Michael Gale

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Michael is a web developer based in Melbourne, Australia. He specialises in building accessible, performant, and secure websites and applications.

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www.michaelgale.dev

Specializations:

Web Developer

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2025-09-17 • reflection personal essay memory environment objects

The author reflects on the unknown history and journey of a worn sleeping bag, contemplating its previous owners, the damage it has sustained, and its potential future. The narrative explores themes of memory, impermanence, and th...

2025-11-06 • web development blogging ci/cd categories personal projects

The author discusses recent updates made to their blog, including the implementation of a category system for organizing content, which took considerable effort after years of procrastination. They detail the process of auditing p...

2025-10-12 • privacy ethics alternative life choices critique

The author, Michael Gale, outlines various tech products and services he consciously avoids, providing alternatives and reasoning for his choices. He critiques major companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, and Sp...

2025-10-05 • programming optimization laundry efficiency metrics household items

The blog post discusses optimizing household chores, particularly laundry hanging, by applying programming concepts such as functions and algorithms. It outlines methods for optimizing input (pre-sorting laundry), processing (effi...

2025-09-10 • photography software linux photo editing tools darktable

The author discusses the process of transferring photos from a Canon 200D II camera to a computer using a Micro USB cable, highlighting the lack of a dedicated Canon transfer utility for Linux. They share their experience with the...

2025-07-11 • sustainable living community mental health lifestyle self improvement

The blog post by Michael Gale discusses various small acts of rebellion that can help individuals regain a sense of control in a chaotic world. It includes a personal list of suggestions such as riding a bike, shopping locally, an...

2025-11-07 • webmention mastodon posse integration

This post serves as a test to verify the functionality of webmentions and Mastodon integration on the author's blog. The author encourages readers to interact with the post through likes, comments, and shares, emphasizing the impo...

2025-10-12 • productivity self-help organization life hacks

The post shares a collection of practical ideas and habits that the author has adopted from more intelligent individuals. Key points include creating more than consuming, allowing others to be wrong, using caffeine as a reward, or...

2025-09-09 • vegetarian proton switching values lifestyle

The post discusses the concept of 'slow-switching,' which refers to the gradual process of changing from one product or service to another, driven by personal values. The author shares their experience of transitioning from meat-e...

2025-03-22 • productivity music book photography houseplants content management system keyboard

The author discusses various topics in this post, including a new productivity system, a book he finished, a new keyboard he purchased, his experience at Drupal South Melbourne 2025, his plant troubles, his band recording new musi...

2025-03-16 • web development technology conference content management system

The post is a digitization of the hand-written notes taken during Drupal South 2025. It includes a summary of the talks from the event, covering topics such as humanizing technology, user research, automating attendance, CSS, CMS ...

2025-03-01 • web hosting front end development backend continuous integration and delivery nuxt.js monorepo

The author discusses the history of his website project, including static and private hosting, and the challenges he faced with different repositories and Nuxt layers. He ultimately transitioned to a monorepo structure for continu...

2025-02-12 • network hardware home lab the legend of zelda

The text discusses the author's home lab network, consisting of devices named after Zelda characters, and how they work together to produce a single quantified outcome. The author feels a sense of ownership over the setup and high...

2025-01-07 •

The text is a complete timeline of the author's progress updates and final submission notes for a miniature painting competition. The author started assembling the first model on July 25, 2024, and faced various challenges through...

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2024-12-17 •

The text is a list of cool things to do and try, including changing to ethical bank and telco, using alternative search engines and social media, supporting local music, and adopting a pet from a shelter.

2024-09-04 •

The text is about the process of releasing an album on a floppy disk. The author discusses sourcing a USB drive, second-hand floppy disks, and jewel cases, creating labels, and printing artwork for the first physical release of hi...

2024-07-14 •

The post is about the technical process of getting music to fit onto a 1.4MB floppy disk. The author released their second album through Bandcamp and then released it on a floppy disk. The post details the process of concatenating...

2024-07-09 •

The text is about the author's small format posts, snippets of information, and useful stuff. It includes an archive of short-form notes, updates on the author's website, and personal achievements. The author also mentions recover...

2024-06-30 •

The post discusses the issues of using an Apple keyboard on Linux and the app Kinto.sh that remaps keyboard inputs to places expected by macOS users. The author shares the issues faced and the solutions found while using Kinto.sh ...

2024-06-16 •

The author shares their experience of testing their website using the Lynx browser, and how they made adjustments to ensure the website works well in a text-only environment. They also identified and fixed some bugs related to int...

2024-05-19 •

Michael Gale released his debut solo album 'Every Alterations' under the stage name Whalebones. The album represents years of music experimentation and is about abandoning perfectionism and embracing incomplete works in progress. ...

2024-05-15 •

The text discusses the challenges of version control and dependency management in music production and proposes a semantic versioning system to address these issues. It outlines the format for versioning music and explains the sig...

2024-05-04 •

The text is a travel diary of a trip to Tasmania, including details of the activities, food, and sights experienced each day. The trip was originally planned for 2019 but was postponed due to COVID-19. The author describes their e...