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Annual life review
  • April 9, 2023

I recently had the scenario where I had to use up a few days holiday before they would expire. I decided to hire and cottage and go walking. Unfortunately due to a stomach bug this didn’t go quite as planned however the other aim was to conduct a life review and assess what I wanted to achieve over the coming year.


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Technical debt is like Tetris
  • March 28, 2019

This article uses a really neat analogy with Tetris for illustrating the impact of technical debt. Leaving gaps is akin to leaving technical debt in the code base and makes subsequent changes more difficult or slower to ship.


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Show seconds in the Windows 11 taskbar
  • May 29, 2023

I noticed the other day that my wife’s laptop was showing seconds in the time in the taskbar but my laptop was not; a very handy feature to have.


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