Delivery Metrics - the good, the bad and the totally ridiculous

Hayfever

I have an appointment at Nottingham Allergy Clinic later today and I'm weirdly excited about it.

I developed seasonal allergies as a teenager and I've struggled through summers for 20+ years now. I don't suffer like some people do, an attack doesn't turn into asthma for instance, and I don't …

GraphQL for beginners me

A graphQL server needs a schema, resolvers and a datasource. The schema defines the data model but also the queries that you are allowed to do. The datasource actually gets the data from wherever it is, like a database or file or whatever. Resolvers take the data from the datasource …

Project structure - an ongoing saga

On this week's edition of 'disagreements with the ops team' - python project structure (a small symptom of a much larger philosophical discussion..).

For many years I have subscribed to the idea of mini-monoliths. Not microservices where like every tiny thing is a separate project, and not a massive lump of …

Migrating from one Mastodon server to another

For one reason or another, you may need to migrate from one Masto instance to another. I've recently done it, so I thought I'd share my hints with the world.

There are a few things to bear in mind if you are going to move to a new server: * You …

Looking forward to 2023

I always say I don't make new years resolutions but it's a total lie, I fall victim to the artificial 'new start' myth every time. I try not to do too many things because I there's a good chance I won't actually do any of them, so a smaller list …