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A few years ago, I wrote about using a Maturity Matrix to assess software engineering teams. The idea was simple - what does a great team look like, and how honestly can you measure yourself against that picture?Since then, I've moved...
21st July 2026 Why it is far more important to have an effective politician as Lord Chancellor, rather than somebody who happens to be legally qualified. * From time to time, and from cabinet reshuffle to cabinet reshuffle, some...
A repeat of an article I first published on 30 July 2009. I’ve expanded and updated it. I signed off the air for the last time in 1994, capping a nine-year side career on the radio. People still sometimes ask me if I miss being a disk...
As much as EDC (Everyday Carry) is basically a pastiche of performative masculinity, it remains true that some things are genuinely useful to have on you. One of these things is a pen. Just as the pen is mightier than the sword, so is it...
after my first official iPhone 17 Pro Max suffered from snapped plastic, my second one appears to be suffering from the cloth covering coming away from the case itself and bubbling up. After my last warranty experience to get it swapped...
At August, any task imposed upon me was never upto the mark. Our founder always blasted me to bits. 'Divith, this is incomplete.' 'Divith, 10/10 isn't enough, 12/10 is what we need.' But most often, it always resulted in one feedback:...
This is short but very sweet. A young mouse, out on an expedition, falls down a well. Now, that might not end well (ah!), but at the bottom, in despair, he meets a new friend who might be the key to his survival. Yet, this involves...
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 I've recently been using the pattern I described to combine Renovate and Vendir to sync files in a number of repos, as a means to track OpenAPI spec dependencies. However, one thing I've...
This year's word of the year seems likely to be 'hydrate'....
git-scraping is awesome. It let's you re-use CI as a pattern to scrape data from the internet and store it publicly in your repository.
Read: Misinterpretion by Ledis Xhoga ★★★ 📚 An Albanian interpreter gets into a lot of communication difficulties. Set in New York & Albania Constantly surprising narrative as the narrator bounces from one complex situation to another.
Shinjuku Station has a well-earned reputation as one of the world's largest and most bewildering transport hubs. The Shinjuku Station Indoor interactive 3D map tackles that complexity by turning the station's official indoor mapping data...
“Math” is not what it used to be anymore I feel AI is breaking our usual, shared understandings of what words mean. For the first time ever, we have a new kind of cognitive labor that isn’t humans, and that’s breaking norms for what...
G’day, Ive been calling this ww2 project of mine bolt action ‘48 because its mostly based on warlord games minis. Plus my setting was 1948, as in the war had continued on and not ended in ‘45, buuuut as I’m using homebrew rules I’m...
import { Image } from "astro:assets"; import december from "@images/posts/lifenotes-49/december.png"; ✨ Highlights I went to see Nilüfer Yanya with my friend Rachael, she’s really good! I managed to get my ADHD care transferred from a...