A lovely spring Sunday walk up Pen-y-ghent in the Yorkshire Dales with my daughter Isla (her first hike up a proper hill). It was most … Read more
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Ian Nelson Posts
So that, then, was 2020. Good riddance. One might imagine that the enforced downtime offered by the pandemic lockdowns would have afforded me the opportunity … Read more
As the resident geek in our family, it won’t surprise you to hear that I am occasionally approached by Jocelyn and our kids to provide … Read more
One of the game-changing features of Synology‘s NAS (Network-Attached Storage) devices is their ability to run Docker, the industry-standard containerization technology. This opens up the … Read more
Near the end of 2018, I stumbled upon a thread of tweets by First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon in which she shared some of … Read more
Day One – Saturday 26th May 2018 Twenty years after bagging my first Munro – the dreary Meall a’ Chrasgaidh – and somehow developing an … Read more
I had no excuse for not attending DDDNorth this year, as it was held at Leeds University, a relatively short drive from home. Not that … Read more
“We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals” — Stonecutter’s creed Consider for a moment, if you will, the humble Boolean. Taking only … Read more
As a lowly sellsword amongst the ensemble cast that make up the incestuous York/Leeds IT scene, I am not usually one to be influenced by … Read more
My first printer was a Star LC-20 nine pin dot matrix that I received as a Christmas present when I was 15 years old. That’s … Read more