- Jan 2, 2021My dad bought me Gateway by Frederik Pohl (plus all the sequels!) for Xmas 2020, and this sent me on a journey into the (massive) list of SF Masterworks books. I am under no illusion that I will finish all 180 books in one year, but I aim to get through a few.
- May 11, 2020I seem to spend 90% of my time these days writing Python tests. Which one could argue is how it should be, but whatever.
- May 5, 2020I have never used DynamoDB before, I am a proper relational database person, but I have recently had to get into a (very simple) No-SQL db setup and there are some things that are quite different to a proper database, namely keys and indexes.
- Feb 28, 2020I started working (almost) full time remote at the start of January. It's been two full months now, thought I'm not sure the first month really counts, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on how it's going.
- Jan 27, 2020As I do more work at new work, I expect I will come across a few of these patterns that I don't know about. For some reason Software Design Patterns are a trigger for my deeply ingrained Imposter - I find myself regularly having to apologise for my lack of 'proper' computer science knowledge. So I am going to try to learn about them!
- Jan 17, 2020As an exactly average height person, I have always struggled in jobs to find a comfortable way to work. Desks are always too high, chairs are too low, monitors never adjust enough... I've always had to beg for special stuff like foot rests, adjustable chairs, monitor arms etc so that I could sit comfortably and see things.