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The secret history of Ctrl+Alt+Del
  • October 16, 2018

The background to why the famous “three finger salute” was chosen to be so difficult to do.


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Solving a Dell laptop freezing
  • August 28, 2022

I have a Dell XPS13 laptop and it developed this really annoying habit of randomly freezing for a few seconds and then carrying on as if nothing had happened. It quite often happened in the middle of a work call which made it pretty much unusable.


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Abandoning the baggage of Agile
  • July 13, 2018

I have worked with various flavours of “Agile” over numerous years. These have ranged from the very formal where everything is done by the book to more ad-hoc versions where different parts are cherry picked or in most cases done because people think they should be done.


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