I really like a lot of the content on https://leaddev.com/ – ranging from simple advice for new tech leaders to insightful ideas for veterans, it is worth getting on their mailing list by using the signup box at the bottom of every page. But. Every article I...

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Our apple tree is in full bloom and full of industrious bees, and so when I’ve needed a brief respite from home working I have been able to walk out into the garden, and sit under the tree with blossom falling down around me – absolutely blissful! I learned more than I wanted to this week about the Windows Subsystem for Linux and how it mounts filesystems. A separate post about t...

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One of the highlights of my week is Alice Bartlett’s weeknotes. Two years of reading later and I am going to shamelessly steal her format. I do still read RSS feeds, and I use Newsfold to do so, with the feeds managed by

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I have just read Why contracting developers refuse to go permanent. It says: Working with legacy technology is something the developers I spoke to were not particularly fond of. They explained that these pieces of software are often built using outdated methodologies and poorly docum...

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Warnings and apologies: 6am introspection ahead! In Dan Hon’s latest newsletter he briefly mentions the academic theory of some of the work at ETech in the past (compared to some of the advertorial at O’Reilly Solid). I hav...

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.. are really impressive. A few weeks back I watched several of the video presentations (that page is also probably the best writeup!) from Young Rewired State, and then last Saturday I got to meet some of the people from the teams at OpenT...

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Any writing is better than no writing, so here are some things I’ve been thinking about and doing lately: I have a new camera – a simple Canon Ixus 100 to replace my old point and shoot which got dust in the lens. It has HDMI out for the 720p video it takes, face tracking, auto scene selection (such that if I point it at something close it switches into macro mode automatically), and is ...

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In a comment on peterme.com over a year ago, I said I’d like to see a personal dashboard being displayed through one of those digital wifi photo frames attached to the inside of my front door, so I can see the appointments my wife and I have got that day on my way out, plus other reminders based on previo...

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Want an easy way to pass around a long and hard-to-remember URL for a BBC programme? As of six months ago, and apparently unadvertised, the ...

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OpenTech 2008 has been announced! an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living (Saturday 5th July 2008 in Central London). The last OpenTech was in 2005 just a few days after the attempted bo...

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