Thoughts and musings.
I am a 32 year old software engineer from the United Kingdom. During the day I build multi platform applications. In my spare time I eat food, run marathons, and climb hills.
I have not written a race report in a while on the basis that until a few months ago I had not run a race in a while. I had been training f
Second Dose Helping out in a cafe connected to a vaccination center it suddenly hit me that I needed to get my second Covid jab, and that t
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" Blaise Pascal There is a general sentiment that peop
I've all but given up on the idea of ever understanding the variety of different approaches that large businesses take in relation to time z
I was implementing push notification into the Activity Filter Android app, and noticed that they were not working having previously encounte
I was implementing push notifications into Activity Filter on iOS this afternoon when I encountered an issue that I know I have had before.
Last year, my great Aunt Carol sadly passed away. She lived in a stunning property with beautiful views of Skiddaw. It is aptly named Skidda
When building the Activity Filter app I was very much aware that the basic functionality (of what is a very simple app) had already been bui
I previously wrote a post entitled Timezones in software. There are many intricacies to consider when working with time zones in software, a
I decided to take the time to clean up my bookmarks on the basis that my bookmark list had become unreasonably large, and I no longer really
A few months ago I was interested in purchasing a number of items from Japan. The items in question (trading cards) are small, light, and g
This is a followup to my post, Setting up a NUC for ETH Staking - Ubuntu, Nethermind, Lighthouse, Prometheus, Grafana. This is essentially
I am super intrigued by Proof of Stake and what it means for the future of Ethereum. I have missed the Genesis launch of ETH2 but I figured
I was looking at my todo list and one of the outstanding items under the heading Longer Term was "Make custom css .scss". I have absolutely
This is another one of those posts whereby I want to document my thoughts/approach to a subject (in relation to a company product) and figur
Problem The Training Plan Android app is set up such that the majority of the app is controlled from a single Activity (MainActivity) that