Why Every Element of SOLID is Wrong
19 September 2017
No Estimates
12 September 2017
Management is Responsible for the System
And another quote from Deming, this time from Lessons from the Red Bed Experiment. Read more
05 September 2017
A Bad System...
Another quote from Deming. Read more
01 September 2017
Blinking C++
Following hard on the heels of the last post, I decided to try to implement one of the other canonical examples from the MicroPython world,... Read more
21 August 2017
Building C++ for the BBC Micro:bit
In the last 12-18 months of coding for the BBC micro:bit I tended to shy away from the block-based, Scratch-like environments and have always used... Read more
20 August 2017
Swearing and Nudity in Newcastle
On the 8th of August John Le Drew was kind enough to travel up to Newcastle to talk at the Agile North East meetup in... Read more
08 August 2017
Cultivating Emotional Safety
01 August 2017
Creating Jekyll Collections
So far with this personal site, I have stuck to the bog-standard way of putting all blog post content into markdown files in the “posts”... Read more
26 July 2017
Evaporating Clouds
My re-imagining of the Evaporating Clouds thinking process which I read originally in Clarke Ching’s book Rolling Rocks Downhill but originally from Eli Goldratt. Read more
21 June 2017
Hello, Pygame
Having exhausted everything there is to do with plain old Python, the Raspberry Pi, BBC micro:bit (ok, maybe not :), one area of Python that... Read more
12 June 2017
A Long Habit
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Tom Paine, 1737-1809 Read more
21 May 2017
Building an IIS website in PowerShell
A tiny script to create a local website in IIS just so I could test out a set of static html pages to make sure... Read more
14 May 2017
A tiny introduction to Python unit testing
As I go deeper and deeper into Python, lead by experiments with the Microbit, I thought it was about time I experimented with some tests.... Read more
12 May 2017
Hacking Verbal Communication
01 May 2017
Determining when your Azure session has expired
Logging into Azure from PowerShell usually gets down with the Add-AzureAccount cmdlet. This pops up a UI form asking for your user name (maybe the... Read more
26 April 2017
Old-Timey Twitter for the Microbit
Teaching some maker classes at campus north this week, I was showing the students how to send and receive text using the microbit’s radio API.... Read more
19 April 2017
Old-Timey Snapchat for the Microbit
As a I mentioned in my other post from today about the microbit radio API, teaching the maker class gave me some new ideas for... Read more
19 April 2017
Lightning Calculator for the Microbit
Ahead of a maker class I’m teaching in a week or so I’ve been thinking of what kinds of things are appropriate, easy to understand... Read more
11 April 2017
How Do I Unix?
Slides for a presentation I did to some Windows-only junior devs on the joys of Linux and Unix, alternatively titled: “Unix for the Terrified”. Read more
08 April 2017
How to Bullet Journal
My process adapted from the guide on youtube and the website. Read more
21 March 2017
Installing .deb Packages in Elementary OS
I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with Windows 10 marketing features to me during normal running of the system (“Hi, it looks like you... Read more
14 March 2017
Being a Good Senior Dev
I saw a tweet last year from Ricardo Gladwell around what it means to be a senior dev. This stuck with me as good, concise... Read more
08 March 2017
Growing a Garden
A favourite anti-analogy I was reminded of recently which I converted into a little illustration so that I could include it in a talk. Read more
06 March 2017
Lead Time vs Cycle Time
Struggling to come up with a suitable analogy to explain the difference between cycle time and lead time when discussing #NoEstimates (again), I hit on... Read more
04 March 2017