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
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
How to Bullet Journal
My process adapted from the guide on youtube and the website. Read more
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
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
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
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
Passing MsBuild Variables to Wix
It almost seems like it would be an easy thing to have wix (an xml file-based installer build system) see and use variables passed to... Read more
Jason Read
People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as "parasites" fail to understand economics and parasitism. Read more