Supporting the Ten Thousand
May 2018: A confession: when someone emails to a large technical list a “simple” question, I’ve sometimes in the past felt a sense of “how can you not know ...
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Colourblind in a Software Driven World
May 2018: Being colourblind isn’t a terrible disability. It’s not a daily struggle, and while it does preclude certain career choices (electricians playing ...
Rational Ignorance and Technology Learning Challenges
Apr 2018: “Rational ignorance” is where the cost of arriving at a suitably informed, educated position outweighs the benefit of doing so. In other words, it...
The Privacy Storm
Mar 2018: For many of us that work in technology, the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica crisis currently unfolding (March 2018) is getting attention not just b...
Blogging for Hackers
Mar 2018: Blogging: simple enough, you have an idea of potentially at least _some originality, and write about it a bit. Easy. Wordpress and a bunch of othe...
A Software Engineering Theory of Mind
Jul 2017: In developmental psychology – i.e. how we as children develop – there’s a thing: a Theory of Mind. A stage kids go through, very early on, where th...
The Joy of Specs
Apr 2017: Specifications that is, not spectacles. You see after a heated pub debate (really) about the need for “a spec” in the face of almost universal Agi...
The PC is Dead, Long Live the PC!
Aug 2016: Personal Computer. Big, beige, boxy. So called, because it was your personal property I suppose, rather than that of the firm you worked for.