PinnedTwo and a half electric snakesI dreamed of two and a half electric snakes. The snakes wanted to eat the city, so I first thought about moving to the village. But the…Feb 21, 2023Feb 21, 2023
On simplicityWhen someone mentions “simplicity” in a technical conversation, there’s a fair chance that the technical conversation is over by now, and…Feb 6Feb 6
On SufferingIt took me about twenty years of tinkering with Python to attain what Zen Buddhists call enlightenment. I’m not saying it will necessarily…Jan 28Jan 28
Your weakness is not your techniqueI’ve been chatting with one of my mentees, and that’s when that line from The Matrix popped up in my memory. The one where Morpheus says to…Jul 26, 2024Jul 26, 2024
STILLOne day, I decided to summarise my personal engineering philosophy that I’ve built up over the decade and a half of getting paid for making…Jun 20, 2023Jun 20, 2023
Effort/ResultIf you draw a graph of how the effort you put into doing something relates to the result you get out of, it looks more or less like this.Apr 23, 2021Apr 23, 2021
Mirror Mirror ReviewI was preparing to write reviews for my team, and in the process of it I’ve got an idea that might be super-stupid, but at the first…Nov 22, 20202Nov 22, 20202
