Personal Development Environment
I’ve been trying to settle on a text editor, IDE, and terminal for a long time now. Partly I’m limited by what I can use at work …
#Ideas
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Tree Shopping
As part of getting the garden done, we’ve been out and about looking for trees. It’s quite exciting seeing in person all the …
In Praise of Pulling Everything out of the Shed...
Yesterday I pulled everything out of our shed and we took the stuff we didn’t need down to the dump. No one likes going to the dump, …
In Praise of Playing the Long Game
I bought a Barbara Hepworth calendar in the sale at the Tate Modern shop that I thought was a steal until I realised it was a 2024 calendar, …
All Part of the Process
Writing a blog post every day is not essential. It’s not part of some new year’s resolution, despite the fact that the start of …
More Uses For Little Notebooks
I’m an avid collector of small notebooks. So much so that I have a box full of them in my office. I’m not afraid of writing in …
Nineteen Out Of Nineteen?
I’m having trouble finding something to write about today. Partly the problem of having a productive weekend of doing things rather …
A Realisation
One of the best pieces of advice I have ever been given about how to tackle programming problems is to treat your code as comments that …
Doing the thing
I find it hard to get started on projects. This may have always been the case. I definitely remember instances of complex plans for school …
If anything, make it weirder
Today I listened to ‘Cloudbusting’ by Kate Bush for the first time in a while. What a gloriously strange song it is. Best of …
Drawing a line on the page
Ingrid has joined an online drawing class. She sits there on Teams getting feedback on her drawings, while I sit there attempting to absorb …
Some Tips For Saving Time
A non-exhaustive list of ideas for saving time: