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Read Strategies for starting something new

Strategies for starting something new

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 …

Read Twitter to Mastodon

Twitter to Mastodon

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 …

Read The world in photos

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 …

Read Fix default Android emulator not showing in Visual Studio 2022

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 …

Read Reducing Build Size

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 …

Read Solving a Dell laptop freezing

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 …

Read Generational Mindsets

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.

Read Learnings from my jobs

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 …