Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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My Life in the Army by Peter Foakes
My great uncle Peter, the husband of my grandfather’s sister Thelma, was a large figure in my life. I rarely saw him out of his armchair at home due to…
Street Snaps – July 2023
Continuing my month of street photog inspiration, I’ve become a little obsessed with Daido Moriyama and his utterly compelling body of work, with its very consistent low fidelity aesthetic and…
Street photographers inspiring me in June 2023
I’ve been inspired to begin sharing my street photography again this month, in particular due to two “walkie talkie” videos produced and hosted by Paulie B, a New York based…
Half-baked Agile
I have been involved in leading several agile transformations at this stage in my career. In every case many of those around me held firm to a core belief that…
Google and Apple block update to England’s contact-tracing app over privacy violation
An update to NHS’s COVID-19 app has been blocked by Apple and Google for violating their location data collection rules. Source: Google and Apple block update to England’s contact-tracing app…
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
The author has only anecdotal support for his assertion, but I have the same experience: “Configuration bugs are a disturbingly large portion of engineering decisions which cause outages”
Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
Having often intuitively leaned towards a “version control” mental paradigm for spreadsheets, documents, designs, photos, etc. this project is super interesting – version control for everything
Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.