Or how Google IO made me realise I probably need to find a new job in 2 years Squeezed into the remodelled Google Berlin old medical school theatre I have a lovely glass of wine ready to go as I attempt to live blog a keynote for the first time…

I didn’t attend Detroit last year, but did attend Valencia, and while it was great to be back at a reasonably large in-person event again, the event did feel slightly subdued. I worried that the past few months of leaner times and layoffs for the tech industry might mean that…

In my last post, I looked at the decision process I went through in deciding what to migrate my long time Jekyll-powered website to. I arrived at Astro and in this post I cover my experiences in migrating to and using Astro. How I migrated my Jekyll site to Astro I recently migrated my ageing Jekyll site to Astro and hit a few bumps along the way that I have already summarised in…youtube.com You can find the resulting code in the…

Last week, I stupidly left the apartment to take a stroll with my office keys. As I shut the front door to double lock it and stared at the wrong set of keys in my hands with disbelief, I realised my mistake. …

The docs as code trend, where technical writers and developers work more closely using similar tools and processes, has grown in the past few years. For some tech writers, who come from technical backgrounds, have always worked on technical projects, or were able to pick their toolchain, it’s the only…

Using Aeon Timeline, Raindrop, MarginNote, Notes, and Scrivener — I finally finished my first fiction novel after two years of work and have already begun work on my second. I’ve also produced several short stories and have some game supplements in slow progress. So, as people seem interested in knowing these things, I thought it was about time I…

Part of Flash Fiction February 2023, prompt was “Happenings in interval between preliminary sound and striking of clock”. Tick. Tick. Tick. And time stood still. The thief slipped in through the gaps left between time and explored the scene. The dancers were not frozen but moving so slowly that almost…

Part of Flash Fiction February 2023, prompt was “Person makes appointment with old enemies”. “Confront your fears” read the large banner across the desk. Beneath it was a smaller faded one with “for a fee” printed on it. Behind the desk sat a diminutive man with tiny spectacles perched on…

Part of Flash Fiction February 2023, prompt was “Enchanted garden where moon casts shadow of object or ghost invisible to the human eye”. Yasmin was proud of the small garden she had cultivated over more years than she cared to remember. It was perfectly square, enclosed with a stone wall…