My Bicycle History
The Roses
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Weight and Health
In four months I turn 48. I am 5’8” (173 cm) and weight 15st 10lb (100kg). I am unfit and have a very sedentary lifestyle because I work from home as a software developer and spend most of my days sitting at a desk. My BMI is 33.4 when it... [Read More] -
Unchaining Data
Plain text files are very portable. There is no tie-in to any particular editor or application or even operating system. The problem is that most documents we create are not stored as plain text and so our data is chained up and restricted to where and how it can be... [Read More] -
The Month of Linux on my Desktop
One month ago I wrote about trying Linux for work. A fair amount has happened since then so I thought I’d post a quick update. [Read More] -
The Year of Linux on my Desktop?
Last week I decided to scratch an itch and tried using Linux for the first time in about 15 years. I wanted to see if would be possible to do my work on it now that I no longer absolutely needed to use macOS. [Read More] -
Functional Programming (Over?) Simplified
Since changing track from being a macOS application developer to being an Elixir developer a few people have asked me about functional programming and how it is different to object-orientated programming. This is my answer, written from the perspective of an Elixir programmer rather than being an exact, academic definition.... [Read More] -
Keep Moving
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Ecto and Binary IDs Generated By PostgreSQL
Version Info: Elixir 1.7 / OTP 21, Ecto 3.0 and Postgres 10 [Read More] -
From Evernote to Notes
I have been using Evernote for several years and I pay for a Premium plan because I need to use more than two devices and some of my attachments are over 25MB in size. The system is very capable and includes some really nice features including OCR’ing text in images... [Read More] -
Five Great Things About Elixir
My career as a developer has evolved through various languages and platforms during the last 20-something years and for the last decade I’ve mainly focused on Apple’s macOS and iOS platforms using Objective-C and Swift whilst occasionally using other languages such as Python and JavaScript. Occasionally I hear about ‘the... [Read More]