- Weeknotes 64
- Playing old adventure games, extracting subdirectories from git repositories, programming robots, a photo book follow-up and more than five minutes ahead.
- Weeknotes 63
- Arctic scenes, pointless defiance, networking problems and photo books.
- Weeknotes 62
- A snowman, this time last year, reconsidering exercise, dental instruments, optionally rotating eyes and colour schemes.
- Weeknotes 61
- The annual cleansing ritual, first words, festive soldering, learning Go and a lot of Christmas specials.
- Weeknotes 59 and 60
- Decamping to the north, two significant DIY projects and things learnt while continuing the migration to Active Storage.
- Weeknotes 58
- Dealing with bad news, very specific tools for the job and migrating from Paperclip to Active Storage.
- Weeknotes 56 and 57
- Cooking as a balm in troubled times, boil in the bag routine change, mistaken Twitter identity, meditating with DUPLO, sending cookies with the Fetch API, increasing errors by nearly 500,000%, trying to collect truly anonymous usage data and not thinking about a child's jaws.
- Weeknotes 55
- Integrating Shopify BuyButton.js with Turbolinks, the M1 SoC, testing signed Stripe webhooks and cavorting.
- Weeknotes 54
- Handling numeric user input with React, cleaning up unused Homebrew dependencies, Command Line Tools woe, losing control of your eyes and comparing our son to icons in IKEA instruction manuals.
- Weeknotes 53
- An unwelcome return, low spirits and removing a special case.
- Weeknotes 52
- A year of weeknotes, inconsequential quests, kernel extensions, using Terraform to manage multiple AWS accounts at once, testing feature flags and the secret fantasy of a future self.
- Weeknotes 51
- Pizza crusts, London Computation Club wiki, what to do with an inherited codebase and collective disbelief.
- Weeknotes 50
- Baby-proofing, Richard Osman’s role in my life, carrying pliers, zeitgeist marketing, ergonomic experiments and escaping from Hades.
- Weeknotes 49
- Paracetamol suspensions, 90s music and final shaping.
- Weeknotes 48
- Mentor envy, calculating the surface area of pizza, separation, adding HTTP headers and how to use your entire body to express dissatisfaction.
- Weeknotes 47
- Settling in, potentially diseased garlic and being at a loss for notes.
- Weeknotes 46
- T'north, Netflix tips and tricks and coffee brewing theory.
- Weeknotes 45
- A birth story.
- Weeknotes 44
- A young child's unsteady walk, deep cleaning and a holiday.
- Weeknotes 43
- New experiences, starting over and Daddy Pig holding a mirror up to society.
- Weeknotes 42
- A void that cannot be filled with ergonomic equipment, tech brain and decapitating cardboard dogs.
- Weeknotes 41
- Almost all the colours of the rainbow, what we wear on our feet, reminiscing with Radiohead, René Redzepi and technical tests.
- Weeknotes 40
- Not owning a microwave, uncanny turns of phrase, Parts Unknown and the therapeutic power of Taylor Swift.
- Weeknotes 39
- Nurseries, unwinding with wooden blocks, things people say to you when you wear a baby carrier and a computation anniversary.
- Weeknotes 38
- Gold trees, some small sense of freedom, quartz glass platters and the villain in your history.
- Weeknotes 37
- How I discovered adventure games, saving your life, converting cups of sifted flour into moon masses and feeling out of sorts.
- Weeknotes 36
- Visiting other islands, comfort food TV, a market trader mystery, not understanding prescriptions and unexpected sobbing.
- Weeknotes 35
- Pixels per inch, kicking up the 4d3d3d3, the importance of ventilation and genuine Computer Science.
- Weeknotes 34
- Shia LaBeouf, bad bakes, vertical rhythm, finding a stranger in the Alps and the streetlight effect.
- Weeknotes 33
- Generating human-friendly codes, keeping my cool running a Raspberry Pi and threatening my marriage.
- Weeknotes 32
- Replacing a Pi-hole with Unbound and ISC DHCP, speeding up deployments and a reckless root vegetable investment.
- Weeknotes 31
- Unexpected socialising; your mission, should you choose to accept it; computer means and a lifelong commitment.
- Weeknotes 30
- A birthday, the island of Custard, more public keys and a new earworm.
- Weeknotes 29
- An infernal whining, an update on EOL Ruby versions, the pit of success, a GPG rabbithole and teaching babies about quantum mechanics.
- Weeknotes 28
- A new thought technology, supporting old Ruby versions, making the most of the long weekend and filling the hole left in my life by Keith Brymer Jones.
- Weeknotes 27
- Getting emotional about cups and saucers, a home haircut, the only two good types of advert, new kitchen scales and a debugging adventure.
- Weeknotes 26
- The importance of editing, unminifying JavaScript, inappropriate Zoom virtual backgrounds and a thirst for life.
- Weeknotes 25
- Bank holiday noodling, coffee paraphernalia, a use for Shortcuts and life advice from a Learn with Me Zebra walker.
- Weeknotes 24
- Repairs, a new Raspberry Pi, an unforgettable ant update, overcomplicated cooking and an unusual birthday.
- Weeknotes 23
- Reassuring TV shows, negotiating pavements, baby sign language, a home baking first and is Bear Grylls’ TV career over?
- Weeknotes 22
- Driveway picnics, “The Baby Club”, a new enemy at home and the etymology of DIY.
- Weeknotes 21
- COVID-19, asynchronous working, surprise Smash Mouth fandom, flower arranging and being judged by book titles.
- Weeknotes 20
- Working from home, low sodium bread, workplace superpowers and yet another secure shoelace knot.
- Weeknotes 19
- The Missing Hit, hot lemon and honey, Ugly Delicious and a reassuringly dumb baby monitor.
- Weeknotes 18
- The Tube, dad chat, “Shape Up”, improving sleep with first-order logic and what it means when the clown is down.
- Weeknotes 17
- A car park disaster, animated GIFs, not rewriting legacy systems and how the internet really works.
- Weeknotes 16
- Typing practice, an erosion of attention, puzzle solving and wishing we’d done everything differently.
- Weeknotes 15
- Looking for work, laughter, stinging nostrils and writing weeknotes for the future self.
- Weeknotes 14
- The anaesthetic properties of cloves, saline rinses, split keyboards and yelling at clouds.
- Weeknotes 13
- Posture, mouth guards, Guy Fieri’s “Trash Can Nachos” and hearing things in the noise.
- Weeknotes 12
- Yearning for space, failing to make a video, ruining Christmas presents, smart meters and musculoskeletal woes.
- Weeknotes 11
- Redesigning the site, swimming lessons, first cousins once removed and screwdrivering.
- Weeknotes 10
- Revisiting 2018’s yearnotes, sharing podcasts in the park, the rhythm of baby talk and why you wouldn’t be able to cut much with Apple’s scissors emoji.
- Weeknotes 9
- Learning to do nothing, a deep, mirk widd and exactly which grandparent you can shove off a bus.
- Weeknotes 8
- Being extraordinarily lazy, cobbling together a homemade banneton and this year’s obligatory bit of family busywork.
- Weeknotes 7
- Great-grand relatives, the joy of tying knots and Turkish soap operas.
- Weeknotes 6
- Christmas films, participating in democracy and things a true Englishman will never countenance.
- Weeknotes 5
- The unexpected joy of baby cinema, doing everything wrong and our daily multiplayer crossword routine.
- Weeknotes 4
- Struggling with structured data, Christmas puddings, the joy of repairing things and everything being a trade-off.
- Weeknotes 3
- Writing, solving logic puzzles and the Bake Off we deserve.
- Scripting Photos for macOS with JavaScript
- Automatically editing photo metadata for iCloud Photos using JavaScript for Automation.
- Using a Raspberry Pi for Time Machine
- How to share a disk with Samba and Avahi on a Raspberry Pi for use with macOS backups.
- Weeknotes 2
- Fixing dates on old videos in Photos, using a Raspberry Pi for Time Machine and the right tool for the job.
- Weeknotes 1
- Dadding, baking, TV and being a paranormal insurance investigator.
- 2018 Yearnotes
- Reflecting on the past year, both personally and professionally.
- Cross-Compiling Rust for a Raspberry Pi on Travis CI
- How to compile binaries from a Rust project that will run on a Raspberry Pi using Travis CI.
- What Is a “Successful” Software Development Team?
- Thoughts on the difficulty of gauging and improving the success of development teams following Scale Summit 2016.
- Data Structures as Functions (or, Implementing
Set#to_proc and Hash#to_proc in Ruby)
- Experimenting with using hashes and sets as functions in Ruby.
- A Summit for Scaling
- A summary of my time at 2014’s Scale Summit: a performance and scalability unconference.
- Implementing if in Ruby
- Using multiple blocks in Ruby to implement Smalltalk-style control flow.
- Testing Vim Plugins on Travis CI with RSpec and Vimrunner
- How to continuously integrate and test-drive Vim plugin development with the Vimrunner gem.
- Naming Dynamically Created iframes
- Working around issues with setting iframe names in Internet Explorer.
- Managing Web Application Servers with Puppet
- A transcript of my August 2011 LRUG presentation regarding configuration management and Puppet.
- Combining and Compressing Disqus’ and Google Analytics’ JavaScript
- A step-by-step refactoring of Disqus’ and Google Analytics’ JavaScript.
- Passing Blocks in Ruby Without
&block
- Using yield and Proc.new to avoid unnecessary Proc object creation in Ruby.