41–50 of 675 posts
Because its guaranteed to be unique perspectives about things everyone take for granted and its written for clearing up somE of my own thinking. Especially “The problem with Problems”, “Slaves of the feed - This is not the real-time we’ve been looking for” and “The Ghost Protocol” should be interesting to anyone in the startup tech space.
Probably only worth it for reading specific posts such as how I'm using vim as an IDE [1], how database schemas and event sourcing are a great pair [2], or just my 'du-jour' weekend projects that end up in Show HN. I find having a blog invaluable for note-taking, personal growth and honing my writing skills; that's why there's no data tracking or comments built-in for now. But feel free to reach out, any advice will be appreciated!
I only ever wrote 4 posts, but they all got very good feedback (including HN /Reddit front page). I've been meaning to get back to writing since forever.
https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com Long story short. I was 18... graduated high school and knew it all. I was going to get a good job, work my way up the ladder, get paid well, and live happily ever after with the girl of my dreams, wherever she was. Yeah... it didn't end up like that at all. I hated my job. I wondered why I did it. For the paycheck. Until one day, after 3 years of service with the company, I as…
I have worked in transport for over 5 years in software and have read most of the technical books in the internal London Underground library. I generally have read >50 technical books a year.
In my blog I collect and distill what I have learnt. I write about transport, software development and things I feel others should know.