ManiacalRobot / VAR

2025 is a story about travel around Southern England and Wales, from the Jurassic coast of Dorset to the south west of Devon and Cornwall, and the Pembrokeshire coast.

Tmux is a tool that I depend on daily.

Tmux is an amazing productivity tool.

Does a programming language built around the idea of developer happiness, work in a world of AI coding agents, especially if the developer is not the primary writer of the code anymore?

For 2026, I'll be attempting the 3x10k challenge, that is: 1 Year 10,000 Push Ups 10,000 Sit Ups 10,000 Squats This averages to around 28 reps of each exercise every day.

Window managers seem to be a hot topic again, but as Mac users, we always get to miss out on the latest innovations from the linux world.

Being productive with the tools we use everyday takes time, a lot of time.

After a few months in development and local testing, it's now time to formally go live with a Tmux plugin that I have been building in my spare time. tmux-devcontainers is a Tmux plugin to: Show the status of the devcontainers for the current workspace A…

I was writing some Ruby code recently, and although it didn't need to be optimised, I found myself using both x * 0.5 and x / 2 in the same method, which got me thinking, which way is quickest?

Over the course of my 20 year career in software development, I've used many different code editors and development environments to build everything from desktop apps to web apps.