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20 Sep 2023

Lightning Talk Reflections

At a recent company away day I gave my first lightning talk. The constraints were it needed to be 5 minutes and at least loosely related to technology and/or the work we do at Dstny.

09 Sep 2023

Fog Creek Software's Programming Documentary

If you are at all involved in writing software I would highly recommend watching the film Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks With Geeks. It's a documentary filmed in 2005 following four interns at Fog Creek Software, in NYC.

14 Jul 2023

Building voiptoolbox.net Chapter 3 - SIP Auth Headers

How can you tell if an Authorization header in a SIP request is correct? VoIP Toolbox can now help you replicate the auth calculations to confirm things are working as expected.

30 Jun 2023

Spotify Podcast RSS Format

Notes on a recent project to go from blog posts with attached MP3 files to an RSS podcast feed ready for Spotify.

31 May 2023

Cloudflare Email Routing

A colleague recently told me about Cloudflare's Email Routing service. This is a free service which can handle scenarios ranging from basic forwarding of emails from A to B right up to more complicated logic flows that utilise workers. This post is a bit of an overview based on my recent experience playing with the service.

Currently based near Bath, working at Dstny Automate. I’ve been fiddling with technology for as long as I can remember. I use this site as a place to blog about interesting development stories and web projects that I think others might find useful.

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