Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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Fever to the Form
“Whether music or madness, we live by one of the two”. So begins the song Fever to the Form by Nick Mulvey. Whether it has always been in our nature,…
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Dyrehaven in the first snow of the year
The snow had begun to fall a couple of days earlier, tiny specks of icy wonder tentatively introducing the coming winter to the people of Copenhagen. Our nesting down for…
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Wintery morning walk
A recent cold snap coincided with a morning away from my screen looking after my 9-month old son. He slept as I happily strolled around our neighbourhood enjoying testing the…
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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…
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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…
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Beautiful sculpted rooftop by BIG
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
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Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
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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”
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Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
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Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
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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
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Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.