Jul, 2025

The Evolution of Career Paths for Junior and Mid-career Engineers

…where I document my thoughts on the changing career paths for Software Engineering, affecting Junior and Mid-career engineers, and the implications of AI-assisted development on these roles. Ultimately I think it will put additional pressure on the mid-career engineers, and create a bottleneck in the career progression.
Jul, 2025

El Peix d’Or - Barcelona

A sculpture by Frank Gehry created for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, It stands right beside the swimming pool at the Hotel Arts in Barcelona, where I spent a few days, walking around the city, on the beach, drinking coffee, etc.

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Jul, 2025

Implementing an Objective-C runtime from scratch

What motivates someone to adopt one of the ten least desired programming languages in 2025? An exploration of Objective-C’s runtime library, its dynamic dispatch system, and the implementation of a custom runtime library targeting GCC.
May, 2025

Praia Grande - Sintra - Portugal

The Sintra Arribas Hotel, just beside the “Praia Grande” beach, has a 100m salt-water pool which is mostly completely empty. An easy one hour trip from the center of Lisbon.

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Mar, 2025

Kreuzberg Sunset

There are some nice sunsets in Berlin, particularly when you’re in Tempelhof Feld at the right time. This one was taken just beside Hasenheide.

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Feb, 2025

Above the Clouds

It’s always a pleasure and privilege to ski on a sunny day, on a mountain, and sometimes above the clouds in the valley.

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Feb, 2025

HAAi - Can't Stand To Lose

Oct, 2024

Tinos, Greece

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Apr, 2024

Arooj Aftab - Raat Ki Rani

Aug, 2023

Matthew Halsall - Mountains, Trees and Seas

Sep, 2022

Björk - fossora

Try as I might I cannot listen to a recent(ish) Björk album all the way through. I see the reviews giving thumbs up, and it makes me double check my own assumptions.

fossora (note the lowercase ‘f’!) has not changed this opinion.

Looking at the albums I have (not all of them) I enjoyed until Vespertine, in 2001. And then something changed. Volta, Vulnicura and fossora all come from the same place.

Sep, 2022

William Klein is Dead

At “William Klein: Yes” exhibition. He was the master of fashion photography for Vogue and a wide body of work in vignettes of life in Tokyo, Moscow and New York. rip.

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