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The endless search for a task tracker
  • September 21, 2025

I have tried lots of different ways to track tasks, or have a to do list, and they have all failed at some point.


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Performing a department review/reboot
  • September 5, 2025

Just before I recently went on holiday our CEO set me some “homework”.


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Slack ramblings
  • September 4, 2025

I used to capture all my thoughts and things I was working on in a text file at work but this approach slowly died. I use a WhatsApp chat with only me in it to capture random personal stuff at the moment.


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I learnt this week - 19th June 2025
  • June 19, 2025

The links today include lessons from an angry meeting, Internet artifacts, the developer tooling industry, the length of media and a writing tip.


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My Life in a Book
  • June 13, 2025

Last year I bought my mum a year subscription to My Life in a Book.


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Unusual photos of instruments
  • June 6, 2025

I recently did a photography course in London where one of the main learnings was how you can make photographs more interesting by using unusual angles and reflections.


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ChatGPT version reference
  • June 6, 2025

This will become out of date quickly but a useful guide for which models to use for which tasks and which to avoid.


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MCP is not (quite) RSS
  • May 30, 2025

RSS is a technology I have relied on for years.


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Positive feedback
  • May 28, 2025

I was doing a 1:1 meeting recently and we talked about their code reviews of a recent joiner.


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Introduction to Rust
  • May 28, 2025

Chris Woodruff produced an excellent series of posts to introduce the C# developer to the language of Rust.


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