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I’m a big fan of taking the train when travelling and for a recent trip to Portugal we went by rail from the UK.

Recently I attended the think climate event in London, part of the 24 Hours of Reality campaign from Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

A year ago I committed to writing a least one post a week for the next year and this post marks the achievement of that goal.

Like many people, we had a phone line at home but no phone attached to it.

I’ve been using my K Ring for contactless payments for well over a year now.

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No post this week.

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Graphs are awesome and a great way of showing trends.

Being an early adopter sucks.

Continuous Delivery is not just about Continuous Integration (CI) but also about Continuous Deployment.

The Climate Fixathon has now finished and judging stops at the end of today.

You may have noticed a banner at the bottom of this site.

When looking at website analytics, you may notice you can often see where a visitor has come from.

Following on from my graph of the summer heat wave that afflicted large parts of Europe, I thought I’d expand on the increasingly extreme swings in our famously changeable British weather and the implications for our energy infrastructure.

It seems like a distant memory now but we had a brief heatwave in the UK last month.

You may have previously used SmtpClient to send email in .NET.

For this post in my series on performing CI with Azure DevOps I’ll be covering build pipelines using YAML code and why this is better than the old manual method.

The Climate Fixathon started today and I’m one of the judges, as I’m involved with Impact Makers and volunteered.

The Climate Fixathon starts this Friday (it runs between the 2nd and 30th of August) and I’m excited to be one of the judges.

This was going to be a post about how to perform CI builds on Azure DevOps but there can be so many issues just hosting your code that I thought I should expand upon that first.

Piwigo is an open source web photo gallery.

This post follows on from my previous one on getting started with Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOps is the latest re-branding of what used to be called VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) and before that Visual Studio Online.

If you want to make change happen then you need to put the effort in.

I picked up a Xiaomi Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) temperature and humidity sensor (model code LYWSDCGQ) for just under £11 with the aim of regulating the working environment in my office more efficiently.

Rise up!

Taking the train is a great way to travel.

“It is time to act decisively.

WhatsApp has been in the news recently for having a serious Remote Code Execution vulnerability exposed.

If you are in the EU then tomorrow is your chance to vote.

Last week giffgaff raised their prices.

There is a new preview version of .NET Core 3.0 out (preview 5) and I’ve been giving it a kick like I did the last one.

It’s May Day but for the planet it’s more of a Mayday (from m’aider, French for ‘help me’).

Sir David Attenborough’s latest documentary, Climate Change: The Facts was, as expected, both excellent and terrifying.

I’ve previous written at length on the climate crisis and what we can do about it.

We’re finally back from our big trip and I’ve now published a mammoth beer blog post that I was working on throughout.

Visual Studio 2019 has been released for Windows and macOS.

I previously wrote about my generally positive experiences with Starling Bank.

For my wedding ring I bought what was at the time called a Kerv Ring (now known as a K Ring due to a trademark conflict).

Ecosia is a non-profit search engine that uses its revenue to plant trees.

After I moved this blog from Ghost to Hugo I wanted to find a way to schedule posts in the future.

If you want to air your washing in public then my attitude is live and let dry 1.

I’ve started using ProtonMail for email, as a paying customer.

Tech meetups are a great place to socialise, talk shop and learn new skills.

Android is a great mobile OS and is based on Linux so has a pretty solid core.

Update: There is a follow-up post to this one here.

In my post on smartphone fixes I touched upon turning off read receipts and presence indication in messaging apps.

I call this one Dog vs Swan.

I decided to upgrade my ageing laptop that I’ve had for over five years.