My Posts

Free learning list

• April 8, 2023

The freelearninglist.org website identifies the best education resources for each type of platform.

Picking ideas

• April 7, 2023

I have a file with 400+ ideas for businesses, products, books, etc. So finding ideas is relatively easy. However validating and picking ideas is more of a challenge.

Decide who decides

• February 12, 2023

As many of my posts start, I was listening to a podcast. This was a startup founder who was talking about the company she started with a partner and how they handled decisions where the two of them didn’t agree about something.

Strategies for starting something new

• February 4, 2023

Most people struggle with the blank page and starting something new. This episode of the podcast Spark & Fire has snippets from interviews with 5 different people and how they start something new or overcome writers block.

Twitter to Mastodon

• February 3, 2023

It definitely feels like Twitter is slowly dying.

I have used Twitter for years, definitely more as a consumer than a publisher. During this time I have refined the accounts I follow to provide a clean and useful stream of information. This was aided by the use of Flamingo as my client of choice which provided a feed free of adverts and cruft.

The world in photos

• February 2, 2023

I recently came across two different websites that allow you to look at the world through photos in two completely different ways. The first site is called ChronoPhoto. It displays a photograph and you have to guess when it was taken - the closer to the correct year the more points you get. You get five photos to identify.

A Tale of Three Experiences: Customer Service Up Close

• December 31, 2022

Last week I experienced a range of customer service related to a new sofa we bought. It’s clear how much difference it can make.

Fix default Android emulator not showing in Visual Studio 2022

• December 15, 2022

I am working on a Maui application in my spare time and Visual Studio has this annoying habit of not showing the default Android emulator when I load the project. I could go through the hassle of creating a new emulator each time but that is painful and slow.

Reducing Build Size

• October 5, 2022

I have been developing a Maui application as a side project and on the whole it has been a fun process. It is still very buggy and there are some pain points however it seems to work. One aspect I haven’t liked is the size of the build artefacts - they are huge if you have multiple projects.

Information - Organisation - Application

• September 28, 2022

“Put everything you know out for free but in a random order”.