Yesterday I attended my first TEDx here in Birmingham. It was an amazing collection of topics covering everything from gravitational waves through to food start-ups in Detroit. I can wholeheartedly recommend finding your nearest one and going. What follows is a big pile of links, none of which are related to TED, but which I’ve been meaning to get out for a while. Continue reading »
Entries tagged with "tech"
The SVN Server
Nowadays I take it for granted that everything is in git. Even my Uni dissertation was stored in a git repo. But this is a story of the first time I was exposed to source control, back when SVN was the top dog, and someone had a genius idea of how to set it up on a server. Continue reading »
An Old Portfolio
My “business” site, as in the place I don’t ramble on about code and movies and the world, has been a bit neglected recently. I say recently, but the last update was at the start of this decade and since then it has received nery a touch. Continue reading »
Turning Ten
Ten years ago I decided to take a domain I had registered the year before and put it to good use. I replaced my homebrew CMS (the second version) and replaced it with the freshly released WordPress 2.0 along with a new design. Continue reading »
The Hot Path
A few years ago I had a problem. An API, consuming a dozen microservices, needed to scale and not just by an order of magnitude or two. It needed to handle a load far greater than it was originally intended for. How to do it? Continue reading »
Xmas Links
This’ll probably be the last set of links for 2015. I’m off for several weeks, with family and travel, so enjoy the festive season and be merry. Continue reading »
Berliner Links
This is getting to be a thing, missing alternate weeks. Last weekend was the latest 383 Weekender, this time taking over Berlin. We saw the sights. Drank and ate. And hopefully didn’t lose a client because of room service. Enjoy the links. Continue reading »
Mountain Links
This time last week, I was part way up the tallest mountain in South Wales, trudging through snow and wind to reach the top and immediately turn back around it was that cold. Hence this weeks instalment contains a fortnights worth of links. Continue reading »
Go Links
I’ve spent near the entire day lying in bed, tapping away on a keyboard getting a little app working. This is what happens when you can stream all the content in the world to your screen. Anyway, a big bunch of links this week, so enjoy. Continue reading »
Dead Man’s Snitch
I stopped blogging every day a while back, but I’ve kept up a steady stream of links on Saturday mornings since. Hopefully this new instalment will join that roster. I might call it Friday Dev Love, or maybe Things A Geek Just Can’t Live Without. First up, Dead Man’s Snitch. Continue reading »
