It’s ok to fail, it’s not ok to not try
COLEVANS Dear Reader, I tried to learn to play the Trumpet I opened a hosting company whose selling point was…
Make a point to learn
COLEVANS Dear Reader, You make time for the things that are important to you. Look at your calendar for the…
Keyboard control of macOS notification alerts
AKRABAT I use Apple’s Reminders app to remind me about things that I need to do. It has the useful…
Setting up IBM Cloud Object Storage
AKRABAT For a little website that I’m writing, I thought that I’d use IBM Cloud Object Storage (equivalent to AWS…
Help Someone
COLEVANS Dear Reader, All of us have platforms; some of them are just a packing crate, others are tall mountains.…
Make it last
COLEVANS Dear Reader, When I started Day Camp 4 Developers, it was a one-off project to raise funds for a…
Systems have to be fault tolerant
COLEVANS Dear Reader, In scuba diving, you breath through a device called a regulator. Regulators are designed to fail “open”.…
Systems, not goals
COLEVANS Dear Reader, I spent many years setting New Year’s resolutions only to see them slip by the wayside by…
Serverless PHP on AWS Lamda
AKRABAT Like, Simon Wardley, I think that serverless computing is an interesting space because the billing is granular (pay only…