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Slack's new UI hits pretty different. Since it's rolling out slowly, being in multiple organisations is quite jarring as it impacts…

How many Substack accounts do you have? Or rather, how many email addresses do you have? This is the story of how collecting a few of both…

Recently I was lucky enough to attend LeadingEng London, here’s what I learned. LeadingEng is a new conference aimed at VP/Director/CTO…

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This was a pretty good week. I had a moment where I thought back to a question someone asked me, and I realised, that I couldn’t fault a…

Class update: Katakana are happening and they’re happening fast. I’m staying (mostly) on top of vocab, at least. Learning katakana is…

Happy new lunar year! This week in data: 🍣 Time taken to eat Ehomaki: 682.33 seconds ☁️ Average humidity: 27% Had a few delightful catch…

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