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See also: poopdecks, PowerSlop Slo.ppt is a poor quality slide deck generated with AI.

How do you train up people to tow a long trailer, filled with expensive boats?

Notes on taking a trailer of boats to camp.

When young, I never understood the point of a journal or diary.

This year was a busy year.

Peach Powerline is used for analysing the Peach systems logger data.

I once spent a few weeks trying to use Vim.

Sometimes it’s useful to review an existing codebase.

CloudFormation Rules are a lesser known feature that allow you to validate parameters of CloudFormation templates.

How long would it take you to row 2000 meters?

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

I am often curious about other people’s experiences of courses.

In my first technical role, I managed to get stuck for two weeks.

Here’s a list of useful kit I’ve collected since I’ve started rowing.

April 5th has many finance departments rushing in the UK.

When I was younger, I was very socially awkward.

We all use the wrong ball Go to most squash clubs in the country and you’ll see the double yellow dot ball everywhere.

Squash has a problem There’s not much data available for squash membership, but read the (squash) news and you can see that the game is facing challenges.

Congrats!

Exercises to practice Stand midcourt on one side.

How to rename Linked Services in Azure Data Factory If you’re reading this, you’ve probably hit the same issue I did!

How to set up SQL Server Dev edition on your Windows Docker Machine (and access it from localhost!

One thing I’ve been meaning to fix on this site was changing the logo from the default for the theme.

The Guests of the Graham Norton Show Sick, lying on the sofa trying to pass an evening.

The Office of National Statistics is a brilliant source of interesting data sets.

I am a big fan of ggplot2.

What is Spark?

The Visual Display of Quantative Information by Edward Tufte Summary Last weekend I was browsing my local when I was pleasantly surprised to come across “The Visual Display of Quantative Information” by Edward Tufte.

API’s in R Amanda from Rstudio recently hosted a very helpful Webinar on API’s in R.

Two Years at IBM On July 27th 2017 I reached my two year anniversairy at IBM.

A Morning Routine Whilst listening to my usual parade of podcasts last week, I came across one discussing morning routines of “successful people”.

“Think Positive”.

Burgers For the past few months I’ve been slacking.

The majority of the food I eat (and enjoy), I wouldn’t have considered 5 years ago.

I came across two great new words today (in the Economist - Thanks Emily).

Whilst the UK is digesting the results of the General Election this weekend, I went down a series of rabbit holes that led to this great article on how the exit polls are used to predict the election results.

This is my first post on my website.

After creating the skeleton of the site using blogdown, my first goal is to get it up and running on netlify, using a free domain name.