A moment in time
I’ve come to value this blog not only as a means of communicating ideas and information to the thousands of regular readers* but also as a sort of time capsule for looking back at what was happening in the past (and I’ve been at this since about 2003!). So this post isn’t to pile on…
2020 – The Year There Was Pretty Much Fuck All Else To Do But Watch Telly
How about that lung-eating virus that kept us all at home all year, eh? It’s normal for me at this time of year to feel some sort of urge to write an “end of year roundup” post about all the stuff I’ve done, in a sort of nod towards the posts I used to make…
Whilst taking the recycling out the other night I noticed these ice patterns on the cars. So instead of going inside, I stood out there freezing my gonads off to take photos cos I thought other people might find it interesting.It reminded me of the poncy 1930s Artexing on our loungeroom ceiling – or possibly the etched glass screens of an old Victorian gin Palace like The Argyll Arms or The Salisbury. Only freezing.
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97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
As someone who’s not a software architect, I figured this book about what software architects need to know might open my eyes to the sorts of things I might need to know about if I were to ever want to pursue becoming a software architect. The catch is, it was published in 2009 – so…