This is a list of some of the most popular, interesting, fascinating, well-written, inspiring, and thought-provoking blog posts I’ve written. There are posts that may not have received a lot of readership, but are close to my heart or have great significance to my life. I created this list so I could direct new readers to some of my best work and to get a better idea of who I am. The quality and calibre of my writing has improved over time, so naturally, posts that have been here may be removed over the course of time.
Last updated 30 June 2026.
Top 10 ❤️🔥
- Being a Chinese-Indonesian Australian: My story of internalised racism
- 2025: The year of trauma
- The “golden era” of blogging
- Postcards from Phoenix: Tale of a (finally successful) mission
- ADHD, meet Georgie. Georgie, meet ADHD.
- Dear XOXO
- My experience studying a Masters degree full-time, while working full-time
- What I’ve learned about web communities from public speaking
- After a ten year break, I’m reading again
- Names are complex: Displaying initials for an avatar component in a design system
The rest
In alphabetical order. Some of these posts are quite old and may reference situations that are no longer current. Think of them as documenting a moment in time.
- 2020: The Real Year of Gratitude
- 🌵 Our DIY succulent wedding favours
- A little ray of sunshine
- A quote only goes so far
- Anatomy of a flatlay photograph
- Fairy Dust (poetry – includes audio)
- Goodbye, purple guitar pick necklace
- Healing from toxic hackathon culture
- How I got into photography
- How to make presentations & talks more accessible and inclusive
- I can wear whatever the hell I want, and no matter what you say, I’m still an engineer
- I didn’t mean to become a web developer, it just happened
- I have trypophobia, and this is what it’s like.
- I mentor people, because I want to give them the opportunities I didn’t have.
- I wanted to be a geologist
- My 8 photos of happiness
- My Blogging Values
- My wonderful, much-loved blog
- Passion is immeasurable
- Performance Goals vs. Learning Goals
- Questions I get as a pescetarian
- Real-life relationships on the internet
- Snapchat and the Abomination of the Selfie
- So long & thanks for all the fish
- The end is the beginning
- The League of Evil Fonts
- The Pacman Clone
- The Sick vs. The Workaholic
- The story of Georgie
- The Tale of Fortune Jimmy: A PayPal Scam
- The Teapot Debacle
- The turnover of friends
- The twelve year battle is over.
- The twelve year battle is over. (part II)
- The two separate pillars of “working on the internet”
- There is nothing surprising about a woman in tech
- Way to be loved
- What I could have been
- When people go missing
- “Why are they all white men?”
- Why ‘growth hacking’ doesn’t really work for old-school bloggers
- Why I listen to metal music
- Women don’t think they’re better than anyone. They just want to be respected