I’ve been building software a long time. Long enough to have hand-migrated more legacy codebases than I care to count, back when “modernisation” meant a fortnight of find-and-replace, a wall of compiler errors, and a knot in your stomach every time you hit Build. So when I say the project I’m about to describe had … Read more
Every major technology shift has had people claiming developers are finished
ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks: How to Lose a User in Three Days I love new technology. In fact, I probably adopt it earlier than I should. Over the last forty years I’ve gone from Sinclair Spectrums and Psion organisers to Azure, AI, mobile apps and SaaS platforms. If there’s a shiny new tool promising to make … Read more
It’s easy to sit in our country and watch the media reports about what’s happening overseas, hearing the rhetoric, listening to the politicians sprout their views, or in our case listen to the silence of our leaders… But Are you kidding me? Here is some footage of a friend of mine… June 22, camera in … Read more
Visiting a local coffee shop “Nikkalatte” I noticed a book available for purchase “You Killed My Wife“. As an avid reader I thought I’d grab a copy (a rare thing for me since I normally do all my reading on my iPhone). The placard next to the book indicated it was a ‘local author’ so … Read more
how messed up are we as a race
No amount of research (or contacting Foxtel support) has allowed me to find a fix for PE2005
What’s special about 25 years?
I wanted to understand why going to funerals creates so many different emotions. A long term family friend passed away recently at 77, and at the same time, we got the really sad news that my brother-in-law had succumbed to cancer, aged 53. This one really hit home, from the time the news was delivered … Read more
