Yak Shaving and Woolly Jumpers
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Photo by Glen MacLarty – A woolly jumper being knitted (…probably not from Yak’s wool) Do all developers know the phrase “yak shaving”? Apparently not. I see it being introduced to a new generation of developers here. ...
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2018/04/16 22:54
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Government snooping and breaking encryption. Hurrah!
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I was just looking at some old photos from this time last year. A year ago the weather was a lot better and I finally made it to Bletchley Park. It filled me with chest-thumping patriotic pride to think of these code-breakers puzzling over ...
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2018/04/05 13:30
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New job at OpenCorporates
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A month ago I started a new job. This is a big deal for me because I’d been in at TransportAPI for eight years. But time for a new job in 2018! I’ve just started at OpenCorporates. OpenCorporates provides company listings data. It has a ...
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2018/02/12 02:22
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Printable Calendar tool
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Here’s a little thing I just found (I have lots of silly bits of code like this kicking around) : Printable Calendar Generate a calendar in a strip layout, suitable for printing, with lots of space for writing notes next to each date. I ...
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2017/11/18 23:49
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A tech manifesto from 2007
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I’ve just been tidying some old content on this website, which I’d written just over 10 years ago now. Back then I wrote a kind of tech manifesto, or at least a collection of various broad thoughts of tech and the IT industry I was ...
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2017/10/05 01:50
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