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Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Low FODMAP Biryiani

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:30:00 +0000

A recipe for biriyani, modified for those with dietary restrictions.

v3 Gallery

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:47:00 +0000

Updating the gallery on this site has been an on-again off-again project for a long time. Mainly because I was running in to some issues with Expose. This version is built as a project from the ground up: exercising my rusty front-end “skills” and seeing how some of the Gemini tooling can help with such projects.

The new gallery is at p.rob.sh/v3.

Lessons from Career Coaching

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:27:01 +0000

In the autumn of 2022, I got an opportunity to attend an external leadership course. One of the things that it involved was some coaching sessions. I didn’t really think that talking to someone about work was something that I needed (and honestly probably didn’t understand what a coach did…), but engaged with it anyway.

Cue the start of 2023 — Google went through some big changes, and unfortunately, my health took another downturn. At the same time, I was personally struggling with balancing the work that I was doing leading a wider technical team (especially with layoffs impacting their direct management), driving an innovation project (which I was mostly doing out of hours), and keeping myself healthy.

SailGP San Francisco

Sun, 07 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

SailGP's event on the San Francisco Bay, May 2023

Big Pine Lakes

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:00:00 +0000

We spent a few days in the High Sierra, off the grid, hiking the Big Pine Lakes trails. Highly recommended.

I uploaded a gallery of some photography from that trip, including a few taken as we passed through Yosemite.

The gallery can be found here.

Lake 1: Big Pine Lakes Trail, High Sierra, CA.

Photo gallery

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:41:00 +0000

A while ago, I removed my instagram account. Since then I have been wanting to find a way to share a photography portfolio. I’ve been taking more photos over the last few years, currently using a Canon R5 mirrorless, mainly with the RF 28-70 f/2 lense, but sometimes with the 100-500mm (again, sometimes with the 2x multiplier), 16mm f/1.8 prime, and 50mm f/1.8 prime.

I decided to use the rather excellent Expose to give a scroll-through experience rather than the usual “select a thumbnail”. Thanks to Jack Qiao for open sourcing it!

Brain Fog

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 07:55:00 +0000

I originally posted this as a comment on hackernews in response to a post about this article in The Atlantic. I have briefly shared thoughts in a few contexts about the chronic health conditions that I experience, and wanted to share something here as it was very interesting to me to see brain fog, especially that which has developed post-infectiously, discussed in this forum. I have looked for a community in tech that suffers from chronic health issues, especially outside of my direct company, and not really found one. If you happen to stumble upon this post, and would be interested chatting about it - I’m always open to such discussions.

Radio silence

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 19:45:00 +0000

For more regular updates, you can generally find me on instagram, or Héloïse on instagram.

Héloïse on Mt. Tam at Sunrise - October 2021

Michelin Stars for Celiacs: Angler, San Francisco: Not recommended

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 21:30:00 +0000

As some folks might be aware, I became allergic to gluten and dairy through the spring of 2019, and have been avoiding them in my diet since. Becca and I have not lost our passion for eating great foods, and visiting some of the fantastic restaurants in the cities we visit (although, in 2020, this has meant a lot of places in the Bay Area). One of the things that we’ve struggled a bit with is finding out how well some of the Michelin star establishments handle the gluten-free, dairy-free diet. This weekend, after a visit to Angler - down on the Embarcadero, here in San Francisco - we discussed that it’d be useful if there was more information available for folks that are celiac and interested in fine dining. So this is the first post – I’ll try and add some reviews of previous places we’ve eaten through the next few weeks.

Silence isn't OK: Black Lives Matter

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:30:00 +0000

I haven’t ever used this site to post anything about my political beliefs. I’m compelled to right now, because of what is happening in my adopted home country.

In a time where a great leveller has impacted everyone’s life, where circumstances beyond our control have impacted an aspect of everyone’s plans

we couldn’t use this time to unite and have compassion for all humans. The outrage at events in Minneapolis has spread across the US - and rightly so. In doing so, it has brought a major issue in our society to the fore. We shouldn’t need reminding that people should not be treated differently based on the colour of their skin, but it is something that our society has quietly chosen to sweep under the carpet, and ignore. It shouldn’t need to be explicitly stated, but it is essential that we say it out loud, and repeat it: Black Lives Matter.

Why am I posting this? Here are a few of the things that I believe, that I want to explicitly state - as food for thought. I do not claim that these are novel ideas - they’re not. I don’t claim they are ideas that everyone will agree with. I just ask that you spend a little time thinking about them.

Swing

Sun, 14 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Inspired by Becca on the swing at Bernal Heights.
October 2018, spray paint on layered card.

Cryptocurrencies

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:30:00 +0000

The concept of having no central entity control currency seems attractive to a lot of people. However, trust in some decentralised entity means trusting the way that they operate their business - how they’re able to audit their code, and write bug-free software. The only thing I know about software is that it isn’t ever bug-free. To reduce MTBF, you implement things multiple times, in disjoint environments.

That said, the latest hack on a cryptocurrency/smart wallet I saw, made me wonder about their testing. How many bugs are they looking for, in terms of both their standard operating environment, as well as for security.