Sam D King

I was subtly linked to this blog post on Nitpicking in Code Reviews by a colleague recently.

A few years ago I wrote about bringing my Notion database to life with Eleventy.

A little over 2 months ago I made a rather doom-mongering post on my blog titled “AI scares me”.

2:56:54.

AI scares me.

A much belated year in review post.

I’ve always considered myself a hobbyman.

2 years ago, I shared my disappointment of season 6 of Black Mirror.

Manchester Marathon 2025.

Following the format of my Oxford Half Marathon training series of posts, this is a run-through of an intensive month in a training block for a sub-3 marathon attempt on 27th April 2025.

It feels good to start the year with another year in review post.

I think about this quote a lot.

This post is part of a 10-part series charting my training block for the Oxford Half Marathon 2024.

This post is part of a 10-part series charting my training block for the Oxford Half Marathon 2024.

This post is part of a 10-part series charting my training block for the Oxford Half Marathon 2024.

This post is part of a 10-part series charting my training block for the Oxford Half Marathon 2024.

This post is part of a 10-part series charting my training block for the Oxford Half Marathon 2024.

This post is part of a 10-part series charting my training block for the Oxford Half Marathon 2024.

This post is part of a 10-part series charting my training block for the Oxford Half Marathon 2024.

This post is part of a 10-part series charting my training block for the Oxford Half Marathon 2024.

This post is part of a 10-part series charting my training block for the Oxford Half Marathon 2024.

I’m starting off a somewhat niche series of posts over the next 10 week charting my progress and experience training for the Oxford Half Marathon on 13th October.

I set a target this year to read at least one fiction book every month.

At Arena Online, our plan this year is to begin migrating our existing legacy codebase off Rails 3 and into a modern Rails 7 app; simultaneously shedding over a decade’s worth of technical debt.

One of the many reasons I love running is its track-ability.

I like to have a handle on my spending.

It's been a belated setting of goals this year, as we near the end of February. 2024's goals are not dissimilar to last year's in all honesty, and I'm OK with that.

As I approach my fourth year of journalling, and in my third year of consistently blogging again, I had a realisation.

Another year, another year in review post!

My primary goal of 2023 was to start the 5x5 workout program: 5 exercises total, 3 workouts a week, consisting of 3 out of the 5 exercises (alternating with each workout).

At the beginning of the year, I set myself a vague target: prioritise sleep.

I keep a social diary and a record of people in my life in Notion.

What do holidays, illness and work trips have in common?

Most start-ups fail.

I’m a big fan of the Hulu/Disney show The Bear.

I’ve got the run bug.

To-dos.

I find myself inside pull requests a lot at work.

The mind is a funny thing.

I think mid-way annual goal check-ins are a great idea.

I’ve always loved Black Mirror.

One of the reasons I began journalling and tracking my “vitals” is for analysing trends in my mood and lifestyle.

Interviewing has to be one of those universal activities no one enjoys.

I recently wanted to make a change to the fitness page on my site.

In February I shared how my attempt to improve my sleep was going so far this year.

In part one, we used a script to setup to sync our transient Letterboxd RSS feed to Google Sheets for some permenance.

I like watching films, and I like keeping track of what I watch.

Two big issues plague software development teams, and funnily enough they can seem at odds to each another.

I first heard about Derek Sivers when I read his first book, Anything You Want.

I set a goal for 2023 to improve my sleep.