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Why is my memory so weird…?
Memory is such a strange thing… I can remember strange facts from years ago… I can remember number plates and phone numbers… I know the first wifi password I ever had… but ask me where I put my keys 5 minutes ago and I don’t have a clue…
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Is this site my new obsession…?
So it’s been a week or so since I started this blog and it has already become a bit of an obsession…
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There’s preparing… then there’s over preparing…
When it comes to doing something uncomfortable like attending an important meeting, or interview… some people “wing it”, others prepare. But what happens when you over prepare…
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Never look back…
There’s nothing worse than revisiting old projects… looking back even just a few months later and thinking… what is this mess…
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I hate users...
As a locked in, hyper-focused developer I find users REALLY irritating. You discuss what they want... they nod... you wire frame something up to confirm you've understood them... they nod... you involve them at every stage of development... they nod... you push it into test to confirm they're happy... they nod...
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That's good, but how does it work...
Ever since I was little, I've been obsessed with how thing work... every time something broke, I'd take it apart. I remember when I was little disassembling my granddad's video recorder in the middle of his living room to see how it ticked...
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Practice, don’t preach…
There’s loads of version control solutions out there, good ones, like GIT and…. well… GIT. Every day I tell people, don’t store stuff on your laptop… sync it to a repo… add a good commit comment not just “stuff”. Organised life, organised mind… Do I do that? Do I balls…
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Taking on the big guys...
So... I decided to write my own social network platform. Started as a simple "I'm fed up of all the ads" thought which very quickly turned into a bit of an obsession.