Posts

2022

• Preparing for the worst

2019

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

2018

• No to Voter ID

2017

• Prioritising

2016

• The Volcanoes
• Days 38 to 41: to Munich
• Days 30 to 37: Grenoble to Zurich
• Brexit
• Days 25 to 29: to Grenoble
• Days 21 to 24: Pyrenees to Languedoc
• Days 17 to 20: Over the Pyrenees!
• Days 13 to 16: Santillana del Mar to Pamplona
• Days 9 to 12: León to Santillana del Mar
• Days 5 to 7: to León
• Day 3 to Melide and rest day
• Day 2: to Santiago
• Day 1
• Two days until the off
• Don't understand some code? Delete it.
• My podcasts

2015

• Riding from Paris to London for Room To Read
• Securing AWS accounts with IAM and friends
• The 15-minute rule

2014

• Vagrant Puppet love
• My love affair with the cloud
• Little code, much immutability: Java 8 streams and immutable collections
• Variously CORS
• Working from home
• My Chrome extensions
• t2 anyone?
• support, anywhere
• Hive or: how I learned to stop worrying and love SQL again
• Turning off the monitoring
• When Unauthorized is forbidden
• Keeping secrets in Puppet
• ABCs of usable APIs
• Template vs decorator

2013

• Tuesday Terminal Tip: add some colour to your prompt
• Profiling a JVM in EC2 with VisualVM
• Mutant Mongo: A lesson in immutability
• Beauvais to Paris
• Dieppe to Beauvais
• London to Newhaven
• From London to London to Paris

2012

• Delayed again
• 6 weeks to go
• One month in
• And so it begins (again)

2009

• DPRK September 2009
• Two factor auth gets personal