/ Recent content on Nathan Aherne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/machine-learning-causality-discussion-pt1/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/machine-learning-causality-discussion-pt1/ I came across Judea Pearl’s ideas on causality while browsing Youtube for videos about the mathematics of machine learning and physics. A few weeks later I decided to borrow his book “The book of Why” from my local library and delve deeper into his ideas on causality. /portfolio/docker-traefik-lets-encrypt/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/docker-traefik-lets-encrypt/ I have been involved in developing web based software for quite some time now, I have been lucky to contribute to building web software solutions for government, enterprise and projects for medium and small business. /blog/2019/01/01/general_diy-fly-spray/ Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2019/01/01/general_diy-fly-spray/ This is a short post on how I discovered a great way to control flies in my house. I am not a fan of fly’s, they are probably the insect I dislike the most. /portfolio/machine-learning/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/machine-learning/ I’ve been working in the data and analytics space since I was a fresh out of university. I got a job as a data analyst at Croyden Council in London working with huge volumes of data and Microsoft Excel. /portfolio/landmark/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/landmark/ My mother did the Landmark Forum in September 2017. On the Tuesday night of her forum, she invited me to come along and see if there was something there for me. /blog/2017/12/28/stem-cruisin-co/ Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2017/12/28/stem-cruisin-co/ I learned a long time ago that combining my hobbies with my children’s interests was a win/win for everyone. I get the opportunity to be in the shed to make something cool and my children get cool toys. /blog/2017/12/20/holiday_nymboida-canoe/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2017/12/20/holiday_nymboida-canoe/ In December 2016, Luke Nicolson, his brother Adam and myself went on a 3 day, 66km canoe trip down the Nymboida river. Luke and Adam had been several times previously and for some people it had been a challenging experience. /blog/2017/12/12/construction_dining-table/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2017/12/12/construction_dining-table/ When I moved into my new house, I spent several months searching for a dining room table to replace the temporary one we had been using. /blog/2017/03/11/holiday_japan/ Sat, 11 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2017/03/11/holiday_japan/ My children (Sophie 7 and Ethan 5) and I went to Japan for a skiing holiday in February 2017. It was our first time in Japan and our first time skiing. /portfolio/mentoring/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/mentoring/ How I came to be a mentor wasn’t planned, I kind of fell into it. I had seen the QLD government advertising it’s initiatives around startups and entrepreneurs in 2016 and thought that I should checkout what the fuss was all about. /portfolio/rulerr/ Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/rulerr/ Rulerr came about from my experience in Reddog Technology and Vuid. While running Reddog Technology we realised there was a big gap in how access privileges were managed. /blog/2016/07/17/cooking_cake-hulk/ Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2016/07/17/cooking_cake-hulk/ My son’s 5th birthday was coming up and I asked him what sort of cake he would like. He considered his options for a moment and then said “a chocolate Hulk cake”. /blog/2016/07/11/construction_cubby-house/ Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2016/07/11/construction_cubby-house/ When I bought our house, my children asked for a cubby house, they wanted their own special place to hangout with their friends and make their own. /portfolio/drones/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/drones/ I got interested in Drones while living through a very cold winter while living in London in early 2002. I was sitting in my apartment in Croydon wondering what I was going to have for dinner. /blog/2015/07/11/general_excavator-fire/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2015/07/11/general_excavator-fire/ I was going through my photos the other day and found a photo from a bucks night for a good friend of mine and I felt the need to share it here. /blog/2015/07/11/construction_no-squeak-bed/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2015/07/11/construction_no-squeak-bed/ When we moved into our new house, we wanted to update all of our bed bases and matresses. The mattresses we got from Makin Mattresses but we found it difficult to choose a bed frame that we liked and which we knew would never squeak. /portfolio/robotics_lawn-mower/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/robotics_lawn-mower/ When my brothers and I finished planting all the trees for our Forestry project, we realised that we had underestimated how difficult it would be to mow the area. /blog/2015/07/11/rc_vehicles/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2015/07/11/rc_vehicles/ I am currently building this entry out as time allows. I got into remote control vehicles because of my interest and work on drones. I have owned at least 30 planes, from small foam planes to large 110cc petrol planes with 3m wingspans. /portfolio/reddog-infrastructure/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/reddog-infrastructure/ When Jason Rudolph and I started Reddog Technology, we would never have envisaged that we would need to create an asset financing company to support it and our other businesses. /portfolio/reddog-technology/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/reddog-technology/ Jason Rudolph and I started working on what would become Reddog Technology in late 2002. Our mission (which became our guiding principal) was to to create an IT company our customers loved and therefore technology solutions they loved to use and loved to pay for. /portfolio/retail/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/retail/ My family have been involved in retail businesses for more than 30 years. I worked in my families business when I was younger but felt the pull of the city and ultimately left the area. /blog/2015/07/11/stem_tracer-2215rn/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2015/07/11/stem_tracer-2215rn/ I bought the Tracer 2215RN in mid 2014 and wrote a review on it for a previous blog that I no longer run. I will post it here again but add some new information now that I have used it for more than 4 years. /portfolio/tredly/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/tredly/ While we were building Vuid we quickly realised that current hosting solutions were not able to support it’s complexity. We needed something really flexible, which could support hot updates with no downtime, be secure and completely automated and be able to support multiple developers pushing updates for the numerous Vuid Apps. /blog/2015/07/11/cooking_unicorn-poop/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2015/07/11/cooking_unicorn-poop/ My daughters 7th birthday was approaching and after the [Hulk Cake]() I made my son, I wanted to make sure my daughters birthday baking was equally awesome. /portfolio/vuid/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/vuid/ Vuid was created out of lessons learned while creating and running Reddog Technology and Reddog Infrastructure. From their launch days, both companies grew approximately 200% per annum and we quickly realised that if we didn’t start working smarter, that growth rate couldn’t continue or worse, our quality could fall. /blog/2014/02/11/fishing_dinga/ Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +1000 /blog/2014/02/11/fishing_dinga/ I haven’t been fishing in years, probably close to 8 years. I lost interest about 2 years after my friends considered me cursed and stopped inviting me fishing. /portfolio/robotics_large-servo/ Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/robotics_large-servo/ I’ve been building large remote control and robotic vehicles for a long time. I’ve found that building larger usually means they are cheaper and more robust, except for one thing, steering servos. /portfolio/forestry/ Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/forestry/ In late 2012, my family and I decided to use some land that we had, to grow timber. As with all my projects they start with a detailed plan and the hopes that I’ve not missed anything. /portfolio/polygiene/ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 /portfolio/polygiene/ My parents invested in a company who had the Australia distribution rights to Polygiene in 2008. Their co investors were two other high profile Australians who were very successful but had no startup experience. /about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /about/ About Me My professional journey started at Cromwell College at the University of QLD. I was doing a degree at QUT in Business, majoring in banking and finance. /contact/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /contact/ /clients/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /clients/