Short week, but I packed in tonnes, too much to write about really: We kicked off the thing I mentioned last week (although I haven't done…

Week has flown by. Made some small tweaks to this site, reviewed a few technical documents and have started exploring how to do dynamic…

Started the week with a workshop introducing our new technology strategy to the tech-leads and senior engineers working on FT.com. After…

One of the trees outside my living room window went into bloom last month. This week it was covered with snow. I don't think this is how…

A small change I quietly released to ft.com last week has received such positive reception that people I wouldn't even expect to know about…

Unceremoniously closing my laptop on Friday evening also closed my last day of work for the year. So begins the longest holiday in a while…

One of our more obscure systems had a relatively complex outage this week, and I'm left wondering why one might use stored procedures in…

Last week I was preoccupied with SGDQ so didn’t write anything — this week was genuinely exhausting in a nice way. SGDQ was tonnes of fun…

I didn’t do anything for lent this year. But the four day long weekend is worth celebrating in its own right. Why don’t we have more of…

With a few coursework deadlines this week, last week I skipped both journalling & writing weeknotes. Two weeks flew by! 😬 On Monday I took…