Cycling Le Tour Up North: Day 3 When I was planning this adventure I was worried about the first two days, packing in some big miles to give myself breathing room later in the week. I wasn’t worried at all about my so called “rest day”, a short fifty mile middle section to give myself a
Cycling Le Tour Up North: Day 2 Waking on day two, the first thing I noticed was the chill in the air. At just over 1000 feet above sea level, it wasn’t the highest point of the trip, but I was the highest point I’d be camping at for the week. I was slightly concerned
Cycling Le Tour Up North: Day 1 On the 31st August 2020, I set off from MediaCityUK in Salford, to travel back to Pacific Quay on Glasgow on my bike. I wanted to raise money for Children in Need, so I took a slightly different route to the one that would take me directly home as quickly
Software Engineering Reflecting on Close Calls I’d imagine most people reading this are aware of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) meetings. Maybe you know them better as Postmortems. If you’ve not attended one or heard of the concept before, RCAs are meetings following an incident that resulted in unexpected outcome in a system. They can
Cycling Featured Chasing Long Shadows Having not ridden with Colin since this years edition of the Five Ferries (Le Cinque Bateaux in 2021 for sponsorship reasons), it was a welcome WhatsApp notification when he asked if I fancied a pre-Christmas spin. We initially planned to meet at the Whitelee Windfarm, to explore the expansive gravel
Software Engineering Running Ghost on CoreOS with Docker I’ve been wanting get my personal site back up, as well as write more for a wee while now, and finally got round to taking the plunge after seeing Ghost’s incredible new 1.0 features. Not being one to miss a chance to try new things, I saw
Software Engineering Managing Infrastructure on Digital Ocean with Terraform As a general fan of the approach “automate all the things” I decided it was time to do a little more work on this blog. I wanted to be able to setup my blog, from datacentre to browser in one command. I decided to go with Terraform as a method
