James Jarvis

Had a long flight recently on the way back from China and with a new contract starting the week after, I got insert AI of choice, my preference was Claude at the time to pull all of the Google AIPs into an old-format .mobi file so I could brush up on them…

From the 23rd June 2025 to 23rd June 2026.

Bit late this year as I’m only posting this in April, but here are the reviews I wrote for the (12) books I read in 2025.

TL;DR: Strap in and buckle up, it’s (maybe) about to get dicey in the economy… With hindsight, you can see ups and downs in the markets, in the present you can feel stresses in your life, or periods of time when you are flying high.

I bought my first house at the age of 26 in late October 2024, almost exactly 1 year ago.

The Reality of UK Taxation in 2025 💰 It’s a strange hobby to have - budgeting - but it’s something I quite enjoy framing as an optimisation problem.

Why I wanted to join incident.io 🔥 In May 2025 I joined the AI team here at incident.io, in search of new and exciting engineering challenges.

From the 23rd June 2024 to 23rd June 2025.

This is the story of how I built (and how you can build) a cute little display that shows you a new famous quote every day.

Building on my last year getting properly back into reading, this is a continuation of my reflections.

When building an application, you need to know who your users are, and what they should have access to.

I have a bit of a confession to make.

From 23rd June 2023 to 23rd June 2024.

This is part of the mini-sabbatical series.

This is part of the mini-sabbatical series.

This is part of the mini-sabbatical series.

This is part of the mini-sabbatical series.

This is part of the mini-sabbatical series.

This is part of the mini-sabbatical series.

TL;DR You can copy the following spreadsheet and play around with the data yourself: PUBLIC: Inflation adjusted personal finance If you, like me, enjoy watching number go up graphs, then you’ve probably also got some method of tracking basic financial met…

This is part of the mini-sabbatical series.

‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read I personally think there is significant value in taking time to reflect upon your actions, and setting some intentions going forward.

I am growing up [citation needed].

From 23rd June 2022 to 23rd June 2023.

From 23rd June 2021 to 23rd June 2022.

From 23rd June 2020 to 23rd June 2021.

Did reading the previous instalment of “mapping the internet” read here leave you a bit… underwhelmed?

Check it out on GitHub!

Once upon a time I was looking at my website, and I realised that I tend to link to a lot of random sites within each post I write.

So yeah, that text message above is the only celebration of completing university that I have… My sister graduated a year before me, and photos of her throwing her cap in the air are scattered around my family’s mantlepieces.

From 23rd June 2019 to 23rd June 2020.

Another one of my lockdown projects… I’ve always like the idea of making an always-on display.

Who knew plants could move so fast?

2020 has been defined by The Lockdown (yay?).

Try it out here!

This project was a slightly morbid experiment with data plotting and predictions.

Monzo (here) is a digital “challenger” bank from the UK.

A quick monitoring project.

In October 2019, I was looking for a challenge.

From 23rd June 2018 to 23rd June 2019.

My roommate Tim (his LinkedIn) and I decided to start challenging ourselves with little applications we could develop.

This very site you are reading, is open source, under the A-GPL licence with all the source code hosted on GitHub (fork off).

On December 1st 2018, a group of friends and I attended the MLH Local Hack Day in San Francisco.

From 23rd June 2017 to 23rd June 2018.

From 23rd June 2016 to 23rd June 2017.