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Best photos of 2023
Looking back on all the different phone snaps from the last 12 months and picking my favourite photos from 2023.
30/01/2024 · Read article
Ulva Bothy
As the Scots say, "West is best". So for our August holiday we put that to the test, heading slightly further west than usual. But not by much. A few days west of our usual summer spot on Mull, in a off-grid Bothy on Ulva.
10/12/2023 · Read article
The past is a foreign country.
I'm not sure why this resonated with me so much. Maybe it's the down to earth way that 'Fred' describes what is clearly a job that is beyond the capability of most people. Or the fact that this happened in my lifetime, but in a way that seems from another time - with no health…
07/09/2023 · Read article
Passing it on
Trying to pass on my love of snow sports, France and the mountains to my kids.
13/03/2023 · Read article
VP Engineering Dashboard
Productivity advice famously doesn't work. A persons tips are almost certainly only applicable to them - we are unique individuals, perhaps with only a love of searching the internet for productivity tips in common. So with that caveat I'm sharing an approach that's been worki…
18/04/2023 · Read article
From snow to snow
Another boarding trip, proving I'm getting wider not wiser!
13/03/2023 · Read article
Specialists and generalists: The challenge of building multi-stack engineering experience
When I started off in web development, back in the last century, everyone was a generalist. And generally people didn't really know what they were doing.
22/12/2022 · Read article
Charging to the Dordogne (and back)
We drove our Skoda EV to the Dordogne and back. Which had it's moments, but generally turned out pretty well.
19/09/2022 · Read article
Back on the snow
15 years ago the four of us went boarding together in Norway. There's been other trips, but we never managed to get us all back together on the snow. Until last week. More grey hair, a little heavier and slower. Four fabulous days away from pandemics, impending war and work. L…
09/03/2022 · Read article
Cycling through the Metaverse
Yesterday evening, I finished work, had dinner with my family and then cycled up Alpe d'Huez.
25/02/2022 · Read article