Well with just 9 weeks of training left before the London marathon it is fair to say I am feeling a little under trained. After taking a week off and visiting a physio I started to feel a bit more confident that my leg was getting better and I could…

So in 12 weeks time I will in London probably by now in some pain but hopefully not too far away from completing my first marathon. It is fair to say my preparation so far has not gone to plan, a niggly injury to my calf has meant reducing my…

Nearly 4 years ago now my first child was born which was fantastic, what was not so fantastic was the sleepless nights and the hard work in those first few months. This coupled with being a few weeks before Christmas and having a house full of chocolates and indulgent food…

This is the first in a weekly series of posts mainly for my own benefit to document what I have been up to for the week, some of this is related to my day job so I may redact stuff to protect the innocent. * Whilst browsing reddit I stumbled on…

Back in the days of my first failed attempt at blogging I wrote a post on the gear I was using for my day to day development since then I have moved to a fully remote job and gradually built up my office space. I plan to write a post…

For the last few years I have been running on a pretty regular basis, clocking over 20 miles a week most of the time. Joining a running club has certainly helped with motivation but the thing that has kept me going back for more is Strava [https://www.strava.com/…

> For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to…