Yesterday evening after work we drove to the coast, where I took the photo that features on this post. It’s a view of Southerndown Beach, on the south western coast near Cardiff. One of my favourite spots near us and absolutely stunning all year round. The sea breeze and fresh, salty air were a world away from the reality we had woken up to at 3am that morning, smoke and smell of acrid burning filling…
Category: Tech
It’s been a joy to work on a new case study for Reclaim, this time featuring Ed Beck and his work on the SUNY Oneonta OpenLab. The case study is out now, and openly available, so you can have a read for yourself: https://blog.reclaimhosting.com/case-study-suny-oneonta-openlab In this case study “Ed Beck shares insights into what it takes to move an open-source software solution from experiment to enterprise service. He also explores how to win the support…
At the start of the year I undertook a review of my tech stack, i.e. the tools, platforms and services I use in my professional practice. My aim was twofold: first up, I wanted to make sure I am not paying for services or subscriptions I don’t actually make good use of, and secondly I want to make sure that the technology I do use is, wherever possible, aligned to my values including my commitment…
It’s been a lot of fun to help establish a new blogging community of practice with Jim Groom and the team at Reclaim since that start of the year, and you’ll no doubt hear more about blogging from me as the year goes on 🙂 Alongside that project however I have also had the opportunity to write some case studies based on interview conversations Jim leads, and the first of these has recently been published…
As promised, here’s an update on how things are going when it comes to using technology. If you have missed the first two posts, have a look at me taking stock of the tools and platforms I currently use: One of the things I have taken as read so far is all things open, and what values inform my considerations when it comes to technology. When I think about work, it’s important to me that…
I recently embarked on reviewing my tech stack (read the first part) and as soon as I published the post, I realised the socials weren’t really covered and yet form a big part of my communications tech stack. So in this post, part II if you like, I’m going to focus on my social tech stack. Now, I won’t be mentioning Twitter as I haven’t been active on there for a few years now, ever…