My Posts

The space elevator

This is a beautiful interactive webpage to illustrate the height/altitude of different things and how a potential future space elevator would relate to them.


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Podcasts with bookmarks

I listen to quite a lot of podcasts. I have been using Spotify but recently switched, most of the time, to using an app called Snipd.


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How do you define a good hotel?

A recent stay at a hotel got me thinking about what defines a good hotel?


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Lex, an AI assisted editor

Lex.page was one of the first AI assisted editors available.


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Uncovering the Benefits of AI Search Engine Perplexity.ai

I have tried to avoid writing about AI as everyone seems to be doing it however I have found one site that is pretty usable and actually seems to work quite well.


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Don't steal the towels

I recently stayed at a hotel and a small sticker in the bathroom caught my attention.


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Load balancing algorithms

Sometimes you come across a post that is so brilliantly put together you have to share it - and I am not talking about any of my posts.


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A local version of AWS

One of the things that has deterred me from doing much personally in the cloud has been the potential cost.


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Music to focus

When I am working I like to have music in the background to help me focus. I find, like a lot of people, that it needs to be music without lyrics most of the time.


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Hyper-V on Windows 11 Home

I am dabbling with .NET Maui and developing an application for Android. Tied to that I have just changed laptop. On my previous laptop I had Windows 11 Pro but the new one has Windows 11 Home.


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