Writings

AI painting of two sullen faced children; the left being an ordinary girl with a single left wing and the right being more devilish looking with a single right wing

29th Oct 2023

Familiar Devils

"Perhaps the average tech professional, and manager for that matter, is not able to deal with both the complexity of modern tooling and the shifting of trends simultaneously."

Male warrior in combat stance with a two handed sword ready to attack

27th Oct 2023

Sins of purity

"I feel an industry change might be better made by weighing the ideas on the market rather than voting in version control."

Four stones stacked on top one another with the largest at the bottom and smallest at the top

26th Oct 2023

Stack em low

"I propose that minimising the number of technologies in any given project is of core concern to the software engineer."

A telegraph pole with many telegraph wires (or electrical wires)

10th Aug 2023

Recoiled

"It’s simple, sequential, and easily testable solutions first. Untether unwieldy concurrency beasts only when you really need them."

Complex abstract graphic representing thinking and computing used as click bait

10th Jun 2023

Specialisation

I need data and leadership skills if I'm to produce elegant and humble services.

DevOps graphic showing an inifinite loop with common tech words

14th Mar 2023

Not the CI pipeline

I'm going to stop using the term 'CI pipeline' in both speech and writing.

5th Mar 2023

Knowledge > Data

Knowledge derived from data is more valuable than the data itself.

27th Feb 2023

Data != Knowledge

Knowledge derived from data is more valuable than the data itself.

Picture of a wolf standing in a field. The wolf is has been modified to so it has the body of a sheep; a wolf in sheep's clothing

25th Jan 2023

Consensus != Verification

"The sheep agreeing by vote that the wolf poses no threat does not validate the wolf's passivity."

Close up of a few fresh shoots in a corn field

29th May 2022

On the strength of beliefs

"One of the frustrating realities of humanity is that stories constructed from data are often eclipsed by those conceived through prevailing popular beliefs."

Ruins of a guard house on the wall of the city of London

15th May 2022

Questionable consensus

"I want to emphasise the role of experimentation and the importance of looking beyond industry norms and standard practices as key behaviours of effective industry leaders."

25th Apr 2022

Questionable beliefs

"If we get the relevant underlying ideas wrong then, no matter how flawless the logic, the outcomes will be misaligned with our aims."