This is part 3 in a series consisting of “Some Notes on DSLR Wildlife Photography” and “Further Thoughts on DSLR Wildlife Photography”, updated based on my current kit and approach. The above image is a reasonable example of where my photography is at now; it’s a quickly-taken opportunistic image that…

’Twas Boris and the slimy cove Did lie and bimble on his way All flimsy were his moral codes His ego ruled the day Beware the Battenburg, my son! That springs from ambush, fools to catch Beware the Camembert, and shun The friv’lous party hats! He’d set a law for…

This is part 2 of a series of 3, also containing: Some Notes on DSLR Wildlife Photography More Thoughts But No Reflections Back in October, I posted “Some Notes on DSLR Wildlife Photography” on this site, with some thoughts on what I’d learned in my first few months of photographing…

GraphQL is a powerful, flexible technology that can revolutionise your approach to APIs and massively accelerate their development. There’s just one problem: it’s incredibly difficult to fully understand. In the last 3 years I’ve worked on three major API-based projects; an internal GraphQL API for a mobile game, the public…

It’s been my great pleasure this year to work on one of the most interesting and challenging projects of my career — the international collaboration project between LINX, AMS-IX and DE-CIX to create and implement the IX-API specification. In brief, the IX-API project is intended to provide a common, consistent…

Some time ago, a friend of my wife’s invited us for a drink. I ended up finding some of the best beer and conversation I’ve had in my life. It wasn’t just that first venue — to be honest, I can’t even remember which we went to that time. It…

The problem with Brexit isn’t simply that it’s an exceptionally bad idea, it’s that it’s left us with a national political conversation which has abandoned any expectation of integrity and honesty. It’s a problem that has been brewing for decades, although the roots go back centuries. Since the Second World…

When the cause is political, the effects are political — Those complaining about politicising deaths caused by state failures show you that they can only see politics one way: as an antagonistic point-scoring game. On the other hand, those complaining about deaths caused by state failures show you they recognise politics as a way to save and improve lives. Politicians…

A bad enough question in a social situation where the answer “I’m a software engineer” causes your correspondent’s eyes to instantly glaze, but even worse when you’re talking in a technical environment, or job hunting. The thing is, whatever it is I do, I’ve been doing it for just short…