Welcome to Petra’s Space

Welcome to my redesigned website. I’m a statistician and programmer from Wellington, New Zealand, who spends her days fighting with computers (don’t we all), patting my cats, reading, and playing videogames. I’m not sure anything I have to say is worth your while, but thanks for visiting my web site!

I’m most proud of my Wellington bus app (which has been lo-fi much longer than this site has) RTI Anywhere, and my @eqnz and @NZWeatherAlerts utility mastodon bots. For more information about my various bots see here.

This website redesign happened in 2023, but it looks 25 years older for the fun of it - plus, I’m increasingly of the opinion that the better software in general and websites in particular work with older computers the better. So much of my job (views are mine and not of my employer etc etc etc) is getting stuff that used to work to work again, and with Moore’s Law slowing down maybe we don’t need to keep chasing the latest trend?

Of course, lo-fi websites might also be a trend, but I think it’s a good one.

Blog

Here are my most recent blog posts:

Click here to see the full archive, and here for an RSS feed.

Find me

Really this is just an excuse for some rel="me" links on the front page, but here is where you would find me elsewhere if you wanted to:

See also my contact page for more.

Blogroll

Some websites I like:

That’s right, I don’t like any websites!

Just kidding, I just haven’t made a list yet.

Page updated: 2024-01-11