Hi!
I’m a curious, tinkering, cooking, software product manager and leader from Manchester in the UK. I’ve worked solo, founded companies, tried, failed, succeeded, built products, solved problems, led teams, been acquired, and had a lot of fun.
I’m currently looking for my next adventure, if I might be able to help you then please get in touch.
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Recently I’ve been working on a project we’re testing in Travis CI and we need to include some submodules referencing private GitHub repositories then run the tests on the combined code. Naturally Travis fails to retrieve the submoduled repositories, because it’s not authorised…
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The Business of Open Source – at WordPress Bucharest
Last Friday I was honoured to be invited to speak about the Business of Open Source at the WordPress Bucharest meetup.
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Removing files called X and containing Y in Bash
I recently had cause to remove all files with a particular name and containing a particular string from some production servers. Below is the Gist I used to do it.
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Taking apart the 23003.31 model ceramic lamp holder
I spent HOURS googling for how to disassemble these lamp holders, and even longer sitting trying to get the darned things apart by hand. In the end, as is so often the way, my dad came to stay and he worked…
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Making a Penguin birthday cake
I’ve always made Rufus’ birthday cakes since he was born, and I didn’t want to fall at the first hurdle. Last year, a monkey cake, and this year… a penguin. Luckily the first Google search result for “penguin cake” looked both amazing…
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