life Why I fell in love with vinyl Go back three years or so, and I was 'slagging off' vinyl lovers, as hipster, revivalist luddites. Spotify can store nearly all of the worlds vast back catalogue of music in the cloud
golang How to *never* complete anything I've been a professional programmer now for about five years. I've been coding for perhaps a little over seven years, in that time, besides tasks in my day jobs. I have completed absolutely
life Use your Amazon Echo to buy weed Disclaimer: this is all totally hypothetical, of course. This blog doesn't necessarily condone illicitly buying cannabis. I've seen people use their Amazon echo to do some incredible things. So I thought I'd lower
life What it's like to quit drinking for a year DISCLAIMER: I don't like writing 'personal' blog posts, you'll see from the rest of my blog, it's all programming tutorials. But I felt like this was worth writing about, and could potentially help
life The hardest part about writing software The hardest part about writing software, for me at least. Is not learning the right language, or finding the right tools. It's not about using the correct algorithms or design patterns. For me,
programming The programmer paradox Okay, so this is probably true of all professions or skills. But one thing that's struck me over the past few years, as a programmer. The more I know about programming, and software
acid What it's like to watch The Jeremy Kyle Show on... Acid Insert Image credit: http://correo1231.deviantart.com/ So the other weekend. I came home drunk at 5am and decided to raid the fridge/freezer for more booze. Forgetting that a friend had hidden