get the post out of drafts: Taking control of your digital legacy www.devlead.se/posts/2026/2...

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Voting for #DDDAdelaide 2026 talks closes today. If you haven't cast your votes yet, get onto the site before the polls shut tonight. So thank you for helping shape what's going to prove to be another great day for the South Australian tech community. dddadelaide.com/voting

Blogged: Troubleshooting GitHub Package NuGet feeds with GitHub Make sure you configure the actions/setup-dotnet action correctly to set up the right .NET SDK and authenticate to a GitHub Packages NuGet feed. david.gardiner.net.au/2026/09/acti... #dotnet #GitHubActions #NuGet

U-matic. The 70s video tape format you’ve never heard of. Cheers to @flemishdog.bsky.social

Blogged: SA Power Networks meter data david.gardiner.net.au/2026/09/sapo... I built a .NET tool to download our electricity data, and then used that to create a Home Assistant integration for doing the same. #dotnet #energy #homeassistant #southaustralia

Voting for #DDDAdelaide 2026 talks closes next week. If you haven't picked your favourites yet, now's a great time to get in there and have your say. The talks with the most votes get first pick of the agenda spots, so every single vote really counts. dddadelaide.com/voting

Big thanks to Encode Talent for sponsoring #DDDAdelaide 2026 as a Gold Sponsor! Support like this is what makes this event possible year on year, and we're truly grateful to have a sponsor who understands what this community is trying to build together.

It's time! It's been a fascinating year in tech. There's a lot to talk about. Submit your talks now! dddbrisbane.com

Voting for #DDDAdelaide 2026 talks closes in two weeks. If you haven't had a chance to look through the submissions yet, it's worth setting aside a few minutes to do it soon. Your vote really does help shape which talks make it onto this year's agenda. dddadelaide.com/voting

Just got reminded of a bug I apparently helped fix in Firefox 20 years ago! I'd forgotten all about it - from the looks of it this was a regression from a feature I'd contributed to improve copy/paste format support. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi... #Mozilla #Firefox

Finished my second day volunteering at the Red Dove Cafe at the Royal Adelaide Show. Yesterday I was on sandwiches, today I was on the servery doing hot meals. Fun and worthwhile, sprinkled with the odd bit of pressure when a few orders all came in at once. #TheShow #Adelaide #AdelaideShow

#DDDAdelaide 2026 just wouldn't feel the same without Octopus Deploy backing us as a Gold Sponsor again this year. Their ongoing support gives us the room to focus on putting on a great event rather than worrying about the budget. Thank you for believing in us.

does anyone using Verify need help moving to inline snapshots? i am happy PR to OSS github.com/VerifyTests/...

Excited to welcome SA Power Networks on board as a brand new sponsor for #DDDAdelaide 2026! It's always great seeing a new business get behind this community, and having the team along for the very first time this year is going to be a fun one to watch unfold.

When your son and daughter in-law drop in on their way to church with a lovely surprise🙂 And yes, my son knows me well, that is a drawing of an Iced VoVo biscuit❤️ #FathersDay

Time is genuinely running out, the CFP for #DDDAdelaide 2026 closes tomorrow. If you've got a talk idea sitting there unsubmitted, this is your last real chance to send it through, because after tomorrow the window is closed and that's it for another year. dddadelaide.com/call-for-pre...

Encode Talent is back as a Gold Sponsor for #DDDAdelaide 2026, thank you for coming back! Helping us bring the South Australian tech community together again this year means a lot, and it's great to have a sponsor who keeps showing up for us like this.

Weekend plans? Submit to #DDDAdelaide CFP before they close this Sunday! We are always blown away by the amazing submissions, and this is your chance to be one of them. Submission is what makes the event tick! dddadelaide.com/call-for-pre...

Sunday is the CFP deadline for #DDDAdelaide 2026. If you're on the fence about whether your talk idea is good enough, that's exactly what the community vote is for, so let people decide for themselves. Submit it and give your idea a fair shot at the agenda.

Blogged: Evnex E2 Plus EV Charger The EV charger we got, and how to manage it and monitor it with the Home Assistant integration. david.gardiner.net.au/2026/08/evnex #Energy #EV #ElectricVehicle #Evnex #EVCharger #HomeAssistant

A big thank you to @intopia.bsky.social for coming back as our Major Prize Sponsor for #DDDAdelaide 2026! Their focus on accessibility and inclusion lines up beautifully with what we care about as a community, and we're grateful for the support behind it.

Blogged: Replacing our solar panels david.gardiner.net.au/2026/08/new-... #Energy #Solar #HomeAssistant

Joel Small has decided to do something a bit different this year and sponsor #DDDAdelaide as a individual! We loved the enthusiasm and couldn't say no to working with him! Lets all give him a warm welcome and thanks!

Verify now supports inline snapshots github.com/VerifyTests/...

Blogged: We got an EV! david.gardiner.net.au/2026/08/kia-... #Energy #EV #ElectricVehicles

I've been struggling with mental and physical health issues for the past few years, and one of the things that really helped this year was finding a hobby away from technology where I get to work with my hands. Here's what I've been doing: pottery.valorin.net

Beautiful afternoon at Milang today #Milang #SouthAustralia

Early bird prize draw entries for #DDDAdelaide 2026 close next week. If grabbing a ticket has been sitting on your to do list for a while now, this is your personal nudge to sort it out and get in the running for the prize before entries wrap up for the year.

New release: SqlQueryStress v0.9.8.102! Ready to benchmark your queries? Download the latest build and start testing in minutes: github.com/ErikEJ/SqlQu...

Thanks to @sixpivot.bsky.social for coming on board as a sponsor for #DDDAdelaide 2026! Support for the local community is what keeps this event running and accessible, and we're really glad to have you backing the South Australian tech community again this year.

It's time for Aspire 13.5 🎨💫 Run a fully interactive terminal inside the refreshed dashboard UI and deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster, all from a single TS or C# file! Blog: devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/whats... Full What's New: aspire.dev/whats-new/as...

Blogged: Solar panel problems When you start getting emails from your solar inverter, you know something isn't quite right. david.gardiner.net.au/2026/08/sola... #Solar #Energy

Blogged - Power Posts I've wanted to write some blog posts on a range of topics all related to energy, but have had trouble knowing where to start. Maybe this post will help unblock me david.gardiner.net.au/2026/08/powe... #Energy #Electricity #EV #HomeAssistant #Solar

This is on tonight at the West Oak Hotel, Hindley St (near City West Campus). 3 rounds of tech questions and 1 round of non-tech general knowledge (just to keep everyone on their toes), and yes there will be some prizes for the winning table! Love to see you there. #Adelaide #dotnet #QuizNight

A big thank you to Fivecast for sponsoring #DDDAdelaide 2026! Our local South Australian sponsors mean so much to us, they're proof the tech scene here is actually investing in itself. Thanks for backing this community again this year, it makes a real difference.

Friendly reminder that the CFP for #DDDAdelaide 2026 is open. You don't need a finished deck or a polished pitch, just a rough idea and the willingness to give it a go. Some of our favourite speakers each year were people who almost didn't submit at all! dddadelaide.com

Early bird tickets for #DDDAdelaide 2026 are still available, and they come with a nice little perk: entry into our early bird prize draw. It's only around for a bit longer though, so grab yours before it wraps up on the 28th of August if you want a shot. dddadelaide.com

The CFP for #DDDAdelaide 2026 is open, and we could not be more excited. This whole event runs on talks submitted by the community and voted in by the community, for the community. So go on, submit the talk you'd actually want to sit in and hear yourself. dddadelaide.com