I once did a hundred hours in a weekend. Seventy-two of them without sleep, before I gave up and had a lovely little nap on the staff-room sofa, halfway through the Monday morning meeting, in front of everyone. Nobody …
Back in 2019 I wrote that recruiting people is effing hard, and then more or less left it there, because I had a stack of CVs to wade through and you had a day to be getting on with. That post was written from the slush …
I named myself, professionally, after a rule about litter. The Boy Scout Rule is the one every camp drills into you: leave the campsite cleaner than you found it. Robert Baden-Powell’s version, in the last message he …
By any sensible reading of an org chart, I have no business being in this file. I’m a Head of Software Engineering. My calendar reckons I should be in a room somewhere talking about headcount and roadmaps. Instead it’s …
Seven years ago I wrote a post called Technical CV writing is hard, pulled my own CV apart, and explained every choice in it. I even bragged that it converted to a first interview about eighty per cent of the time, then …
The blog you’re reading used to be a Jekyll site on GitHub Pages, built on the lovely beautiful-jekyll theme. It isn’t any more: it’s Hugo now, published to GitLab Pages. The hosting move rode along with go-tool-base …
Recruiting people is effing hard! That’s all… I’ll get back to reading through CVs now and let you get on with your day! Medicines Discovery Catapult is, at the time of writing, recruiting Software Engineers, and as …
So… my last post was a good 2 years ago now…. Hi how have you been? It’s been a very busy couple of years with a lot of stuff shifting in my personal life meaning things inevitably take a back seat. However its been long …
Over all the time that I’ve been a developer I’ve had people telling me that I should get in front of an audience and speak. However I’ve always suffered from a rather bad case of ‘Imposter Syndrome’ which meant my …
So… Its been a long time since I posted anything of any relevance. This is due to having been super busy with my previous company Zucchi. However that has all changed now! After three and a half years of running my own …