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One Life

For the first time in ages we had a family night at the cinema to see the film “One Life”. It is unusual for my wife and I to agree on a film to watch, let alone the kids as well!


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Pushing The Limits

A lot of coding jobs can involve fairly “normal” tasks - create a page, write to and read from a database, add a new field to this screen. These tasks have been done numerous times by numerous developers around the world in different flavours.


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The straw that broke the camel's back

There is an idiom “the straw that broke the camel’s back” which, according to Wikipedia, describes


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Speeding up Windows PC

My dad is pretty tech-savvy (he was an electronic engineer) however he was having problems with how long it took his Windows PC to become usable.


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Piling and Organisation

I enjoy doing jigsaws once a year, over the Christmas period.


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Useless Things You Remember

During a team call this morning, one of the engineers mentioned about the useless things he still remembers and how it would be good if the brain would clear them out.


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How I learnt to run my own personal AI

By now most people have tried or at least heard of ChatGPT. It is now relatively easy to run your own AI instance on your own machine.


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How I learnt about not compromising

I have just finished re-reading the book The Spark, a fictional account of a sports agent and his journey to learn about Cirque de Soleil from the inside.


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How I learnt to pick ideas that win

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


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Capturing decisions and those involved

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.


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