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• Antigravity is Getting Me Down

  I am huge fan of Google and the Google stack, but even though I get on well Gemini, they have felt constantly behind in the AI race.

• The Myth of AI Gatekeeping

  The criticism of restricted frontier model access misses the point. When a tool reaches state-actor capability, controlled scaling isn't gatekeeping, it's responsibility.

• Why bringing an AI "Revolution" to the Judiciary is a Data Architecture Challenge

  Revisiting Hannah Fry’s 'Hello World' to explore why 'black box' AI systems in legal and medical sectors are a data architecture liability, not just a technical hurdle.

• Getting to grips with Claude Code

  A few weeks into using Claude Code as part of our development workflow — what works, what doesn't, and how persistent memory and peer review have changed the way I...

• The Wolds 20 Challenge 2025 - Completed in 7h 54min

  Completed The Wolds 20 Challenge in 7 hours and 54 minutes, a challenging 20-mile walk through the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds countryside.

• Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge - Completed in Under 12 Hours with Modo25

  Completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge in under 12 hours with colleagues from Modo25, climbing Pen-y-ghent, Whernside, and Ingleborough in a single day.

• Google I/O 2023: AI, PaLM2, and the Future of Search

• Hands-On with AI Hackathon - Learning Azure Data Science in Leeds

  The event was a great opportunity to learn about the applications of AI technologies in different fields, and to get hands-on experience with them...

• Book Review: How to Be a Productivity Ninja - A Critical Look

  Productivity Ninja is a series of actions and processes to help you improve your productivity. It's not fantastic going when you keep putting the book down as you don't have...

• PyCon UK 2022 - Three Days of Python Learning and Community

  I had underestimated was the sheer amount of enthusiasm I would come back with. Spending time with many different people applying python to different problems and disciplines really shook up...

• Book Review: Atomic Habits - Building Better Daily Routines with James Clear

  Doing a little, every day, leads to progressive change. It doesn't sound like a new idea, but it is a great one to drive home and to consider more pro-active...

• My Experience at MarTechFest 2021: Returning to In-Person Events

  Attending an in person Marketing Event at the tail end of a pandemic was a change of pace and required some thinking...

• Completing My BSc in Computing and IT, 6 Years with the Open University

  Results day is the 30th of November 2021 and with a bit of luck I might get a graduation ceremony in 2022...

• Book Review: 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management by Kevin E. Kruse

  A disappointing productivity book that's mostly filler, with two-thirds of the content being emails from people who seem to have read the same productivity books you probably should be reading...

• How Lo-Fi Music Helps Me Focus and Stay Productive

• Starting My Data Engineering Role at Modo25

  Tomorrow, for the first time in a long time, I am going to be the new guy...

• Book Review: Eat That Frog! - Some Productivity Strategies That Work

  As part of my drive to be more efficient I have been working through several books on getting things done, including the often referenced Eat That Frog!

• Setting Up WSL2 and Docker for Development

  To date I have largely been using containers from Windows, can I work with WSL?

• Learning Python: My Journey into Data Engineering

• Rebuilding My Personal Site with Jekyll and GitHub Pages

  I wanted to create a new site, I used Jekyll