Rust Nation 2023 Review
Over the past week I attended Rust Nation 2023, a two-day conference and the UK's first-ever Rust conference, and even delivered a day-long…
2023, Feb 21 — 10 minute readChatGPT Can Do Astonishing Things. But Is It a Helpful Development Tool?
On November 30th OpenAI published a chatbot called ChatGPT that allows anyone to interact with their latest, greatest language model. You…
2022, Dec 12 — 18 minute readRetrospective - London Global Day of Code Retreat 2022
First posted on the Codurance Blog. Global Day of Code Retreat is an annual in-person event that takes place in numerous cities across the…
2022, Dec 11 — 4 minute readRust Macros - The What, Why and How
I delivered a "Thursdays Matter" talk with SkillsMatter about Rust macros; what they are, why to use them and how they work.
2022, May 26 — 1 minute readIntroduction to Rust
At codebar festival 2022 I gave a talk introducing newcomers to the Rust programming language. It covers what Rust is, why you might want to…
2022, Apr 21 — 1 minute readWant to learn a new skill? Start a study group, here's how
Hoping to broaden my programming horizons in 2020 I studied F#, but I didn't make as much progress as I'd hoped. My objective in 2021 is to…
2021, May 17 — 6 minute readBook Review- "You First; Inspire Your Team…" by Liane Davey
My reading material throughout most of December was You First by Liane Davey, a book about dysfunctional teams and how to not be part of…
2020, Jan 30 — 6 minute readTesting Your Website for Visual Regressions With BackstopJS
First posted on the Codurance blog Snapshot testing compares a "snapshot" of the output of a prior version of your software to output from…
2020, Jan 25 — 14 minute readOpen Rights Group Conference 2019 Review
In July I attended this year's Open Rights Group Conference, a one-day multi-track conference organised by the Open Rights Group (ORG). ORG…
2019, Nov 02 — 13 minute read