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Read Slack ramblings

Slack ramblings

I used to capture all my thoughts and things I was working on in a text file at work but this approach slowly died. I use a WhatsApp chat with only me in it to capture random personal stuff at the …

Read I learnt this week - 19th June 2025

I learnt this week - 19th June 2025

The links today include lessons from an angry meeting, Internet artifacts, the developer tooling industry, the length of media and a writing tip.

Read Unusual photos of instruments

Unusual photos of instruments

I recently did a photography course in London where one of the main learnings was how you can make photographs more interesting by using unusual angles and reflections.

Read ChatGPT version reference

ChatGPT version reference

This will become out of date quickly but a useful guide for which models to use for which tasks and which to …

Read Positive feedback

Positive feedback

I was doing a 1:1 meeting recently and we talked about their code reviews of a recent joiner.

Read Introduction to Rust

Introduction to Rust

Chris Woodruff produced an excellent series of posts to introduce the C# developer to the language of Rust.

Read How to remove the noise from Google search

How to remove the noise from Google search

This is a simple way to remove all the extraneous noise from a Google search. All you need to do is append “&udm=14” to any Google search url and it will take out the new AI summary …

Read Home cooked software

Home cooked software

Software is in a massive transition phase where it is now possible for non-developers to produce software that was previously the remit of professional developers.