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I learned something from a colleague two decades ago that has stuck with me since.

I watched WWDC this year, and as with most years, didn’t really care about most of what I saw. The usual suspects made an appearance: required re-work that you won’t…

Graham and I have started a new project. We are Dos Amigans: two Amiga nerds who are broadcasting our foray into software development on the Amiga platform. We’re having a…

I’ve seen a few “n Things I Learned Working Remotely” posts in recent history, as people migrated to remote work from office-based work and described their experiences. I’ve made the…

I am pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking at Elm Malmö on Friday, 23 November 2018. My talk will be about my early experience with Elm while using it…

Our life in Sweden started as these kinds of moves do for many people: in the arrivals section of an airport. After flying all night, and having a several-hours layover…

At NSScotland 2015, Amy Worrall gave a talk about how to enable your Mac programs to be scriptable with AppleScript. AppleScript itself, and the APIs around AppleScript haven’t changed much…

I first discovered and started using Free Software as a child. I was a Debian developer at one point before I was old enough to drive a car. I learned…

As a result of my family’s move from the east-coast of Canada, to the west-coast, I wound up in public school in Victoria, BC. The Victoria school board was Mac-centric….

When I was a child, my family moved from the east to the west coast of Canada. After the move, I talked to my cousin on the east coast using…