#yapping #unemployment-diaries

On tricking my mind into doing some work.

#yapping #books

Yapping about reading and perhaps the most inane observation about summer ever written.

#music #theatre #yapping

In which I talk about Chappell Roan and Hayao Miyazaki.

#software

I was going down a rabbit hole of software development things yesterday, and came across Larry Wall’s talk about Perl being a ’the first postmodern language’. It struck me that, in a way, every programming language is a manifesto about what programming. Not what programming does (they all do the same thing, make the computer do what you tell it to), but what the experience of programming should be and how a programmer should program. Read more...

#unemployment-diaries #yapping

So.. the big news from the past month was that my whole team has been made redundant. In the grand scheme of things, it’s just one of the numerous Big Tech layoffs in the past few years, and not wholly unanticipated. Also, I’d been telling everyone I wanted to ‘move on’ from this current job anyway, so getting paid to do so is actually not a bad deal. Yet the initial effect was still destabilising and rather unpleasant. Read more...

I set up this blog a couple of weeks ago with every intention of writing on it, but in typical fashion I hyper-focused on the technical aspects of it (see? I can apply my software skills after all!) yet ended up paralysed when confronted with actually writing on it. Like staring at a blank journal, intimidated by possibilities. So let’s do the old trick of just making some mark on the pages to desecrate the hallowed ground. Read more...