Can you do me a favor?

I cringe whenever I look back to the days I was the interviewer for roles at the companies I worked for. When I was just starting out my career at a company with hundreds of developers, I remember thinking and feeling that being the developer picked to interview someone meant that “you made it.” This is a true...

About a year and a half ago ChatGPT 3.5 was let loose, and it took the world by storm. Since then we’ve seen tremendous improvements in performance and reliability with ChatGPT 4. Not only that, but all other Generative AI tools have made major leaps. I remember way back when Dall-E 2 was released, I tried to create...

Day 10 of NaPoWriMo. My poem A couplet. Time travels Time moves so fast, it needs a speeding ticket Longing for the past, need to get to the beginning Featured poem A shape poem I found on Shadow Poetry. Birth of a Triangle mama and papa and baby make three, reaching sides of a three-sided tree. oedipal winds rustle...

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Between 2010-13 I wrote some blog posts (links at the bottom) about the privatisation and marketisation of universities in the UK (and elsewhere - for example, Chile, Canada, and the USA). This was as £9000 student contributions to their fees were being introduced in England. Some key themes were emerging then which...

Recientemente y gracias a que ahora dispongo de espacio físico para ello me ha dado por comenzar una nueva afición. Voy a usar la palabra microjardinería para mencionarla porque suena grande y compleja, pero en realidad es lo que ha hecho medio mundo toda la vida: tener macetas con flores. Ya veis qué cosa. La cosa...