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I want to marry my 2018 iPad Pro

A first-impressions review of the 2018 iPad Pro 11”

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We are not our screw-ups

Some thoughts on honesty and forthrightness, and how they helped dig me out of a hole.

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Work

A farewell letter to my company

A thankyou letter to my company, which ran from late 2015 until autumn 2018.

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Technical

Installing Rancher to create and manage a Kubernetes cluster

A rundown of the steps I took to install Rancher on a group of DigitalOcean droplets to deploy and run a containerised app.

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Journal

Walking my bit of the Cornish coastline

I returned to Cornwall with family, after nearly 20 years away.

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Burn it all down

Some thoughts on resurrecting old writings, and what it means to preserve one's mental state; even - or especially - the embarrassing parts.

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Archive

A small commitment

A post from the archive about gender-neutral technical writing.

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Journal

Hello diary

A brief roundup of things that have happened since I last wrote a journal entry.

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Technical

Breaking up a monolith

Some ideas on dividing a large codebase into smaller projects that all communicate with a central API.

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Journal

Blockstack Berlin 2018

A three day trip to Berlin for the Blockstack conference.

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Journal

The turd in the punch bowl

About my encounter with a #gamergate nut-job.

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Journal

A Whiter Shade of Cale

A brief review of my first improv showcase, in Moseley.

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Technical

From S3 to Spaces

A note on migrating from Amazon S3 to DigitalOcean's object storage system, Spaces.

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Journal

Hootenanny

On a significant change in infrastructure to Podiant, mostly executed on over New Year's Eve.

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Journal

New York, 2017

My journey to New York for a work thing.

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Journal

My first improv class

Thoughts on my first ever improv class, with a group in Moseley.

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Journal

Steven Page at the Hare & Hounds

On seeing my musical hero Steven Page at the Hare & Hounds, on less than stellar form.

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Work

The hangover

Recovering from a challenging day fixing the mess I'd made, and working on ways to make Podiant better.

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Work

I made a mess on the Internet

On realising Podiant isn't a side-project anymore, and the actions I take have consequences.

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Meditations

The Blue Window

An exercise I contoured up as a way to try and calm my mind when it's spinning out over something irrelevant and impossible to change.

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Journal

Seven days in Brighton

Day one of my holiday to Brighton.

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Work

A year in review

A post from the archive about my first year of running Bloomsbury Digital.

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Archive

Some untidy thoughts on podcasting

A post from the archive dredged up to show you how wrong I was about podcasting in 2016.

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10 min read
Technical

Hands-free punch-and-roll with Adobe Audition on a Mac

A guide on implementing a much-used voice recording technique in Adobe Audition.

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Work

I risked my health to start this business. Was it worth it?

A post from the archive about how hard it was to start my company, Bloomsbury Digital.

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