Local Dictation on a Mac: Parakeet, Hex, and a Cleanup Model from Ollama
Wispr-style dictation on a Mac, with the speech model and the cleanup model both running locally.
Posts by Year
2026
Local Dictation on an iPhone: Building Yabber
A dictation keyboard for my iPhone that runs Parakeet on the Neural Engine, built in an evening with Claude Code.
Tiny Helper Apps for $0: GitHub Pages, and Push Notifications from a Cloudflare Worker
Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by Dean.
The Second Arrow: A Crash Course in Emotional Non-Reactivity
Reference post: drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by Dean.
2023
Remote Collaboration
Resetting my communication ways of working in 2023
2022
Geelong Tech Meetup
A place for engineers to connect and share learnings
Host a blog for free using GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages, AWS and blogging with Jekyll
EVO #37 - Building High Performance Teams Permalink
My first podcast experience
2021
API Days Live - Australia 2021 Permalink
Modernising development using API First & Lessons Learned
Our codebase is our community Permalink
Exploring the broken windows theory
Can WSL Replace an OSX Development Environment? Permalink
Breathing new life into an older windows machine
2020
A look into the Modular Monolith Permalink
Go full circle with better engineering standards
Collaborate effectively using PlantUML for Software Engineers Permalink
Communicate and collaborate quickly as an Engineer
2019
Deploying Go + React to Heroku using Docker, Part 1 Permalink
Deploy all the things for free, easily.