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British Red Cross | Various platform engineering and service delivery roles | ONSITE at various UK locations (London, Paisley, Manchester) or REMOTE UK, requires UK RTW and Residen…

I think I tend to agree here. I've taught a few terms of the Python courses through @codeclub to primary school children in the UK (aged 10-11) using IDLE and it works well. It's a…

I've been teaching the curriculum of @codeclub for 4 years now (see elsewhere in this thread) as an optional after school club in the U.K. It's massively over subscribed every term…

Plus one for this option, I've been teaching the same curriculum for nearly 4 years now, it keeps getting better and better in terms of the resources available as a teacher.

I moved after I left Microsoft, and I never looked back. The key for me was doing it at the right time for me, but also within the right place. I would never have taken a managemen…

Yes,it's a UK tradition which, if I'm correct relates back to WW2 and growing your own stuff in harsh times. It's still really common in the UK and one can get a good plot of land …

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I'm back in the industry at the moment, but I did quit my job a few years back. I hired an allotment, grew a lot of vegetables, taught myself to bake bread and did a few other proj…

favourites by category: - fitness: Becoming a supple leopard - fiction: Seveneves - non fiction: Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think D…

I've had a yahoo mail account for over 10 years now (and my wife has as well). For me it's a marginal account which I don't use that much (I keep it for family members to contact m…

I used this link, but same principle as the other reply. http://osxdaily.com/2016/03/22/downgrade-ios-9-3-back-to-ios... Thing to note is that I didn't have the bug in 9.2.1 so I a…

I actually rolled back to 9.2.1 manually but this didn't fix it anyway, which was even more disappointing! Also the restore from backup was sooooo slow over the weekend, presumably…

Private Eye (subscriber to the print version), The Guardian (online, although am losing interest as it's becoming increasingly click bait as it tries to stop its massive financial …

the closest to anything really mainstream I'm aware of currently is CloudFare in Kenya. When I saw this last year it gave me some hope that the bigger players may start to look at …

I'm intrigued to see when someone launches in Africa.

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas - I discovered this via my volunteering with @codeclub teaching primary school children to program using scratch