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Streamline Your Workflow with ChatGPT and Obsidian
ChatGPT has integrated into daily life, serving for research, output interpretation, and image generation. Users can copy interactions into Obsidian, a Markdown editor, to organize and retain information efficiently.
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“From Earth to the Moon” teaches us a little software management
The Apollo era of the space race, was one of the most exciting and energetic periods in the scientific community with many of the foundations of software engineering being pioneered that are still in use today. One of the best TV series to articulate the challenges that had to be overcome is the Tom Hanks Read Post ⇢
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How to handle yourself at a student career fair
When first starting out at university you don’t give too much thought on what job you will eventually land. However as time moves on, there will be opportunities that you need to grab with both hands. Career fairs, company campus visits, guest lectures are just some of the chances for you to get in Read Post ⇢
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Who is looking at your code?
We’re software developers and we take our art form seriously. Our palette is the editor to which we lay down our beautifully crafted code. How we name variables, how we shape methods and how we format code, leaves its own unique DNA sequence that can quickly identify the owner. Even after running code through a Read Post ⇢
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How’s your Software Insurance Policy?
Ask any software developer a list of things they dislike doing the most and chances are testing and documentation will make the top 2. Testing is one of those necessary evils that every software developer must wrestle with. Software developers have a unique confidence (read arrogance) that the code they write is error free and Read Post ⇢
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“Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story” by Robert Bruce Lockhart
If you are mildly interested in the history of Scottish whisky then you can go no wrong with this book written by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. Lockhart, died 20 years ago, and was from a completely different era with a word play that you would expect from the upper-class snobbish of an old boy that Read Post ⇢
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“Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die” by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
This book was recommended by my trusted colleague, Stefan Bauer, as a bit of light reading over the weekend. Weighing in at only 291 pages, it was a book that proved very hard to put down once started. The authors take a look at what it takes to make ideas and messages resonate and stick Read Post ⇢
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“Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation” by David Robertson
We all know (and love?) the humble LEGO brick – that 4 pegged indestructible plastic cube, that come a nuclear attack, along with the the cockroach will be the only things that will survive. I have always been intrigued in the history of this company and how it got a foot hold in the Read Post ⇢
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“Sam Walton: Made In America” by Sam Walton
I’ve recently finished a fascinating book on the history of Walmart, as told by its founder, Sam Walton. Written in the last year before he died in 1992. At that time Walmart was a $53billion turnover company, and for some context, if you had bought $100 shares at its initial IPO in the early 1970’s, Read Post ⇢
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“Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think” by: Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Kenneth Cukier
This book was recommended to me by a colleague and after a few days it was read cover-2-cover and only now am I reflecting back on its message. First thing, the title is completely misleading. Yes the authors talk a lot about “big data”, but that I feel misses the message of the book as Read Post ⇢
the leg-end that is, Alan Williamson.
For over 20 years, I’ve shared my thoughts whenever the muse strikes. It’s unpredictable, honest, unedited, and occasionally witty. I’m living the best years of my life, working harder than ever, and enjoying every second.
Alan Williamson 