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I come up with lots of ideas for potential applications, businesses, stories and random other things.

My role has changed recently to include another team. This has also included more interaction with other areas of the business and also the management team.

A task can often look too big to tackle. It can become very daunting even in deciding where to start.

Sometimes a decision comes with a cost, a sacrifice.

In the book Leaders Eat Last Simon Sinek says:

When I grew up I had an old 35mm Praktica camera that was given to me. I purchased some lenses for it and mostly used it to take pictures of the Somerset cricket matches I went to watch.

Turbo Pascal is 40 years old and it had a big impact on the direction of my career.

There is a quote “A backup is not a backup unless you have recently performed a restore from it”; I got to find this out the hard way.

We have manuals and guides for the software we use. We have a manual for the car we drive. Why not the house?

An oh no second is that moment in time when you realise that you have done something potentially catastrophic and your stomach turns to mush with the dread and realisation.

The role of the software developer is set for a major upheaval over the coming years.