Some guy who spouts aphorisms and the occasional web browser once said that “all software expands until it is capable of sending emails”. And a not insignificant number

During the course of any given day as a software engineer, there’s the constant novelty of grappling with the issue du jour, but there’s also the repetitive performing

This is a side-rant I previously had in the swagger-combine post but thought I’d split it out here because it was a bit tangential from my over-engineered solution

This post has been written in two parts, The first part, slagging off about YAML, and YAML in swagger in particular (“the problem”), and The second part, presenting

So let’s say you’ve got a database. It holds your recipes or bird-watching notes or juggling instructions or client’s bank details or the solubility of different types of

In the begining there was C

So let’s say you’ve got clients in a few different timezones and have to schedule things across multiple continents. Why not get a clock ? Why not get

Baby. So let’s say you’ve got a phone bill that’s quite large, so you want to convert your vast number of analog phone lines to VOIP, except for

Righteo. Here’s to 2015 and my ability to write things on an infrequent basis. *rummages through old code* Here’s some possibly buggy code that someone else might find

A while back I started doing some work for an old school mate of mine (Hi Tony), on a project which I can’t talk about now but has