lessons

Once upon a time (in high school), a classmate bashed on what was then my preferred hobby: Dungeons and Dragons. His main argument was that, while not harmful, playing D&D was ultimately a waste of time. He challenged me to … Read more

In the recent article The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong, I was somewhat surprised to see the argument that BBSs are a part of the Internet origin story that is often omitted. Surprised because I was there for … Read more

By Megan Parker and Sam Wheating Apache Airflow is an orchestration platform that enables development, scheduling and monitoring of workflows. At Shopify, we’ve been running Airflow in production for over two years for a variety of workflows, including data extractions, … Read more

As you may have recently seen, I’ve recently gone through the interviewing process and joined Deliveroo as a Senior Software Engineer. This was different to my last move to the Cabinet Office, as I only applied for that role, whereas … Read more

Summary Introduction This document describes some of my thoughts following the successful transition of a desktop terminal emulator program from Go and Gtk 2 to Ada and Gtk 3. The rewrite took place over a period of four months beginning … Read more

Lessons from Learning Ada in 2021 Ada can be difficult to approach due to using a different vernacular to most other languages, and also having many unfamiliar structures and ways of doing things. This is an overview of the Ada … Read more

The Flutter HttpServer and WebView are the two most important dependencies of my app. Without one or the other, my app will simply not work in that environment. From my experiences with iOS and CocoaPods, these days I look at … Read more