Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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Woolacombe 2015
Day 2 The wind today blew us around a little. Our first walk of the day was a battle, with rain driving into us on gusts of Atlantic breath. Later…
Battersea Arts Centre Blaze
Today we were sad to have to watch as the wonderful cultural and community hub of Battersea Arts Centre was ravaged by a violent blaze. Initial reports at the scene…
A (Cold) Day at the Beach
These were taken on 22nd December 2014, days before Christmas. The sky was grey and unremarkable but the English channel drove wave upon wave of cold, dark water onto the…
Environmental Impact of Farming & Riverford
Every week Lucy and I look forward to a delivery of fresh, organic produce from Riverford. The company has impressed us with its quality of produce and variety of recipes,…
New Bicycle
I’ll admit it. I’m a serial abuser of perfectly good bicycles. I ride them into the ground giving them very little TLC; the bare minimum of maintenance. I’m hopeful this…
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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.