I’d like to think that computers are neutral, a tool like any other… But there is something in the system itself, in the formal logic of programs and data, that recreates the world in its own image. the computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very slim part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity. We place this small projection of ourselves all around us, and we make ourselves reliant on it. the more we surround ourselves with a narrowed notion of existence, the more narrow existence becomes. We conform to the range of motion the system allows. We must be more orderly, more logical. Answer the question, Yes or No, OK or Cancel. We think we are creating the system, but the system is also creating us. We build the system, we live in its midst, and we are changed.
Please don't say the R word
20 January, 2023Tags
A plea for project managers to stop calling people resources
Nobody leaves sober - whimsical trinkets considered harmful
18 July, 2022Tags
Why are the National Trust part of the national problem with substance abuse?
A Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers
13 August, 2021Tags
What developers and doctors might have in common - towards a professional code of conduct for the tech industry
Goals are meaningless, apart from the meaning they provide
23 December, 2020Tags
I started this year without much in the way of goals or resolutions. Just as well really, given what 2020 has brought for us all. I…
Ton up - on reaching 100 parkruns
13 July, 2020Tags
It took me 2 years to get from my first Parkrun to my 50th, and just over 2 years to get from 50 to 100. That might suggest a steady plod…
Ask In The Channel: Private Messages Considered Harmful
26 May, 2020Tags
Anti-patterns in instant messaging, and why teams need to get more comfortable about being vulnerable.
Always leave them wanting more
27 December, 2019Tags
Apparently Amanda Palmer is doing a 4-hour show of songs and talking. It sounds horrible. Not because I have a particular dislike of Amanda…
A new beginning - a first run in Lewes
03 September, 2019Tags
Exploring new running routes in Lewes - a first trip North along the Ouse, with a few wrong turns and some nettles.
There isn't a module for that already?
24 May, 2019Tags
Working with the grain of web technology to give clients what they need, rather than struggling against it to try and give them what they want. Along the way, introducing two new Drupal modules: CKEditor Datetime and Image Styles Display
The bigger picture and the smaller details
20 April, 2019Tags
The importance of taking time to think about where we're going