Technology – Postcards

Projects: Build your own Radio Telescope

November 16, 2020 No Comments

This is a cool project to do when the kids are a bit older: The resolution of a telescope’s images depends both on the wavelength at which it operates and on the diameter of its dish. The longer the wavelength, the worse the resolution; and the larger the diameter, the better the resolution. Radio waves […]

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Cities for People Places & Travel Technology

2km from home

May 9, 2020 No Comments

https://2kmfromhome.com/ Very handy!

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Technology

Windows 10 Shutown?

April 29, 2020 No Comments

So, today I learned that Windows 10 doesn’t really shutdown when you tell it to. It’s a feature called ‘fastboot’, and apparently what it does is log users off, and then do a hibernate like stop. Which means that your next boot is fast, a neat feature. I noticed this because the uptime reported in […]

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Coding For Fun and Profit

WordPress: Fix citation colour

February 28, 2020 No Comments

With your own css addition to the template. Add this, adjust to suit, et viola:

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Computing Engineering Organisation & Planning Technology

Good Tools

October 16, 2019 No Comments

I’ve been thinking and reading about technical and non-technical leadership, productivity and leveraging, and this describes very well why you need good tools in your work: Finally there’s a psychological aspect to providing good tools to engineers that I have to believe has a really impact on people’s overall effectiveness. On one hand, good tools […]

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Computer Science History Space Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Pioneer Software Engineer

July 15, 2019July 22, 2019 No Comments

Enjoyable, if brief, interview with Margaret Hamilton, who lead the software team for the Apollo moonshots. I can’t help but notice how few men are ever asked how their lives as parents ever collides with their work. Q: Did your life as a software engineer and a mother ever collide? A: Often in the evening or […]

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Big Business Health Technology

Letting your mind breathe

June 18, 2019June 19, 2019 No Comments

Modern life is making us anxious: Keeping calm in modern life is difficult and even our sleep is under threat from a surprising source. “I love watching Netflix and streaming TV shows, but that’s having an impact on our sleep. Recently the head of Netflix said that his main competitor isn’t another TV company – […]

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Politics Technology

Legitimizing

December 13, 2016 No Comments

Very good point here: When I could get no really substantive on-the-record statements from the tech leaders, I pinged investor Chris Sacca, because I knew he would not let me down. “It’s funny, in every tech deal I’ve ever done, the photo op comes after you’ve signed the papers,” he said. “If Trump publicly commits […]

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Equality Technology

Hiring diverse teams

December 2, 2016December 2, 2016 No Comments

Jonathan Nightingale on hiring: In tech, a common pattern is for hiring managers to say “I don’t care who you are, just show me your hobby projects on github, or your think-pieces on medium” — but a bit of reflection is all it takes to realize that screening based on free-time pursuits gets you more affluent white […]

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Society Technology

Time not well spent

October 11, 2016 No Comments

Interesting: Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone – The Atlantic Harris is the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience. As the co‑founder of Time Well Spent, an advocacy group, he is trying to bring moral integrity to software design: essentially, to persuade the tech world to help us disengage more easily from its […]

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Projects: Build your own Radio Telescope

2km from home

Windows 10 Shutown?

WordPress: Fix citation colour

Good Tools

Margaret Hamilton: Pioneer Software Engineer

Letting your mind breathe

Legitimizing

Hiring diverse teams

Time not well spent

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