Paul Hallett is a software engineer Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /now/ /now/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This is my now page . It's where you'll see what I am currently doing with my life. Living The majority of my free time is spent enjoying life with my family - my partner, my son, and my two cats.… /articles/paulblish-features/ /articles/paulblish-features/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paulblish supports a bunch of standard html page content, as well as a few extra nifty little things that sets it apart. Please remember: this is hyper-personalised software, so I have included the… /articles/clientele-updates/ /articles/clientele-updates/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 It's been a productive month in the Clientele project. At the time of writing we have just shipped version 1.7.0 and we're preparing the 1.8.0 release. Numbers I've merged 82 pull requests and seen… /articles/python-api-clients/ /articles/python-api-clients/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ⭐️ A beta release of this tool is now available to download and use I've spent a lot of my free time in the past few months working on Clientele , which is a project I started way back in 2023. I've… /articles/software-eng-ai-age/ /articles/software-eng-ai-age/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 I am maintaining this list actively. I work day to day in software engineering where all everyone talks about is AI and it's impact. Biases I am anti-AI when it comes to creative arts, music,… /photography/polaroid/ /photography/polaroid/ Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /photography/colour/ /photography/colour/ Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /articles/toy-cameras/ /articles/toy-cameras/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 🎧 Listen to this article as a podcast I've done a fair bit of photography in my time. Specifically analog photography. There were two events that really pulled me into the world of photography when I… /photography/toy-cameras/ /photography/toy-cameras/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /pokemon/pokemon/shiny-rotom/ /pokemon/pokemon/shiny-rotom/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Background Rotom , my favourite Pokémon. Ever since I heard about this mysterious ghost in the Old Chateau I've been intrigued. My favourite type of Pokémon is the Ghost type. Ostensibly, Pokémon is… /pokemon/pokemon/transfer/ /pokemon/pokemon/transfer/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Transfer diagram Trading on Generation IV / V You can still trade on older generation DS games. https://pkmnclassic.net/ Obtain old event Pokémon You can obtain old event Pokémon in Gen IV / V using… /pokemon/pokemon/hardware/ /pokemon/pokemon/hardware/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hardware Model Software version Memory Modded Other notes Colour Original 11.17.0-50E 2GB SD N/A My original console Black 2DS XL 11.17.0-50E 32GB SD ✅ Luma3DS 13.2.1 Purchased second hand in New… /pokemon/pokemon/games/ /pokemon/pokemon/games/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Background In 2019, just ahead of the COVID pandemic, I got nostalgic. I had just moved to New Zealand, and I was unpacking my things when I stumbled upon my original 3DS and some Pokémon games. I… /articles/life-moves-pretty-fast/ /articles/life-moves-pretty-fast/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 In the immortal words of Ferris Bueller : Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. and boy, has life moved pretty fast since 2019. I've had to… /articles/lessons-from-10-hours-of-flight-training/ /articles/lessons-from-10-hours-of-flight-training/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The biggest change to my life in 2022 was the birth of my son. I also decided that I'd commit to learning to fly before he turned 5 years old. The problem with life is that it gets in the way… /articles/remembering-stuff/ /articles/remembering-stuff/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 I struggle to remember things. Not everything. I remember the phonetic alphabet (which I need for flying). And I can name nearly every single Pokemon off by heart. I can recite various algorithms and… /articles/hypermedia-in-technology/ /articles/hypermedia-in-technology/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The concept of Hypermedia is a bit fluffy. It's an abstract concept in computing and information architecture. It deals with the concept of nonlinear connections of information in a computer system.…