When I introduced go-tool-base I made a passing promise to come back to “the generator that won’t clobber your edits”. This is me keeping it, partly because it’s the feature I’m quietly most proud of, and partly because it took the most …
“Make it work with AI” has become one of those requests that lands on a developer’s desk with a thud and not much further detail attached. My instinct, the first time, was to brace for a big lump of integration work… a bespoke adapter for …
If you’ve written more than two or three command-line tools in Go, you’ll recognise the shape of the first afternoon. I certainly do! You reach for Cobra for the command tree, Viper for config, and then you start the part nobody ever puts …
I like Mediawiki, it is a simple tool capable of doing a lot and can be very flexible and easy to customise. However its not always the right solution! I had a situation where we needed to migrate away from using it for a combination of …
Recently there has been an uptake in the use of Neo4j by the Data Scientists. This is a good thing! they are wanting to use the right tool for the job. However we need to run it inside our k8s cluster as a portable readable data source that …
I’m a Dungeon Master! I don’t mean that in the S&M sense! As in the game Dungeons & Dragons (https://dnd.wizards.com), where I run a weekly game as well as take part in a couple of campaigns as a player. It’s a lot of fun and something I …
Encryption is king nowadays with everyone having mobile devices. We have a significant number of people on laptops that travel around and also workstations that live in open plan offices. This means we encrypt all of our disks… just in …
We have a mix of different setups that the Software Engineer and Data Scientists use to get their work done. There are some using just Linux on laptops, Some on MacBooks and some on the various versions of Windows.
For those not using Linux …
Recruiting people is effing hard!
That’s all… I’ll get back to reading through CVs now and let you get on with your day!
Medicines Discovery Catapult is, at the time of writing, recruiting Software Engineers, and as “Head of” it falls to me …
I love Ubuntu… I’m pretty fond of dell kit too!
So I was rather chuffed when I started working at Medicines Discovery Catapult because they let me have both. When you look at my desk it looks like it could be an advert for Dell. Laptop, …
