I am Rob Coles, an IT professional originally from the UK, now living in Perth, Australia.

Beginner guitar player, Sci-Fi and Fantasy reader, self-improver, follower of stoics, Dad, Grandad….

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Inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page

2025-08-05

Back in Perth after a month in Malaysia. Awesome scenery, lovely people. Re-working Obsidian vault to remove Dataview/Inline fields in favour of YAML metadata and Bases/Datacore Experimenting with Claude Code and Android apps. Effectively retired now. Still on the books (gotta love long service leave) but no longer contributing.

2025-05-15

At home in Perth, Western Australia. Using and impressed with cursor ai which has fixed some of my mistakes with the blog. Learning Python and stepping into retirement.