Recent posts
Nov 2022
Team size matters
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Nov 23
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How big does your team really need to be to achieve your goals? Probably not as big as you think.
Aug 2022
Battery Powered
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Aug 22
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It’s easy to forget how far batteries have come over the last years — but the Oura Ring is a great reminder of what’s possible now.
Apr 2022
Using AWS S3 as a simple cache service
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Apr 16
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Using S3 as a simple caching mechanism for any stateless functions that need to save some ephemeral data to keep state.
Jan 2022
The Startup Triumvirate
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Jan 23
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Three founders is the exact right number of founders.
Dec 2021
December
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Dec 27
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December is a weird month. This particular one has been even weirder than normal, busier than normal.
Oct 2021
About being disruptive
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Oct 29
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I was saying to a friend this week that I felt like my approach to a certain interaction with one of our teams was a bit ‘disruptive’…
Playing with Serverless Cloud
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Oct 7
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A couple of weeks ago the folks behind the Serverless framework released the first version of Serverless Cloud, a managed serverless…
Aug 2021
High-rise
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Aug 11
in category Dialogue.
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“I fear the moment I’m truly happy with myself, I won’t be myself anymore,” he said quietly.
Tone of Voice
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Aug 9
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Slackin' Amazing
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Aug 5
in category Productivity.
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Here are some of my favourite hidden features of Slack.
Jul 2021
Using tags in Things
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Jul 20
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How you can effectively tag tasks in Things to make it easier to manage your to-dos.
Preparing your Gatsby site for production
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Jul 2
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Some things to look out for when you’re ready to push your Gatsby site to production.
Apr 2021
Local development with Serverless
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Apr 25
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Some tips and tricks to help you get started developing and debugging serverless applications locally.
Enginears podcast
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Apr 15
in category Podcasts.
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I got the opportunity to talk with Elliot Kipling about NearSt, the journey from prototype to product market fit, and how we decided to…
Creating Focus Time
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Apr 11
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How I got back some time for deep work.
Interceptors in Axios
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Apr 5
in category Engineering.
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Interceptors in Axios are a great tool to simplify your management of network requests.
Mar 2021
The Pivot
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Mar 21
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How do you know when it’s time to course correct?
Oct 2020
The Craft
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Oct 3
in category Writing.
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There’s something unique about creating something from scratch, with nothing but your own vision of what it should be like, with no…
Jul 2020
Serverless magic links with AWS Cognito
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Jul 27
in category Serverless.
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I’ve written before about what I consider to be best practices for magic links from a UX perspective.
Practical regular expressions
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Jul 26
in category Dev basics.
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Regular expressions (regex) are one of those topics that a lot of developers find difficult to get started with.
Digital gardens
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Jul 24
in category Writing.
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Something that I recently came across is the concept of a digital garden.
Undivided attention
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Jul 19
in category Road to me.
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My granddad passed away earlier this week at age 95.
Jun 2020
Fighting for a cause
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Jun 3
in category Road to me.
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I was thinking the other day about the fact that I haven’t really fought for a cause since I was in primary school.
May 2020
Good software
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May 22
in category User experience.
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A lot has been written on this subject, and if you want the definitive guide on product design and software development (if there is such a…
Go to / on it
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May 21
in category Screenplaying.
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I’ve been watching some old episodes of NCIS in the background while doing some mundane admin tasks for work (only outside office hours of…
Mar 2020
Transactional emails at scale
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Mar 15
in category Open source.
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At every tech startup I’ve created, we’ve had a need for transactional emails.
Places to go in London
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Mar 1
in category Life in London.
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Most places listed are centered around East, since that’s where I spend most of my time.
Feb 2020
Just done
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Feb 22
in category Screenplaying.
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INT.
Standing strong
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Feb 16
in category Poem.
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Tonight I’m standing strong Like that willow tree across the street All alone on my balcony The wind moving past me Gusts of cold air…
The anti-bullying day
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Feb 9
in category Road to me.
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Almost exactly 13 years ago today was my day.
The 'why'
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Feb 7
in category Road to me.
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I’ve been kind of running all of the past few years, even sprinting maybe.
Nov 2019
Renting in London
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Nov 4
in category Life in London.
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When I first lived in London about four years ago, I lived with housemates.
Nov 2018
Better all the time
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Nov 27
in category Road to me.
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I’ve been extremely lucky in life so far.
Mar 2018
Twenty-one
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Mar 11
in category Road to me.
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This is it.
May 2014
Twenty thieves
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May 9
in category Prose.
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There once were twenty thieves, sitting in the shade of a giant blade of grass.