Programming
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Time Blocking
→: Time BlockingThe thing about knowing more about what you’re doing, is that more people want to talk to you about it, and you have less and less time to actually… do it. And so people block their calendars with “Do not Schedule” and “Make Time!” and presumably try to be diligent about actually enforcing this. But…
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I Used To Make Apps
→: I Used To Make AppsIn my copious amounts of spare time, I’m been playing with iOS lately (some actual coding posts coming soon, I hope). It’s fun, how quickly I can pull together a framework for an app. The satisfaction of something appearing, that didn’t used to be there. It’s that feeling of making. I miss it. I miss the…
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ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise Scale
→: ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise ScaleTalk from Capital One on moving their 2,500 page site to be mobile optimised. My Takeaway They drove mobile traffic up from 4%, to 40% in a year. My main shock here was that anyone was seeing mobile traffic as low as 4% in mid-2013. Given general internet trends, mobile traffic much below 40% is…
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The Care and Feeding of Interns
→: The Care and Feeding of InternsInternships are often billed as a “3 month job interview”, but from the other side they are a 3 month stint in being a people manager, and the first opportunity people have to have a real impact on someone else’s career. This can be in a good way – the internship that makes the intern feel…
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→: (…)I’ve been in a bit of an emotional funk for the last week or so, and I really wanted to snap out of it this weekend. I made myself go to the gym, and that didn’t work (actually I felt worse). I wrote something, but concluded it was rubbish. I went on an adventure with…
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Python Programming With Little Stemettes
→: Python Programming With Little StemettesSlightly last minute, I found myself putting together a workshop in python for a Stemettes event. The constraints: It has to be in python. I don’t really code in python much (light scripting, which I don’t do much of). It has to relate to banking. There are lots of people coming to help. These people do not…
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Teaching Chaos
→: Teaching ChaosMy friend Linda teaches drawing at University (amongst a wide assortment of things), and she was explaining a fascinating exercise to me. Requirements: white paper, charcoal, eraser, glue stick & tolerance for dirt. This is all about developing lots of strategies for recovering from errors and changes, and stumbling upon expressive, aggressive marks and effects…
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The Procrastination Project
→: The Procrastination ProjectThere is something I’m working on that I’m really excited about, that if we have hung out in person I may well have talked about, but it has been going nowhere. So “I’m working on X” has really only been true if “work” is defined as “not getting around to and feeling really guilty about”.…
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The French Ski Problem
→: The French Ski ProblemIn 1988, there was a revolution in the ski industry. Previously, skis had been straight-edged and the skier controlled them through force and incline. The new shaped skis were parabolic, with a side-cut edge that caused the ski to turn when introduced to the snow. Pressure causes the ski to bend: more pressure, more bend,…