Working for a consultancy means I must keep my certifications up to date.  Pressures of work often mean that I am not in the frame of mind to absorb what...

I've volunteered to be a guest speaker at the Architecting Manchester meetup this Thursday.  My talk is called "PebbleOps: A Mission to Remove the Small Stuff That Slows Us Down".

I've...

I'm very sorry to hear of his passing.  I shared a link to his "Two stops short of Dagenham" article earlier this week as one of my favourite IT stories.

Robot originating from the Czech word meaning forced labour, so servant master?

I am reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service...

So far, it isn't taking my job either because a lot of what I do is working out what people actually mean in their requirements spec and challenging the bits...

An awful lot of the uses of AI feel like leaning a ladder on the branch of a tall tree, then climbing it to saw the branch nearest the trunk.

My last few 3 jobs I got because (apart from knowing my craft) people I knew asked if I would be interested in joining them.  The job market is highly...

I had a night out with a group of friends who have scaled the career heights and ended up at the director level in large organisations.  They have been there,...

My company uses BitWarden as a central password manager.  This can generate random, strong passwords or pass phrases of whatever length or complexity is required.

We have personal vaults and company...

I wish that a more business-oriented name had been proposed rather than 'tech debt'.  Something that conveys the friction that tech debt introduces into what the business really cares about.

Some...

If the service is free, then the data you put in is their product.

I'm not ready to retire, but I am definitely in the market for retirement planning.  I've had conversations with my Dad and others who have retired, and they all say...

Regardless of what the laws may be in various countries, the application of the law is a retrospective event.

If it is against the law to share data outside of the...

Thinking back to pre-COVID, a lot of gaps in the direction given by managers were filled in by more experienced team members.  They were like old sergeants, anticipating orders from...

I've asked and got a raise once in my career.  In terms of knowing my job, working hard, and meeting objectives, etc, I knew that wasn't up for debate.  I...