2017-09-01T17:12:33.962Z

There's something that I can't abide in blog posts, and that's Javascript framework comparisons . I realise that in the rich pagent of problems the world is facing this is quite minor, but still, it's annoying. When I see someone has written a new…

2016-06-12T17:12:33.962Z

I haven't bothered to keep track of the number of blogs I've set up for myself, for friends and professionally over the past 20 years. It's certainly a lot. Once, long ago, it was a matter of writing some custom PHP scripts and developing a database…

2015-11-12T17:12:33.962Z

In the world of apps, software, and all things internet there’s a trend towards ‘beauty’ being an important feature of a product. Considering beauty is an intangible quality based on cultural and very personal biases this seems like an impossible…

2015-10-12T17:12:33.962Z

Start-up cliche #37 (of ∞) – “This app we’re working on is going to be the next Facebook|Google|Amazon|Salesforce !” The next Facebook is already being written. In an office somewhere, a team of developers are hacking together a new take on a social…

2015-09-12T17:12:33.962Z

“You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” When Dominic Monigihan said those now famous and perhaps-too-much-cited-in-Internet-forums words he was talking about people’s use of opinion to disguise arguments in…

2015-08-12T17:12:33.962Z

Epicurus had a bit of a bad name when he was alive. People in Athens where he lived thought of him as a hedonist, and thought the school he founded was all feasts and orgies. The reason for this misunderstanding was the fact he went around telling…

2015-07-12T17:12:33.962Z

For the past 3 weeks I’ve eaten a bacon sandwich every Friday morning. So, presumably, it’d be reasonable to assume that I’m going to eat another bacon sandwich this coming Friday morning too. I certainly hope so. I like bacon sandwiches. This is an…

2015-06-12T17:12:33.962Z

Surprisingly little is known about Socrates. If we skim over the theory that Plato made him up, we know he was a philosopher who lived in Athens, we know he was married to Xanthippe, and we know he had three sons. As a philosopher, we know he used to…