Tue Oct 15
After my trips to New York and Portland, I flew back to San Francisco. I first attended the SemTech conference for the second year running. However, the most interesting event I went to that week was at Singularity University (SU), located at the NASA Ames Research Park near Mountain View. I was taken to SU by a...
Setting expectations for software engineers is tricky for all managers. Every company has different needs and a different structure, tech stack, and culture. Whenever someone joins a team, one of the manager’s challenges is aligning the organization’s expectations with those of the new joiner. As there’s no...
In a previous article I wrote about adding maps to my blog, which is a static site. I use these maps to write about walks I’ve done. These maps can be dragged, rotated and zoomed, but there is no backend tileserver supporting it, it all comes from a single static file. This is thanks to the PMTiles format and...
I upgraded the image plugin for 11ty on a small site which had an unintended chain of issues! I noticed that the Source control had node elements in it, even though I have node_modules in my gitignore file. After some investigation and testing I realised that I must have deployed the site before adding the...
I had the privilege to visit the Cathedral de Santa Maria del Fiore on our recent trip to Italy. It has become perhaps my favorite building I have ever stepped foot in, and in seeing the symbolism, the story that is being told, it takes the breath away. As the taxi pulled around the corner and I caught my first...