I've recently upgraded my golf bag.

I had a new putter and 3 wood which are arguably two of my most important clubs.

I now have a Wilson Infinite Zero Torque 606 Putter. I've used it for a few rounds and I like the look and feel. I find I'm hitting putts slightly straighter and with better distance control.

I also have a Cobra OPTM X Fairway which I haven't actually had a chance to use in play yet. I hit it pretty well in the simulator so keen to give it a go. If I can hit it as straight as my hybrid and get 20-30 metres extra distance on some holes that would be amazing.

So my whole bag is now:

• Cobra OPTM X Fairway (4 wood)
• Callaway Elyte X (4 hybrid)
• Callaway Rogue ST Max Irons - Steel Shaft (5-PW)
• Renegar wedge (60° "Lob" Steel Shaft)
• Wilson Infinite Zero Torque 606 Putter

Ball wise I prefer to play with Bridgestone Tour B XS.

Really my clubs are now solid. The only thing left is potentially some wedges to fill the gap between my pitching wedge and the 60. Honestly though, I kind of like hitting my pitching wedge with half swings to fill this gap.

Some more photos over the past week or so. Been a challenging few weeks but having Emma, Spuddy and Till with me has been what I needed.

I played a bunch of Mina the Hollower over the weekend and the game has really clicked for me now. I'm about 70% of the way through. There was definitely a decent learning curve. I've also relied a bunch on guides, but it really has been great overall!

Maybe I should also look at the Ping G440. I think the Qi10 will be cheaper because it's an older model but it's worth testing both.

The advice I had myself from yesterday wasn't good.

• Off the tee hit your shot that's worked for many years, open up your hips (pointing left) to look like your playing a fade, feel like you're swinging in a straight line through the ball
• Tee the ball low, on practice swing feel like you're brushing the grass or at least taking a bit of a divot
• Swing with confidence, don't need to hit the ball hard just be in control and swing without thoughts
• I quite like the look of the Qi10 Fairway, maybe I go hit a few balls with it at a Drummond golf or somewhere like that just to check, I could also book a fitting at my local club
• I feel like with the Qi10 and a new putter it will give me a lot more confidence on course

I've updated the blog to have a uniform set of standards for styling anchor tags. It was previously a bit of a dogs breakfast with lots of different urls everywhere. Things are much more clean now. It was the perfect task for AI.

I also added a dark mode yesterday which is not super necessary but a fun little feature.

An app idea I'd like to build.

A combo of the Mac app Bike with the convenience and feature set of the iOS and Mac app Tot.

I basically want outliner functionality (Bike) with the convenience and sync engine of Tot.

It should handle urls perfectly and have limited notes; kind of like what Tot does.

I think it wouldn't be too hard to vibe code. At least starting off with the Electron Mac app could be kind of interesting.

Two best friends. Even though Till tries to bite him and she a tuft of his fur in her mouth every day.

I had my first morning practice session really ever at golf this morning. A couple of things:

• Work on my bunt hybrid, I've been missing a lot of fairways recently and need to get back on track, what seems to work is gripping lower on the club and not swinging too hard, also ensuring that the ball is teed low and I take a little bit of ground on the way through, even if it only goes 150 metres if I'm still in the fairway it's a good result
• There's no need to do a big change in my grip, just make sure it doesn't get too strong
• I want to eventually get a new putter (Wilson Infinite ZT Putter) and I'll get a new 3/5 wood too, I'm not 100% sure what 3 wood I'll end up getting, to the some money for this I'll sell my external computer display which I've barely been using for work
• I probably should have some lessons when I get this new club to build up some confidence

Do I feel actively called out here? Yes very much so.

By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you've done the prior steps). Making that effort is value you can add.

Take code review in particular. Shipping some code can be done with close to zero effort now: Copy/paste the ticket description into Claude Code. Don't look at the code or read what Claude has written. If there's any feedback from reviewers, copy/paste that into Claude Code as well. If necessary, iterate.

That works. But who has done the implementation? The reviewers did, using Claude Code, and you as a meat proxy.

These songs are still as good as they ever were. This makes me laugh every time.

This looks like such a beautiful golf course. A Scottish golf trip would be epic.

Went to Sydney for work this week. It's a gorgeous city. Melbourne is still better though.

I rolled some putts today at Drummond Golf. I really liked the Wilson Infinite ZT putter 606 model. I liked the weight and the feel of the club (35 inch shaft length). It's also at my price point (~$300). Will try and save up for one to get it soon.

I need a new putter. It's the last part of my golf gear that's still kind of lacking.

I currently have an old Wilson Pro Staff PT which I'll sell for probably only ~$50.

I then want to upgrade to a TaylorMade Spider Tour Putter which usually retail for around $450. Will need to save up my personal money to get it.

Man that England loss was deflating. The way they played after the goal was really poor.

1. Build a pile of paper knots in the middle of the pit
2. Assemble kindling kind of like a jenga tower around the knots
3. Put a good fire lighter into the middle of the tower and paper
4. Light the fire lighter, it should catch onto the paper and then on the jenga tower
5. Once you've got a good fire going put in a bigger log, this should create coals which you can use to continuously burn new big pieces of wood

Last night I found out the hard way that Plex can be a bit dodgy on Tizen based TVs.

The server was streaming all my movies files correctly but the Tizen client was failing and having weird errors. I was getting this error about enabling verbose logging

07/13/2026 20:27:33:836 [harriso7742:b16b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] ERROR [AVPlay (IDLE)] onAVPlayError: PLAYER_ERROR_GENEREIC
07/13/202620:27:33:847 20:27:33:847[harriso7742:bl6b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] INFO [PlaybackSessionController] playback state changed to: stopped
07/13/202620:27:33:899 [harriso7742:bl6b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] WARN Failed to send transcode action stop to source:
server://22932413d4166c699b3abe0069f65d4e37899862/com.plexapp.plugins.library/library/metadata/3
07/13/2026 20:27:33:901 [harriso7742:bl6b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] ERROR Playback error occurred. Reason: FailedToSetupOrCreatePlayer, Failed to create or setup player! Message: An unexpected playback problem occurred.
07/13/2026 20:27:33:911 [harriso7742:bl6b54il9onefoizxgdqq4mp] WARN [PlaybackSessionController] could not retry, reporting error

which was very frustrating and no real solution seemed possible even with AIs help.

Then the stream just started randomly working after trying different settings for like 45 minutes. Not really sure what I changed but it worked so I guess that's good?

I might also install Emby server and the client app on my TV as a backup just in case for these situations. I assume the library should just work the same. I wanted to install Jellyfin but sadly their Tizen client isn't available in the app store.

I also realised that on macOS the native Plex client is trash; you're actually better off using the web app at app.plex.tv.

I wanted to store all of my golf scores in a local database but it's just not really that feasible or that useful. From now on just use the Golf Australia app which keeps track of my handicap as well as my scores.

For some reason all the hole by hole scores are not available from pre 2026 though? I still have all my final Stableford scores at least.

I've been very volatile with golf lately. On Sunday I had one of the craziest rounds ever; a nightmare start and then played extremely well from hole 5 onwards (minus hole 9 and 18) to still record an okay final Stableford score (30). My putting really saved the day. I hit some nice lag putts and dropped a couple of bombs for par.

I was actually on track for my lowest ever back 9 score with all pars from 10-15, bogey on 16, par 17 (so +1 though 8) but then a disappointing pickup on 18.

Some notes:

• I need to try and hit more fairways, I've been quite streaky off the tee
• I should try and go down to the range at least once a week, focus on getting tee shots in the fairway and hitting solid irons
• When I'm getting a bit messy off the tee it's usually a right to left hook, I think if I weaken my grip a little bit this could help, I'm still getting into good spots when I hit good tee shots with my 4 hybrid even off the blue tees so I don't think club choice is necessarily the problem
• To help with the grip issue I'm getting this, I should do regular practice with it
• I will eventually purchase a new 5 wood for my bag, I'm also currently getting my pitching wedge fixed as it broke on a round a few weeks ago (I accidentally swung the club into a tree and it snapped) so I need to think about where my money is going