Writing
Essays, notes, and DIY tech logs. 38 posts since 2014.
- Ruzzfeed: TV Series GOATs
My top TV series of all time — ranked, linked to TMDB, filterable by genre, with brief notes
- Better at selling
reflecting on my reluctance to show my work
- Not-so-dark Black Mirror
...so you can get better acquainted with one of my favourite series without worrying about nightmare triggers.
- Reclaiming my profile
Back in the day, before Facebook had a user-hostile home feed and was generally less problematic, folks would earnestly spend time to fill out their profile pag…
- Mgmt Feedback Signal
When each of your team is working on the most important tasks, then each completion brings relief and joy.
- Don’t ask don’t get
Often when I find myself stuck trying to make progress on a coding task, I wrestle with it on my own for longer than I should do. Then I “give in” and try to fi…
- Prompts for Reflection
normally just 3 bullets here, typically along the lines of do workout more, read more, write more
- On Diminishing Returns
“Nothing good happens at a party after 2am”...
- Learning to be lazy
Dabbling with the new large language models has been particularly delightful when I lean into outsourcing the kind of minor tasks that I'm perfectly capable of …
- It’s Nothing Personal...
Is there such a thing as personally wholesome social media?
- Decisions decisions
Of the various bits of written content I've authored publicly, the pieces that seem to provoke the most discussion and joy are generally those that dive into ho…
- E-paper Calendar
Build summary for e-paper digital calendar
- Shocker!
I think the mark of a useful discovery-writing exercise is when you end up in mental place that you couldn't foresee when you started out. It's the reward for t…
- Finding a Nail to Hammer
There's a Venn diagram between “what I like”, “what I'm good at”, and “what earns money” wherein the overlap between all 3 categories should be where you qualif…
- Keeping One Eye on the Prize
Once you've gathered your tools, you need to do something with them.
- Reckless Simplicity
“Start where you are, use what you have” person A: “I could have done that” person B: “yeah, but you didn't”
- Born to Synthesise
“Produce more than you consume”
- Building my first FPV drone from scratch - part 3
From part 2 of this series, you may recall the plan so far:
- Privacy Paranoia Pillars
This is basically a direct copy-pasta from my private reflection notes where I was exploring my growing unease about the state of the world and my digital footp…
- COVID-19 Helpful engineering options
Help!...how do I be helpful?
- CQRS productivity
When I'm trying to focus on the task at hand I want to deal with disruptive thoughts or actions without losing my current train of thought or working context.
- Deploying a Vue-cli 3 app with all the bells and whistles
...as painfully as possible.
- Building my first FPV drone from scratch - part 2
From part 1 of this series, you may recall the plan so far:
- Building my first FPV drone from scratch - part 1
“I would totally play that!!!” was my instant reaction to this webcomic a few years ago and the urge to at least attempt to make it a reality has been growing e…
- Why are js closures called closures?
I find it much easier to remember definitions of concepts and terms if I can somehow link it to an explanation or story behind its name. My naming stories may n…
- Why is it called dependency injection?
I find it much easier to remember definitions of concepts and terms if I can somehow link it to an explanation or story behind its name. My naming stories may n…
- Kill your mouse
This post is about why keyboard shortcuts are worth the steep learning curve effort along with some strategies for learning them faster.
- Why DBC was worth the investment
A review of my experience of DevBootcamp in San Francisco, 2014
- How I Get Shit Done
Explaining my choice of digital tools for task management.
- Post DBC - Final Reflection Notes
The Feels Trip Last yoga session with Katy Hug from Sefora Jess the psychic medium Bowling with a dj Drive down to Big Sur
- DBC Phase 3 - Days 1-3 Reflection Notes
“Data is like water”
- DBC Phase 2 - Day 9 Reflection Notes
Tiger Swallowtail Pitches Connect 4 Tech Careers Talk from Chris Marsh at AKQA creative tech agency Batman arrived!
- DBC Phase 2 - Day 7 Reflection Notes
Chipotle lunch with Stu +co JS Orange Tree with Becca
- DBC Phase 2 - Day 4 Reflection Notes
Testing ALL DAY Sweet lunch at Grove with a crew Talk from Daniel Kehoe Chatted with Patrick Managed to turn corners on Topher's Airwheel
- DBC Phase 2 - Day 2 Reflection Notes
Topher lectured on building Sinatra apps from scratch Paired with Jay Went to Grove for dinner, super yummy
- DBC Phase 2 - Day 3 Reflection Notes
Tiny yoga class Topher fixed all the things Almost(?) overwhelming amount of new data Pimped my macbook to true satisfaction
- DBC Phase 2 - Day 1 Reflection Notes
A whole bunch of fresh faced phase 1s started today Awesome fun playing Cards Against Humanity at lunch Great intro and pep talk from Steven Harms Met Josh (pha…
- Obligatory Hello World!
I hit some difficulties trying to get the jekyll command working in my terminal. Google was fruitless, hopelessness was felt, google keep was reluctantly used a…