Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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Installing Apache on Mac OS X
Mac OS includes Apache and PHP, which is a bit handy for us developers. We all need a local environment and it helps if the local environment looks and feels…
He strode past me before breaking unexpectedly into a run
Last Saturday I enjoyed a long, gentle walk along, over, around and across the south downs. Starting at Hassocks I traced a meandering perimeter around my home town of Brighton,…
Daunt Books & TEDx Brighton
The floors creak in daunt books. Books line the walls of two storeys of stories and the musty perfume of crisp parchment, perfectly typeset pages of knowledge and narrative, fills…
History: Art or Science
At the dinner table, on the veranda in Spain, we discussed a question which I was pondering: “Is historical study an art or a science?” I’m aware that there is…
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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.