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The Wolds 20 Challenge 2026 - Completed in 7h 42min April 26, 2026
Last year the Wolds 20 was a challenge to see what I was capable of, having tailed off my training...
The Wolds 20 Challenge 2025 - Completed in 7h 54min April 27, 2025
Completed The Wolds 20 Challenge in 7 hours and 54 minutes, a challenging 20-mile walk through the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds...
Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge - Completed in Under 12 Hours with Modo25 May 31, 2024
Completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge in under 12 hours with colleagues from Modo25, climbing Pen-y-ghent, Whernside, and Ingleborough in...
Completing My BSc in Computing and IT, 6 Years with the Open University October 05, 2021
Results day is the 30th of November 2021 and with a bit of luck I might get a graduation ceremony...
How Lo-Fi Music Helps Me Focus and Stay Productive July 15, 2021

Development

Developers Up North Hull Social - April April 24, 2026
Conversations in the online space are very much about AI and it was interesting to see that continue offline.
Antigravity is Getting Me Down April 23, 2026
I am huge fan of Google and the Google stack, but even though I get on well with Gemini, they...
The Myth of AI Gatekeeping April 08, 2026
The criticism of restricted frontier model access misses the point. When a tool reaches state-actor capability, controlled scaling isn't gatekeeping,...
Getting to grips with Claude Code March 13, 2026
A few weeks into using Claude Code as part of our development workflow — what works, what doesn't, and how...
Setting Up WSL2 and Docker for Development April 22, 2021
To date I have largely been using containers from Windows, can I work with WSL?
Learning Python: My Journey into Data Engineering March 26, 2021
Rebuilding My Personal Site with Jekyll and GitHub Pages March 26, 2021
I wanted to create a new site, I used Jekyll

Data strategy

Why bringing an AI "Revolution" to the Judiciary is a Data Architecture Challenge March 27, 2026
Revisiting Hannah Fry’s 'Hello World' to explore why 'black box' AI systems in legal and medical sectors are a data...

Events

Google I/O 2023: AI, PaLM2, and the Future of Search May 12, 2023
Hands-On with AI Hackathon - Learning Azure Data Science in Leeds May 06, 2023
The event was a great opportunity to learn about the applications of AI technologies in different fields, and to get...
PyCon UK 2022 - Three Days of Python Learning and Community September 20, 2022
I had underestimated was the sheer amount of enthusiasm I would come back with. Spending time with many different people...
My Experience at MarTechFest 2021: Returning to In-Person Events October 22, 2021
Attending an in person Marketing Event at the tail end of a pandemic was a change of pace and required...

Book review

Book Review: So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport January 31, 2023
Cal Newport challenges the 'follow your passion' advice and argues that building rare and valuable skills is the real path...
Book Review: How to Be a Productivity Ninja - A Critical Look December 21, 2022
Productivity Ninja is a series of actions and processes to help you improve your productivity. It's not fantastic going when...
Book Review: Atomic Habits - Building Better Daily Routines with James Clear August 18, 2022
Doing a little, every day, leads to progressive change. It doesn't sound like a new idea, but it is a...
Book Review: 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management by Kevin E. Kruse July 27, 2021
A disappointing productivity book that's mostly filler, with two-thirds of the content being emails from people who seem to have...
Book Review: Eat That Frog! - Some Productivity Strategies That Work May 08, 2021
As part of my drive to be more efficient I have been working through several books on getting things done,...