Advent calendar

A little under 6 months ago, I posted about the fact that I hadn’t posted in over a year, which now means it’s been nearly 18 months.  Life has been busy, for lots of reasons.  But I do want to get back into posting to this blog more regularly, whatever it is that I’m working…

Earth Day – 22nd April

Every year since 1970, 22nd April has been Earth Day, and after 51 years, this year is no different. As the world returns to normal, we can’t go back to business-as-usual. Together, we can prevent the coming disasters of climate change and environmental destruction. Together, we can Restore Our Earth™ There are 5 pillars to Restore Our…

Mailoji

I recently stumbled across a site called Tiny Projects, created by Ben Stokes, a fellow UK-based developer.  I can’t actually remember how it happened, or what I was looking for at the time, but I’m glad I did. It happened to resonate with me, as I’d just recently create my own tiny project, It’s a rum life!, which…

Sorry, I’m back

It’s been 51 days since my last blog post.  Based on the 3 day cadence of posts that I was working on, that’s 17 missed posts that I owe you.  Sorry about that. It wasn’t one particular thing that has stopped me from posting for so long, but a number of things. Obviously the world has gone…

Getting in the flow

As developers (and any creative) there are some days where you work hard and get nowhere, and other days where everything goes right and you can get more done in a hour than you did the rest of the week so far.  Well this magically hour (or hopefully longer!) is often called you flow state.…

Working late again?

So lots of people are working from home now, many are struggling with boundaries and forgetting that working from home doesn’t mean working all the hours. Or perhaps you’re like me, always with new ideas for projects you want to be working on, and the only time to do this is after hours, when the…