Who needs a(nother) degree..??

I've always had a bit of an inferiority complex about the fact I don't have a degree related to my job. I have a degree in Astrophysics, in which I did one programming module (in Java) for which I got an astounding 8% (2nd year was not my best time …

ipad boot loop disaster averted!

My poor ipad has not been feeling well recently. I let the battery go down to zero one day - which has never caused a problem before- and when I plugged it in to charge it, nothing happened.

It got stuck in a loop trying to boot up, but not having …

A little redesign

It's been over a year since I wrote anything here. I don't know why - a lot has happened. Obviously the solution to this was to make my blog yellow.

I've spent maximum 3 hours working on this CSS, so yeh it's probably not responsive and the colours are a bit …

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 …