2025

The case for hero paragraphs at the top of your CV

20 March 2025

Incidents are like dirty nappies

12 January 2025

2024

2023 In Books

28 November 2024

2022 In Books

28 November 2024

2021 In Books

27 November 2024

There Is No Root Cause

24 October 2024

USB-C: A Rant

16 June 2024

2023

Why Us? A Favourite Interview Question

27 December 2023

How I Read

26 December 2023

My Python GitHub Template

19 November 2023

Using Pipenv on Read the Docs

16 November 2023

2022

Netlify CMS

28 December 2022

Many of us think about risk the wrong way

4 December 2022

Create clarity, reduce chaos, roll-up and more

4 December 2022

In Praise of Twitter

6 November 2022

2021

Amateur Radio

11 April 2021

ESPHome - simple yet powerful IoT programming

21 February 2021

Job Advert Template

2 February 2021

OpenWebRX - Easy remote SDR receiving

16 January 2021

DevOps Defined

9 January 2021

My 2020

3 January 2021

2020 In Books

3 January 2021

My 2019

3 January 2021

2019 In Books

3 January 2021

2020

Neofetch and Onefetch - system and Git repo information tools

26 December 2020 in iusethis

Lightweight OKRs

13 December 2020

1:1s aren’t just a management thing

15 November 2020

A Deliciousness of Raspberry Pis

1 November 2020

GitHub Repository Configuration Checklist

25 August 2020

Aircraft tracking with a Raspberry Pi and FlightAware ADS-B receiver

16 August 2020

name.pn: Your name - your rules

12 July 2020

What's in a name?

12 July 2020

Explicit is better than Implicit

16 March 2020

Distributed vs Remote

12 March 2020

2019

Wikis Are Terrible for Documentation

2 September 2019

The Costs of Doing Your Own Thing

16 August 2019

A Tale Of Two Remote Controls

16 July 2019

Mapping Python Dependencies with Emporium

18 June 2019 in tech

The Starfish Principle - Every Little Bit Helps

12 June 2019

Installing the Raspberry Pi Desktop

12 June 2019 in tech

Django: An Unofficial Opinionated FAQ

12 March 2019

An Aged Octopress

19 February 2019

Desktop Lighting

23 January 2019 in iusethis

My 2018

13 January 2019

2018 In Books

12 January 2019

2018

Burn After Reading - Introducing My Newsletter

2 December 2018

Switch statements - a C/Go gotcha

30 November 2018 in tech

Three Tips To Get The Most Out Of AWS Elastic Beanstalk

15 October 2018

Do You Need A Blockchain?

8 October 2018 in tech

How (Not) To Screw Up Hiring

26 September 2018

Containerised home server with Docker Compose and Traefik

6 September 2018 in tech, iusethis

If By Whiskey

28 August 2018

Handling .local hostnames - multicast DNS

23 August 2018 in tech

Taking A Break

15 July 2018

Altered Carbon

15 April 2018

Image Metadata, GPS Location, Exif Tags and Privacy Leaks

25 March 2018

Burnt Pi - Exciting Spontaneous Hardware Failure

25 March 2018

Sigal - Simple Static Gallery Generator

16 March 2018 in tech

Connect Together Your Smart Home With Home Assistant

8 January 2018

Packaging Django with Docker

3 January 2018 in tech

2017 In Books

1 January 2018

My 2017

1 January 2018

2017

Welshcakes, the snacking cake you didn't realise you needed

20 November 2017

Feature Factories And How To Avoid Them

17 November 2017

The Wheel Of Time

11 November 2017

My Ergodox Experience: The Best Keyboard I've Used

4 November 2017 in iusethis

Building a Smart Home: My User Stories

4 November 2017

My Favourite Talks

2 November 2017

T-Shaped Time: little and often plus dedicated bursts

14 October 2017

Switching to Atom Summaries in Octopress

8 October 2017

Waiting and Hoping

8 October 2017

Leafing through the family tree

26 July 2017

Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation and Sceptre

9 July 2017 in aws, iusethis, talk, tech

Make decisions and own them

25 June 2017

Decisions and Accountability

3 June 2017

File An Issue Please

26 May 2017

Decisions

25 May 2017

We Are Lesion

18 April 2017

Fitbit Alta HR: My First Impressions

21 March 2017 in iusethis

Use The Magic, But Understand It Too

7 March 2017

gtypist - tpye moar gud

27 February 2017 in iusethis

Merging two git repositories

19 February 2017 in tech

GitLab - An Amazing Recovery

12 February 2017 in tech, communication

Webcam covers

11 February 2017 in iusethis

Make all your voice chats better with one simple rule

7 February 2017 in communication

Why do I smell burning?

5 February 2017

Intent Is Not Magic

28 January 2017 in communication

Words of Estimative Probability

5 January 2017 in communication

2016

1 January 2017

2016

Testing out my torches

31 December 2016

Link for context and not as content

13 December 2016 in communication

Fix Your Misperceptions Of What Tech Talent Looks Like

10 December 2016 in checkitout

What I Want From A Hiring Take-Home Test

7 December 2016

Metabase - Data exploration and visualisation made easy

28 November 2016

Travel Tips

12 November 2016

When you do X

8 November 2016

Pointing AWS CloudFront at an S3 website with CloudFormation

30 October 2016 in tech, aws

Everyday Carry

23 October 2016 in iusethis

Code Builders vs Task Orchestrators - two kinds of CI system

29 September 2016 in tech

ShellCheck on CircleCI

16 September 2016 in tech

Four Laws of Software Economics

7 September 2016 in tech

Guys. Please don't

9 August 2016 in communication

Personal vs Repository .gitignores

9 August 2016 in tech

Definition of Done

27 July 2016

Unsolicited Advice

25 July 2016 in communication

The Curse of Knowledge

21 July 2016

Always Be Closing - The Importance of Focus and Finishing

12 July 2016

When Slack is your office

1 July 2016 in communication

Universal Greeting Time (UGT)

8 June 2016

Serverless: Nice Idea, Terrible Name

7 June 2016 in tech

Silicone Oven Gauntlets

29 May 2016 in iusethis

Nobody Likes Naked Pings

16 April 2016 in communication

Postgres for Ladies

16 March 2016

Dependency Versions Matter

24 February 2016 in tech

Cover Letters: Always Send One

15 January 2016

The Book of Armaments - Tools for Better Python

2 January 2016 in tech, python, talk

2015

Python's 'Surprise' Imports

27 November 2015

Semantic Linebreaks

26 November 2015

The Government Service Design Manual

23 October 2015

Removing myself from the equation

16 October 2015

User Stories

7 October 2015

Treat your servers like cattle, not like pets

27 September 2015

Document All The Things

21 September 2015

Permalinks

20 September 2015

Spaceteam

31 August 2015

Questions Are Documentation Bugs

21 August 2015

The Most Efficient Django Test

5 August 2015

My Django Project Template

4 August 2015

Some things I'd like you to do when writing software

29 May 2015

Let Toys Be Toys

23 May 2015

Environment variables in nginx config

2 May 2015

Och spelar lite DotA

26 April 2015

Pipeline 2015

6 April 2015

Go Read All The Stross

14 March 2015

2014

Twelve-Factor Config: Misunderstandings and Advice

6 October 2014

Blocked by TalkTalk

2 July 2014

How Perks Can Divide Us

30 June 2014

Aeropress

1 May 2014

It hurts with every heartbleed

9 April 2014

Bringing Twelve-Factor to Django

2 April 2014

NHS Hack Day Cambridge 2013

20 February 2014

2013

Shipping Stuff

6 March 2013

Upgrading Puppet in Vagrant Boxes

19 January 2013

2012

Sometimes it's the little things

30 September 2012

StackCompare v1.0

12 August 2012

Using Amazon S3 to host your Django Static Files

14 July 2012

Django and Static Files

25 June 2012

NHS Hack Day London Presentation

14 June 2012

Time-series graphs with TempoDB and Flot

7 June 2012

NHS Hack Day London 2012

5 June 2012

Raw AWS vs Heroku

26 March 2012

Django Settings Environments

10 March 2012

Goodbye Easyspace...

9 March 2012

Where HAM I?

2 January 2012

2011

Yahoo! Signup

23 December 2011

Augeas

11 November 2011

Four Books I Think Everyone Should Read

12 September 2011

First play with Neo4j

25 August 2011

Lying DNS

22 August 2011

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and ElasticFox / HybridFox

15 June 2011

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud

14 June 2011

Trying out Puppet

2 April 2011

2010

MBeans and naming collisions

1 October 2010

Evelyn

13 September 2010

Java Melody

3 September 2010

JIRA

11 August 2010

Objective-C and the Delegate pattern

17 April 2010

2009

Types and printf

7 September 2009

Code Tools

5 September 2009

Streamlining Life

1 September 2009