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2025

Dec 14 Breaking Up (With Meta) is Hard to Do: A story of two successes and a failure

2024

Mar 01 We need to fix voting from abroad but online voting isn't the answer

2023

Apr 11 How to waste money hosting a website: load balancer edition

2022

Sep 17 Preparing for the worst

2019

Oct 20 An open letter to Uber's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, to investigate driver homophobia

2018

May 20 No to Voter ID

2017

Apr 08 Prioritising

2016

Aug 19 The Volcanoes
Jul 02 Days 38 to 41: to Munich
Jun 28 Days 30 to 37: Grenoble to Zurich
Jun 25 Brexit
Jun 20 Days 25 to 29: to Grenoble
Jun 15 Days 21 to 24: Pyrenees to Languedoc
Jun 11 Days 17 to 20: Over the Pyrenees!
Jun 08 Days 13 to 16: Santillana del Mar to Pamplona
Jun 03 Days 9 to 12: León to Santillana del Mar
May 30 Days 5 to 7: to León
May 26 Day 3 to Melide and rest day
May 24 Day 2: to Santiago
May 23 Day 1
May 20 Two days until the off
Apr 29 A letter to my younger CTO self
Mar 22 Don't understand some code? Delete it.
Jan 26 My podcasts

2015

Sep 09 Riding from Paris to London for Room To Read
May 05 Securing AWS accounts with IAM and friends
Jan 27 The 15-minute rule

2014

Dec 02 Vagrant Puppet love
Nov 08 My love affair with the cloud
Sep 25 Little code, much immutability: Java 8 streams and immutable collections
Aug 26 Variously CORS
Aug 12 Working from home
Jul 28 My Chrome extensions
Jul 14 t2 anyone?
Jun 30 support, anywhere
Jun 04 Hive or: how I learned to stop worrying and love SQL again
May 20 Turning off the monitoring
Apr 13 When Unauthorized is forbidden
Feb 27 Keeping secrets in Puppet
Jan 28 ABCs of usable APIs
Jan 14 Template vs decorator

2013

Dec 03 Tuesday Terminal Tip: add some colour to your prompt
Nov 19 Profiling a JVM in EC2 with VisualVM
Oct 31 Mutant Mongo: A lesson in immutability
May 28 Beauvais to Paris
May 26 Dieppe to Beauvais
May 25 London to Newhaven
May 25 From London to London to Paris

2012

2009

Sep 13 DPRK September 2009
Feb 03 Two factor auth gets personal