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26 Nov 2024

What's the latest? Nov 2024

I've started a slightly unusual job setup, with half my week at Dstny, the rest is primarily on a new venture called Haptap.

27 Sep 2024

Offline Movie Browser

Creating the world's simplest movie browsing website for offline film collections.

12 Jul 2024

Why won't my Synology server stay shutdown?

I've got an old (but trusty) Synology DS215j NAS. Cheap and cheerful. The only down side is that until recently you couldn't keep it off.

29 May 2024

Trying Out Now Pages

Trying out "Now" pages as an alternative to the traditional "About" page. Aiming to bring the reader up-to-date with an author's wider context.

20 Apr 2024

Perl Performance - Is 2 Slower Than 1?

I recently watched a talk given by Tim Bunce called 'Performance Profiling with Devel::NYTProf'. The talk is from 2015 but it is still very relevant for Perl profiling today.

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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