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Jan Pieńkowski (1936 - 2022)
Jan Pieńkowski is one of those childrens illustrators or authors who provides a link between my childhood and my childrens childhood. "Haunted House" was one of my favourites, as well as of course Meg and Mog. Someone who had a huge impact on storytelling, illustration and bed…
21/02/2022 · Read article
Paddle
It’s a surprisingly warm summers day. We’ve been coming to Mull for more than a decade, but we’ve never had weather like this. It’s a flat calm on Calgary beach and the sun is beating down. The beaches of the west coast of Scotland often look like the Caribbean, but for once t…
23/12/2021 · Read article
No 10 plans to lower salary level at which graduates start repaying loans
Government believes too many students are racking up debts studying “soft” 3-year university courses in arts and social sciences, and is looking to funnel more 18 year olds towards technical training that is cheaper and will pay a faster economic dividend. It probably was “sof…
27/09/2021 · Read article
MKGeek Night, my local tech meet-up.
My local tech meet-up, nice breadth of topics and a good group of participants - hosted at the always excellent MK Gallery.
20/09/2021 · Read article
Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
My friend Chris, from over the road, had a ZX Spectrum. It was an absolute marvel and embedded somewhere in my brain the idea that computers were something you could use to create things.
16/09/2021 · Read article
How R/GA Is Bringing AI to Brand Naming
As always with agency hype around AI, the article reads better if you ignore the references to AI and just assume this is good old Machine Learning (and quite possible Linear Regression) - but if anyone can pull this off it's probably R/GA. Great to see what Rob and the team h…
16/09/2021 · Read article
The Mentorship Diamond
The idea that one person, your manager, is going to be the oracle on your career is a bit optimistic. Mentees all round!
16/09/2021 · Read article
The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
If you're an engineering lead business and you make vendor and toolset choices that don't take account of the impact on the team it's not likely to go so well.
16/09/2021 · Read article
Optimizing a homepage image from 10MB to 78KB
Great deep dive into image optimisation - and a reminder that really delivering on web performance often takes expertise and diligence that's hard to deliver at scale.
15/09/2021 · Read article
The best way to validate an email is probably to send one
Feels like every few months I end up sharing this link. Email has been around for 40 years and it's still catching us out.
15/09/2021 · Read article
Raise Her Up Podcast
15/09/2021 · Read article