WTF
WTF: What’s This For?
I spend a great deal amount of my time fixing and tweaking things. My full time hobby became my full time work at some point, but you cannot keep all of it in your head. Over the years my notebooks have filled with an assortment of notes on how to do certain things, and why things work the way that they do.
This site began as an experiment, as I realized it would not take much tweaking to keep such notes in a form that could be shared. It puts a certain discipline on myself in my writing, and continues to serve as a repository of knowledge that I dip back into myself and I offer it here for anyone else who might find it useful.
To be a technical architect is to be opinionated. You will find that here too.
I am not proposing to transcribe a lifetime of notebooks into blog posts, but rather I have tried to organically capture things that are useful, things I have learned and sometimes just things that need to be said. It may seem a bit of a jumble.
If you find anything useful, or you have an opinion on something I have written, I would love to hear from you! Hit the contact button below.
On this site
How-To: task-oriented notes. backing up data, command-line tooling, Firefox tweaks, deployment pipelines, a Word macro I am not proud of. These exist because I had to solve something once and don’t want to have to solve it twice.
Intelligent Machines: longer pieces on machine intelligence, (I refuse to call it you know what). It has become very unpopular in our culture right now, but it is coming like a freight train in the night. I’ve been working with it for a while, working in an industry that is probably the first to be tranformed by it.
Blog: everything technical that is neither of the above.
A note on the writing
I write in Hiberno-English and use OED spelling. If a sentence reads oddly to you, that may be why, or it might just be that I am talking shite :)