README.md — Four war stories about what happens when your setup documentation is wrong, incomplete, or just quietly out of date. From a $1,200 near-miss on an IDE licence to a factory yield that fell off a cliff during someone’s PTO. Ends with a practical template for what a good README actually needs. … More README.md
Winter Isn’t Everyone’s Season I know that quite a few out there are probably enjoying the winter seasonal break as much as I am. My thoughts are with you and I empathise. There are days when it’s too wet and cold to do your leisure thing. It might be hiking, gardening, pottering around in the … More It’s Wet and Grey!
Just an update on where I am and why the blog posts slowed down. … More Wrapping Up Another Year of Blogging.
Content curation! How do you cope with evolutionary documents? When do you clean up old wiki pages?
Today’s update is about my switch to curation/edit mode on my website, rather than blogging, for the next few weeks. Clean up is something we all stall on doing, but for me, the time to tidy is now. … More Content Curation!
A brief intro to the repo of examples associated with this blog. … More Glorified Plumbing – The Repo!
Last night GitBooks completely garbled my paragraphs because I’d added new lines in the middle of my paragraphs. Something that I always do, but last night it went very wrong. … More Semantic Line Breaks
A short post to announce the soft launch of a book I’ve been writing. … More Am I now a published author?
A teaser of upcoming technical posts on my blog. … More Upcoming Technical Content
What you see is what you get. A Helpful Tool There is a helpful type of text editing tool known as a WYSIWYG editor. They have been around so long that most of us don’t know that we used to do things in other ways. Microsoft Word is a great example. You type in text, … More WYSIWYG? An Apology.
I reflect on a year of challenges, successes, and adventures—from joining a startup and exploring debug toolkit ideas to writing a book and visiting the UK’s iconic landmarks. Looking ahead, I share my goals for 2025: job hunting, finishing my book, and resuming blogging about technical adventures. … More The Obligatory End of Year Post.
Glorified Plumbing 