I don’t normally do this, but I couldn’t decide whether this post belonged on my other blog or this one. The other is for notes, and this post is pretty notey, so I put it there. But it’s mathsy too, so some people here might like it: http://insimpleterms.blog/pentagons-pentagrams-doodles-and-trigonometry

Something very exciting happened this weekend — a team of amazing talented women and I entered the 25-hour Hack Manchester 2018 hackathon, and we won Best in Show.

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Videos of live coding Nov 2020 on Twitch: Refactoring — simple live demo using my Reconciliate code base Videos of talks (not all my talks have been filmed — see here for full list of talks) The Legacy of Socrates, Nov 24th 2021, Let’s stop making each other feel stupid NE Bytes, online, Wed 20th Oct 2021…

Does this sound familiar? “By the end of this weekend I want to have completed A, B, C and D. They are all sizeable tasks. And of course I’ll need to do the shopping, spend time with my family, catch up on that Netflix series… ok, so based on previous…

Warning: This theory was dreamt up in a pub, whilst not entirely sober. It may therefore be utter bollocks… so. You know. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I was asked recently* to talk on the topic “Be bold for change”, with the added suggestion that I talk about somebody who had inspired me. I instantly thought of a woman called Dev, who I met when I was 17 years old. …

Whoops – published this by accident!

When climbing our attic staircase, I never seem to be facing in the direction I’m going — I always seem to be looking at a wall, instead of up the stairs. I’d always assumed this was because of the tangents to the circle, but having just done some detailed analysis (such are the joys of a week off work), I have discovered it’s just that I (apparently) feel the need to make my feet go lengthways along each step (apart from at the end, when everything returns to normal staircase behaviour).