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Latest — 14 Jul 2025

Things I've Enjoyed This Week, Issue 3

Yeah, I'm restarting this series. Why not? 🎒 I got a new backpack. The Tropicfeel Shell 30L backpack. I used to have a PeakDesign Everyday Backpack 20L in grey, but it was too small and the straps were oddly creaky. 👨‍💻 I contributed some more to Homebrew – particularly Sorbet stuff.

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Relief, or, putting a project back on the shelf

In late-February I was headhunted to move from the Monolith Platform team where I'd been for four months working on a big Sorbet upgrade and sunsetting an ancient Rails app that was no longer serving a purpose, to the Ruby Architecture team. Amazing! I had put the team

Registering for a degree

For the second time in my life I have registered for a degree. It's either a good idea or a stupid one. We'll see. This time it's with the Open University (OU). I will be studying BSc (Hons) Combined STEM, starting in October with

Things I've Enjoyed This Week (ish), Issue 2

Technically this series is now fortnightly, but there is at least a follow-up which means I haven't abandoned it entirely. I think I surprised even myself. Last week I was in Berlin and Amsterdam. It was really good to see lots of friends, eat lots of nice food,

Things I've Enjoyed This Week, Issue 1

This blog "series" needs a snappier title, but welcome! Here's a snapshot of what's going on in my life, and/or things I've enjoyed this week. Hopefully every Wednesday, but let's see if I can make it a single week,

2020-2021 Birthday Year in Review

It's too clichéd to do these year in review things at the beginning of a new calendar year, as everyone does them then. So as usual I'm going to be different and try doing them around birthdays instead. Today I turned 27. As a result, even