Paul Mucur

Shoulders back and down.

Since returning to London after our stay in a Glasgow tenement last week, I’ve yearned for the high ceilings and sheer space we enjoyed there.

I redesigned this site in response to feedback from a former colleague that the old inline lists made it look like the styling had failed to load (never what you want to hear).

Happy New Year!

This past week of relative inactivity is probably best summed up by Sam Delaney’s “‘No tricks.

My constant low-level consumption of gingerbread and “Homes Under the Hammer” over the past seven days has made it feel like the most sedentary week in recent memory (and this is coming from someone who was living off freezer food with a newborn not too l…

We’re in Yorkshire spending time with our family in the run up to Christmas so please forgive the lateness of this week’s notes.

Following last week’s beginnings of a cold for the newest member of our family, both E and I also succumbed, all three of us sniffling and coughing though none more pitifully than C.

For a few years now, cookery shows on TV have been a guilty pleasure of mine: when your day has been a little too trying for the latest nail-biting thriller or existential drama, I find there’s no better way to unwind than to watch Jamie “glug” olive oil…

I read Blake Hyde’s “The Danger of ‘Simplicity’” this week and wished I had written it.

While we initially recoiled at the adverts for the Junior Bake Off, after reading that it is “the Bake Off we deserve” after this year’s disappointing series, we gave it a go and are now fully converted.

I recently imported hundreds of home videos from the past 20 years into Photos for macOS only to discover that none of the videos had the correct date and time.

Ever since Mac OS X Leopard, connecting an external storage device to your Mac will ask you if you want to use that storage to automatically back up all of your files with a feature called Time Machine.

While I was conflicted about publishing my first weeknotes last week (were they too self-indulgent?

Following a trail already blazed by Nat Buckley, Alice Bartlett and Chris Zetter and at the very real risk of over-sharing, here are my first weeknotes: I thoroughly enjoyed playing Lucas Pope’s multi-award-winning “Return of the Obra Dinn” which is now a…

Last year, inspired by Nat Buckley’s “2017 Yearnotes” and Julia Evans’ “2017: Year in review”, I wrote my own “2017 Yearnotes”.

I recently wrote a small program in Rust that I wanted to compile for an old Raspberry Pi Model B but running cargo build --release on the Pi itself took several hours to complete.

Last Friday, I attended Scale Summit 2016, my fourth time at the conference formerly known as Scale Camp.

At the March 2015 meeting of the London Ruby User Group, I delivered a presentation based on this blog post with some supplemental material.

Yesterday, I attended Scale Summit: “a performance and scalability unconference” using the Open Space Technology format.

It was with great interest that I watched J.

I have been using Vim as my primary text editor for several years but it was only recently that I decided to try and write my own Vim plugin.

For the past year, I have been working on a web application that relies heavily on inline frames (aka iframes).

At the August 2011 meeting of the London Ruby User Group, I delivered a presentation titled “Managing Web Application Servers with Puppet”.

In setting up this Jekyll-powered blog, I had cause to dust off my Google Analytics account and finally take Disqus for a spin.

Update: The ability to call Proc.new without a block was removed in Ruby 3.0.0 so the technique described below will only work on versions of Ruby prior to that.