I Learnt
Performing a department review/reboot
Slack ramblings
I learnt this week - 19th June 2025
My Life in a Book
Unusual photos of instruments
ChatGPT version reference
MCP is not (quite) RSS
Positive feedback
Introduction to Rust
How to remove the noise from Google search
Home cooked software
I learnt this week - 6th May 2025
I learnt this week - 28th April 2025
I learnt this week - 22nd April 2025
I learnt this week - 14th April 2025
TCL and not fixing bugs
Legal shoplifting and high agency
AI projects and naming
DIY weather prediction and strategy selection
The evolution of finding data
Writer's block and Alpha School
GPS alternative and Mandelbrot set
A 2013 Apple advert and normal engineers
CTO Handbook and Time Portal
Apple & AI is like MS & mobile and AI to seed a power revolution
Acorn, a toaster and Eagle Scout award
Resolving the Xbox "too many requests error"
AI without the BS and code reviews
AI agents v records, London Eye and no sales calls
Economic disruption and the thermostat battle
Orders of magnitude and a new type of clock
The red of Mars, AI variability and strong engineers
Making something boring memorable
English for programming, blogging v AI and speaking up
Mona Lisa, people as resources and AI saves a life
Dream job video, software quality and annoying engineers
The IT jobs downturn, item purposes and no sales calls
Discovery coding, 2%ers and qubits
The Goal, a calculator app and a washing machine
Solve your own problems
Opinions, mazes and sofas
Coding, network projects and travel tips
Productivity killer, startups and aliens, and build times
AI jobs scam, book lengths, WASM and Git line endings
Data structure, SaaS v AI agents, chat UIs, developer philosophy and MCP
Blogging, AI interviewing and coding hats
Beating the demo gods
Building a surprise
Innovation tokens
Context switching and code reviews
Improved weather forecasts
Crafting the perfect intro
Making money from free content
Rebecca purple
Stay in the game
Finding better domain names
Thinking differently can be worth a lot
Small things can make a difference
Rethinking selling
Are reviews broken?
The new rollercoaster king
Hurdling hierarchy
The ultimate in debugging
An unknown pioneer of computing
Helping to solve male loneliness
What is a photo?
Using Omnivore to save pages
Experience versus energy
Winning is not everything
Relive the Apollo 11 lunar landing
Simple versus Complex
Simple task breakdown
Bringing the menu to life
The One Percent Exercise
The Cuckoo's Klein Bottle
Missing images
8 minutes
The Keeper Test
Emotions as beach balls
Ambiphone
One Life
Pushing The Limits
The straw that broke the camel's back
Speeding up Windows PC
Piling and Organisation
Useless Things You Remember
How I learnt to run my own personal AI
How I learnt about not compromising
How I learnt to pick ideas that win
Capturing decisions and those involved
Breaking things down
Decisions with a cost
Simple tips can make a difference
Turbo Pascal is 40
Assumptions can be dangerous
Document your house
Oh no second
The unknown future of software developers
The cost of AI
Foundations lead to structure
Abstract art
Favourite books
The joy and dilemma of reading
What is different?
Letting go is hard
Istrian holiday notes and tips
Always agreeing
Advice, warnings and genetic algorithms
Avoiding regrets
I rely on RSS
Life changer
Rites of passage
Valuing existing customers
Public/Private keys introduction
The Online Safety "Bull"
The right question
Pressure and stress
Ignoring the bad
Mind - not time - management
Photos on a map
Viable is important
The best and worst
Cut to gain
Do your best
School work experience
Bad estimation
Delete your meetings
Start of the Ashes
Thank a teacher
Be surprised
Art - theft, forgery and wow
An artist in the family
The restaurant of mistaken orders
How might we
Organised chaos
Value other peoples time
A hot desk in north Devon
Stop reading ...
Design for the few
Beware of the normal
What makes a good holiday?
Helping habits happen
Picking a path
Moving from 'can't' to 'learning to do'
Don't be afraid to ask the stupid question
Show seconds in the Windows 11 taskbar
Focus on the question
The legend of Trevor
The upstream butterfly effect
Downstream to upstream
Cultural fit versus contributor
Spending coins
End of an era
Negative intelligence
Blame me
Why gossiping can impact you
Sweets can make a difference
Should meetings be asynchronous?
How I use Obsidian
My most used Obsidian plugins
Should I edit my photos?
Surprisingly familiar
Letters Live
No more school
Prototyping is not always coding
Expectations and comparisons
Which bird are you?
Alarms lost in the noise
Learning without action
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Story bank
There is more to it
Giving second chances
Don't tell your friends
Going above and beyond
The difference between service and hospitality
The space elevator
Podcasts with bookmarks
How do you define a good hotel?
Lex, an AI assisted editor
Uncovering the Benefits of AI Search Engine Perplexity.ai
Don't steal the towels
Load balancing algorithms
A local version of AWS
Music to focus
Hyper-V on Windows 11 Home
VS Code for any Github repository
My Free Blog Setup
Homemade do not disturb light
The origins of Space Invaders
Finding your dads work in a museum
The seagull data centre algorithm
Fatherly wisdom
The first pictures from space
Numbers for managing teams
Annual life review
Free learning list
Picking ideas
Decide who decides
Strategies for starting something new
Twitter to Mastodon
The world in photos
A Tale of Three Experiences: Customer Service Up Close
Fix default Android emulator not showing in Visual Studio 2022
Reducing Build Size
Information - Organisation - Application
Solving a Dell laptop freezing
Generational Mindsets
Learnings from my jobs
JAS goals
Why? Not no
So what do you do?
Getting quieter to get louder
High value low engagement versus high engagement low value apps
Work in 2030
Future proofing
How to fix Sony Bravia/Sonos sound stops working
Capturing memories
Preparation meets opportunity
Installing a payphone
Last House Standing
Saving lives through design
Creativity modes
Tiny Projects
Are you considering time sensitivity?
Kenneth Goanascis
WeWork versus IWork
Is fear of failure really the fear of judgement?
Is it time to renew your novice permit?
How can a forcing function help me achieve things?
Is the level too hard?
Building a collection of habits
Commuting to my office at home
How to find a missing Sonos
Professionalism and the extra mile
Openness, discussions and success
AI breaks the game of hide and seek
The growing power of influencers
The loosely held product roadmap
New ways to generate ideas online
Questions to ask yourself before you buy
Exposing the beauty in a problem
Fractional talent as an alternative pool of resources
Committing time to stand out from the crowd
How behaviour can shape the culture
Solitude and conversations lead to great ideas
How we recharged the team with a fallow week
How to change your day with meeting plans
When your WPF menu alignment is wrong
How to easily implement successful remote team retrospectives
A first encounter with sketchnoting
Rethinking conferences in a remote only world
Increasing productivity using a simple magnetic whiteboard
A quick fix for missing Gmail notifications on Android phones
The fastest way to switch Gmail accounts on Android phones
Finally a to-do app I use ... Microsoft To Do
Yet another productivity book summaries site
Boost productivity with meeting free days
The ultimate paper airplane database
A simple addition to every meeting
Speed up in the long term by slowing down in the short term
A remote family breakfast
Watch an octopus dreaming
Goggles give back sight
Sleep is your superpower
Even more book summaries
Tackle the difficult problems first with #MonkeyFirst
Consensus 2019 - Conference Notes
Lazy programmers can be the most productive
A clear desk helps avoid being the bottleneck
Technical debt is like Tetris
Empowering problem solvers - not offering solutions
It always pays to leave well
How to run a planning workshop
The battle of real versus artificial deadlines
Places to name things
Do we really need that meeting? - the forgotten costs
The value of throwing code away
From 5 whys to why now?
How to identify real gurus and experts
Creating 3D animations from a 2D photo
Black Mirror - technology ethics and can it be used for wrong?
Antilibrary - should I finish the book I am reading?
Setting up Github SSH
Git - what to do when it goes wrong
Sometimes to learn you also need to do
The secret history of Ctrl+Alt+Del
Scala + Sbt + Docker quickly
Abandoning the baggage of Agile
Abolish performance reviews
Travel the world with the geographic game - GeoGuessr
The legacy vulnerability of the Internet
A simple change can lead to a big Impact
In a distributed system ... there is no now
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Consensus Algorithms
REST API Guidelines
The accelerated pace of image processing developments
A personal link to 'The Mother Of All Demos'
Working from home boosts productivity
Armada by Ernest Cline
The bosses who change our lives
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
The unseen impact of the little trade-offs
An entrancing dance with just the hands
The amazing evolution of the English alphabet
Making the explanation of distributed systems fun
A MacBook touchscreen for only $1
It is 'just' ...
How to track down a missing international payment
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt
Privacy should be our choice
Pi
The term 'Blockchain' is meaningless
The ultimate broken mental barrier - the four minute mile
Using AI to find code problems
Blackout by Marc Elsberg
Reducing the team size to deliver
Developer platforms must listen to developers in order to grow
Don't let status change the conversation
How do crypto-currencies work?
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Unorthodox leadership by letting others drive
Making technology less manipulative
Learning from terminally ill children
The DIY table maze marble roll
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Stunning nature photographs
Dancing without sound
Smart glasses you might actually wear
The simple idea of free water refills
Extending a wifi network with a TP-Link RE650
Ma’agalim - Jane Bordeaux
Professionals do everything necessary - not just the fun bits
The Kubernetes Book by Nigel Poulton
When The Game Was Ours by Jackie MacMullan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson
Rewarding the act of volunteering
The little things in films can make a big difference
Using crazy socks to make an impact
Surprising the customer with unexpected pricing
Knowledge workers are assets not costs
The alternative bucket list approach to life
Taking the pain out of logo design with Tailor Brands
Blockchain - what impact will it have?
Could Amazon revolutionize the shopping experience?
Technology - Am I past it?
Getting started with the Hugo static site generator