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The world in photos
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.
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A Tale of Three Experiences: Customer Service Up Close
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.
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Fix default Android emulator not showing in Visual Studio 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.
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Reducing Build Size
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.
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Information - Organisation - Application
“Put everything you know out for free but in a random order”.
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Solving a Dell laptop freezing
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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Generational Mindsets
In a recent article/tweet the author commented on how all the photos taken by their child looked awful. However they realized this was down to a different generational mindset.
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Learnings from my jobs
I have had lots of jobs during my life and I think I can identify at least one thing I have learnt at each of them. I usually know it is time to move to a new role if I no longer enjoy it or I am no longer learning something new.
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Why? Not no
One of my favourite podcasts is Hanselminutes by Scott Hanselman. I have been listening to it probably longer than any other podcast. He recently interviewed Roberta Arcoverde from Stack Overflow. She talked about how the architecture of the Stack Overflow site is very different from most other large sites in that it is a self hosted monolithic application.
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