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It has taken me many years to recognise that one of the main differences between me and many others in the software development world, and part of what makes me good at software engineering management, is that I don't just look at the piece of work in front of me, but also the one behind that (and beyond that, too). I have previously heard several people in software engineering (and adja...

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The traditional Japanese Calendar has 72 seasons in a year, each made up of a handful of days. I have always found these to be a very calming way of reminding myself to look around and observe the changes in nature as the year progresses. I've written a plug-in for the TRMNL de...

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I have a Mecool KM2 Plus Android TV which I have in my garage so I can watch Netflix or whatever whilst riding my bike online. Generally speaking I really like this box. I also have some

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For my sins, I follow lots of people on Medium.

For their sins, I never check Medium to see what they're writing.

The link below is a bookmarklet which will export the list of people you are following on Medium as an OPML file so that you can import it into your feed reader.

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Summary: I extracted a load of old blog content from the feeds archived on the Wayback Machine and converted it into markdown files suitable for posting on my blog, and got AI to write all the code for me. The generated code is all here in github.

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I use a browser extension which always redirect wikipedia articles to their mobile equivalent (chrome, firefox). I find this much less cluttered and much more legible but it hides the settings scr...

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I said to someone at work today that there's been an entire generation who has only known media consumption and creation through digital means. This isn't a new observation and also it's not quite true. Colouring books, sellotape, straws. Cutting shapes out of paper. Everyone born in the UK will have done these things as a kid. But in 2025, creating and using music, photogr...

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