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
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
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