I’m starting a new job soon at a company that uses Kotlin, a language I’d never used before so I decided while I had some downtime between jobs to learn the basics so I wouldn’t start and be completely out of my comfort zone. I had used Scala previously and…

Over the last couple of months I’ve been getting into statecharts. It started while playing around with porting Reciprocal.dev (RIP) to work on top of tldraw as that uses them and since then, I’ve experimented with Stately’s excellent Xstate-based editor and then I found Sketch.systems. Sketch.systems takes statechart visualisation a…

After my trip to Denmark, Sweden and Norway in November 2022 I still had some credit with British Airways left to use by September 2023. Due to exchange rates I actually ended up with a fair amount to spend, so the girlfriend and I decided to go back to Iceland. …

Looking back on my plans for 2022 I achieved four out of eight of the things I set out to do: Move to self-hosted tech stack: I found a NAS that I liked and have for the most part managed to migrate off iCloud and a bunch of SaaS products…

This year was a little more exciting than 2021! I’ve been promoted, taken a sabbatical and moved to a different company. I gave up my entreprenerial dream Looking back at my 2021 wrap-up I was excited at how I’d develop Reciprocal.dev further after a successful MVP but unfortunately in January my day job project had a…

I’m currently on a sabbatical from work and decided to invest some of my time off reliving my teenage dream of creating enough music to publish an EP of some form. In order to give myself a bit of a vision to aim for, I decided to create a logo…

I was on holiday when the new Pokemon games came out and didn’t have my Switch on me so had to wait to play them and avoid spoilers for two weeks. I somehow managed to arrive home without knowing anything about the game which I think may have been down…

Today wraps my last day in Oslo, Norway — The last leg of my scandinavian holiday that I’m taking while on sabbatical. Oslo has been great, with loads of museums, great shops and galleries. First Impressions After leaving Stockholm which was covered in snow the morning of our flight a click glance…

Today wraps my last day in Stockholm, Sweden — The middle leg of my scandinavian holiday that I’m taking while on sabbatical. Stockholm has been great, with loads of museums, picturesque walks and today we had some snow! First impressions I can’t help but compare Stockholm to Croydon in the UK. When…