Andrew Weddle Blog

Can you write code on a plane?

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:56:11 +1000

I’ve always had mixed feelings about long-haul flights. On the one hand they usually mean travel and adventure; on the other, long hours sitting in a tin can are never fun.

So I was pleasantly surprised to find that both my recent flights with Singapore Airlines had Wi‑Fi! Streaming video was off the cards, but could you write code?

What’s the bare minimum?

It’s amazing what you take for granted. When I first asked myself this question, I thought all I needed was enough internet to Google the odd problem and read some Stack Overflow answers.

Is Nomadic Work Actually Possible

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:21:16 +0100

I’ve always wondered if I could. You know those videos from Bali showing digital nomads working on a laptop in a cafe? I’ve never seen myself being able to work effectively that way.

For me, the blocker was always a second screen.

Screen real estate

I first got a dual-screen setup somewhere between 2000 and 2002.

Two 17" CRTs. They were massive and took up nearly the whole desk. Digital photography was still in its infancy, so this photo looks like it was taken on a potato, but it’s the only one I have!

This Blog

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:56:11 +1000

Resurrecting this blog after… well, a while.

A quick history lesson

A WordPress blog on this sub-domain started back in October 2007 for very different reasons. It was trawled by The Wayback Machine showing the first post in December 2007.

I might add those articles back in later, but for now I wanted to talk tech.

I loved that WordPress blog. Even back then, WordPress was seriously impressive. I used it to build several websites for clients. Most of them were blown away by the fact that they could modify the content themselves. Remember: this was 2006–2008, and a customer managing their own content was very new.

An unplanned Side Quest into multipart/form-data

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:05:57 +1000

The Task

Recently I was asked to update an integration with Facilio. The integration sends maintenance requests from one system to Facilio Work Orders. The task was to add attachments into the integration. Facilio have an endpoint in their REST API for uploading attachments, but rather unusually it accepts multipart/form-data body rather than json or xml.

This integration is built with Power Automate and mostly with the HTTP Action. A fact that will become very important later.

Updating my Password Manager

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:36:16 +1000

Well it finally happened. I was pretty sure it was going to, I just didn’t know when.

My trusty KeePassX solution was EOL. Apple announcing the retirement of Rosetta meant KeepPassX was going to stop working. I didnt actually realise KeePassX had no longer been in active development since 2021 so it was definetly time for a change.

I been keeping my passwords in a KeePass 1 database file stored in my google drive since 2014. I use KeePassDroid on my phone and KeePassX on my MacBooks. It worked for me really well and I felt happy I wasnt subject of any of the cloud data breaches that were happening at the time and since.

Baiting Scammers

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:37:16 +1000

My current role doesn’t see me writing much code. Lots of configuring services, diagnosing errors, but nothing that looks like an IDE. It’s been nearly 18 months since I wrote any production code, and what an 18 months to miss.

Vibe coding, Claude, Chat GPT, Copilot, Cursor, all just names on Social Media posts, Meetup session events and obviously many an article on LinkedIn.

All that changes very soon. I’m launching into a fairly sizeable project in the coming weeks, one I would have deemed impossible for one person 10 years ago.