At exactly 100,000 queries per second, TikTok’s payment service stopped being an engineering problem and became an economic one. The APIs fetching user balan...
AI systems need to interact with the world. They need to read files, query databases, call APIs, and access services that require credentials, configuration,...
Cloudflare’s Data Platform announcement deserves attention not for what it builds, but for what it reveals about the economics of distributed analytics. By c...
We’re witnessing the birth of a new computing paradigm. Large language models are shedding their role as sophisticated search engines to become autonomous ag...
Looking at this Chromium vulnerability report, lets examine one of the most sophisticated browser security exploits discovered in recent years. This post sho...
The UK government provides an excellent open data resource through data.police.uk, offering free access to street-level crime statistics, police force inform...
Claude Code’s new plan mode solves a problem most developers didn’t realise they had. We’ve grown accustomed to AI tools that immediately start generating co...
You’ve experienced this before: an AI tool generates beautiful frontend components whilst simultaneously creating a backend that expects completely different...
Cloudflare’s new pay-per-crawl system sounds reasonable on paper: AI companies pay content creators for the privilege of scraping their work. Finally, some e...
The most profound changes in software development rarely come from new languages or frameworks. They emerge when we fundamentally alter how we approach creat...
Today marks a watershed moment for the serverless ecosystem. Cloudflare has launched Containers, and it fundamentally changes how we think about building app...
The US Embassy in Dublin just dropped a bombshell that should terrify anyone who values digital privacy. Future student visa applicants must now provide “all...
Anthropic’s Research feature demonstrates how multi-agent architectures solve problems that single-agent systems fundamentally cannot handle. Their technical...
Looking at Netflix’s recently published FM-Intent research, I’m struck by how it represents a fundamental shift in recommendation system thinking. Rather tha...
Ask any enterprise architect about their greatest frustration, and they’ll likely describe the same scenario. A simple business concept like “customer” exist...
Software complexity discussions often devolve into frustrating exchanges where participants talk past each other. The reason is simple: we lack a shared defi...
There’s something rather remarkable about SQLite that extends far beyond its ubiquity. Whilst most of us encounter it daily—embedded in our smartphones, brow...
As LLM-powered agents become increasingly sophisticated and granted access to sensitive tools and data, the security implications of prompt injection attacks...
On 12 June 2025, Google Cloud Platform experienced what can only be described as a catastrophic failure that brought down not only their own services but cas...
Pika.page emerges as the more user-friendly option for beginners seeking modern features, while Bear Blog dominates in performance, maturity, and value for e...
The computing landscape is undergoing a subtle but profound shift. As organisations embrace distributed architectures and global deployments, the traditional...
If you’ve heard about Cloudflare’s Developer Platform but aren’t quite sure what it offers, this guide aims to break it down in simple terms without diving t...
In a world where camera manufacturers battle in technical one-upmanship, Fujifilm has made a curious move. The new GFX100RF presents something genuinely diff...
Technical leadership in early-stage companies presents a fascinating paradox. The very skills that propel one to the CTO position—deep technical knowledge, a...
I’ve just stumbled upon what might be the most comprehensive resource on camera lens technology I’ve ever seen, and I simply had to share it with fellow phot...
The announcement of Z-mount versions of RED’s V-RAPTOR [X] and KOMODO-X cameras marks the first tangible outcome of Nikon’s acquisition of RED. While the mou...
If you’ve ever needed to process data through multiple stages with different throughput rates, handle concurrency gracefully, or build a processing pipeline ...
Remember when we worried about authenticity online? Now we scroll through AI-generated faces, synthetic backgrounds, and algorithm-crafted captions without a...
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Time-series databases are hardly new, but Cloudflare’s Workers Analytics Engine offers an intriguing twist on the traditional approach. After diving into its...
There’s a peculiar phenomenon in software development that often catches project managers and executives off guard: when a software project falls behind sche...
Watch a child gracefully pluck a raisin from a bowl, and you’re witnessing a feat that would humble the world’s most sophisticated robots. Yet these same rob...
Temporal databases just got more interesting. With PostgreSQL 18’s upcoming support for bitemporal primary and foreign keys, we’re seeing a fundamental shift...
This account captures profound insights about leadership, human psychology, and survival in crisis situations through the incredible story of Shackleton’s fa...
Here’s a surprising truth about intelligence: the better you become at recognising patterns, the harder it becomes to break free of them. This isn’t just tru...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-assisted software development, a new category of tools has emerged: repository-to-prompt converters. These utilities ...
In a recent internal meeting, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman made a bold prediction: within two years, most developers might stop coding altogether, tha...
In the world of software engineering, we often glorify elegant algorithms and clean code. Yet, there’s a fundamental truth that frequently goes unacknowledge...
AI Scientist is a groundbreaking system that automates the entire process of machine learning research, from generating novel ideas to producing publication-...
The recent supply chain attack involving polyfill.io, which affected over 100,000 websites including high-profile entities like JSTOR and the World Economic ...
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve at an astonishing rate, organisations find themselves at a critical juncture. The transformative potential of ...
Google has long been the dominant search engine, but in recent years the quality of its search results has noticeably declined. What was once a source of hig...
A startup called Daylight has unveiled a unique new Android tablet featuring a custom 10.5” e-paper-like display boasting a 60fps refresh rate. Whilst e-ink ...
In a groundbreaking new paper, researchers at Anthropic have made significant strides in understanding the inner workings of large language models like Claud...
In the ongoing debate over the EU’s Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, commonly known as Chat Control, a glaring double standard has emerged. According to the la...
The arrival of OpenAI’s GPT-4o marks the beginning of a seismic shift in the world of digital assistants. While Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant have been h...
The UK AI Safety Institute has developed an open source framework called Inspect to evaluate large language models in a flexible and extensible manner. Inspe...
Apple’s recent ‘Crush’ advert for the iPad Pro was meant to be a visual tour de force - a sleek, dynamic display of their flagship tablet’s creative might. I...
The tech world is abuzz with the news of a partnership between Stack Overflow and OpenAI. As developers ponder the implications, questions arise about the fu...
Over the past few decades, software has grown in size and complexity, while efficiency and responsiveness have declined. This troubling trend has far-reachin...
In a major development, the European Union has ruled that Apple must open up iPadOS to sideloading and alternative app stores within the next 6 months, just ...
Reddit, once known as the “front page of the internet,” is clearly facing a growing bot problem that threatens the very nature of the site as a place for aut...
In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the software development landscape, it’s easy to get caught up in the hype surrounding tools...
I’ve recently needed to hash passwords as part of authentication endpoints for an API I’m building using Cloudflare Workers. My complete code is below as I f...
The recent Cloudflare outage is a stark reminder that even the most robust and seemingly secure systems are not impervious to failure. The incident, lasting ...
Web components have garnered a lot of attention as a way to encapsulate and reuse HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Despite their promise for modular development, t...
Function as a Service (FaaS) has made substantial waves in the realm of cloud computing and application development. As a solution architect, it’s essential ...
Yearly smartphone releases have become a ludicrous norm, with companies like Apple, Google, and Samsung barely justifying new models with marginal hardware i...
In the sophisticated landscape of modern web development, the term “Web Standards” often seems interchangeable with “Chrome’s Feature Set.” Mozilla, once a s...
As a first-time CTO of a startup, you have a unique opportunity to shape the direction and growth of the company. However, this role also comes with its own ...
In recent years, there has been a growing discontent among internet users about the quality of search results provided by Google, the world’s largest search ...
Startups can and do use .com domains, and many of them do. However, it is also common for startups to use other types of domains, such as .io, .co, .net, and...
Mary is kindly getting me the Sony 55mm f1.8 Zeiss lens for my α7 IV. I already own the Sony 90mm f2.8 macro, and I’ve been wanting the 55mm for a while beca...
I recently ventured into the world of Notion AI, enabling the features on my workspace with an eager curiosity to see what it could do for my writing. Althou...
After enduring The Rings of Power recently and being unsurprisingly disappointed, I’ve discovered the BBC show Detectorists. This programme has been around s...
I’ve not seen too much talk about Andor and a lot of people I know who’ve watched the other Star Wars TV shows gave it a miss due to Disney fatigue or a lack...
I feel like I should write more.
Mary and I cancelled Netflix and Spotify a few weeks ago due to lack of use.
Watching Musk destroy anything he touches at the moment is excellent entertainment.
Bike Outliner, a rich text editor for macOS (sadly only macOS 😔) has just received an update that includes a neat feature I’ve not seen before.
I’ve been contemplating getting some binoculars for use at air shows and much like when I was looking for a microscope for micrometeorite hunting or looking ...
Everyone keeps going on about how good Keychron keyboards are so I caved and got one. The keyboard I’ve been using for the last 6 years was still working fin...
The official Notion API finally supports code blocks with a recent update. I’ve updated NotionToJekyll to add this functionality. This post is just a test to...
FaceID is amazingly good, particularly considering I was such a lover of TouchID on the iPhone 6S and really did not like the idea of FaceID when it first ca...
I hate iOS. And I also hate Android. For years I developed apps for both platforms (and Windows desktop too) and for this reason I’m an anti-fanboy. I’m all ...
I’ve done the last 3 or 4 Hacktoberfests and really enjoyed the motivation to plough into a project during October.
Having recently moved house, we’ve come to the conclusion that we don’t need and won’t be reinstalling our smart lightbulbs and Amazon Echos, or any other sm...
No. No they’re not. There’s too much misinformation floating around about this issue and it’s easy to prove they’re not. Although when using Guid.NewGuid() y...
I’ve just added post category and tag support to NotionToJekyll using two multi-select columns. This input type is perfect for these fields as they’re just s...
I use Notion as my personal knowledgebase and normally write blog posts in temporary pages and then manually publish them to my Jekyll site using SiteLeaf. W...
There’s no built-in multiple select in Blazor but it’s pretty easy to get one working without any libraries.
This blog uses Jekyll and I’ve no plans to change that - Jekyll is a great static site generator with plenty of features and a high level of maturity. Once i...
Spring 2021 is still outlined as the release timeframe for the Notion API and I can’t wait. I’ve been using Notion since becoming a Lead Developer to try and...
I’d just started drafting a post about combining HTMX with Razor pages to produce dynamic web applications and thought I’d better quickly check the internets...
I’ve published a dataset on GitHub that comprises of a single CSV file containing every locomotive in the UK. This includes historic and private locomotives,...
Some employers, utility companies, banks or government departments still require you to be in possession of physical documents - it’s now 2021 and this is st...
Whilst reading about the plan for Entity Framework Core 6.0 I noticed a remark about .Net Standard that I’d not clocked last year.
I like Windows 10. As a developer using .Net and Azure I use Windows all the time and generally think it’s pretty great. However out of the box it does conta...
I recently wanted to upload something to an Azure Storage Blob Container and specify the content type without having to make another request, sadly there’s c...
A couple of days ago Epic released a video showing a demo for Unreal Engine 5. If you’re reading this then you’ve likely already seen that video, but I wante...
With the ongoing pandemic and ‘lockdown’ facing a decent chunk of the planet, we’ve had to resort to video calls with our families using FaceTime, Facebook M...
I’ve recently been looking into how exactly nosql document databases work. Not just existing solution APIs like Amazon DynamoDB and Azure CosmosDB, I mean ho...
You can set a timer triggered Azure Function to run on startup when built for development like this:
Sadly Microsoft’s documentation on this is non-existent at the moment and there are a couple of tricky parts that caught me out the first time I tried so I t...
For the third year in a row I attended Tech Nottingham’s Hack24; a 24 hour hackathon hosted in the heart of Nottingham and sponsored by some of the most prom...
I recently had the need to access a property in another property in C#. Accessing a property value is trivial using PropertyInfo but it’s only capable of acc...
Earlier today I turned Cloudflare’s automatic email obfuscation off on this site. Why you might ask? Well because it was the only JavaScript on this site and...
Jekyll makes it trivial to edit a site’s look and feel, just modify your sass files and push to Github. I keep playing around with colours, paddings and font...
At home I use two computers: a 13 inch MacBook Pro for less intensive tasks and a Dell Precision T1700 with a 4K monitor when I want to stretch the software ...
Having spent a lot of time recently (even more than normal) working with Git I decided to once again migrate my site to another content management system. I ...
Whilst studying for my integrated master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Lincoln, I’m also demonstrating on a number of modules to enhance ...
Google seems to be in the habit of making helpful little websites packed with info for developers. An apparently new addition to their line-up is the Device ...
The White House has told the Supreme Court that APIs can be copyrighted (arstechnica.com). This is generally being perceived as terrible news, the design of ...
First of all, I feel it’s important to make clear that I’m typically a ‘Windows person’, that is to say, I’ve always used Windows as my primary OS. Of course...
I thoroughly enjoy looking at implementations of font combinations; the use of space, colour and content are all interesting considerations when choosing whi...
I never need much of an excuse to try a new CMS, subsequently I’ve created a new website for myself to showcase my photographic efforts using Koken. Recently...
Ello.co is a new social network that’s caused a bit of a stir online due to its anti-Facebook attitude, the manifesto makes this fact pretty clear…
Have a look at these delightfully colourful representations of a few common data structures and algorithms. Sometimes grasping fundamental concepts can be ac...
How can web forms be reformed into a 21st century tool for data input? Codrops have published an interesting take on the traditional form that improves usabi...
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protect...
Having attended Dr Richard Stallman’s interesting talk at Lincoln University yesterday, I thought I’d have a look on Twitter at reactions to his militant vie...
Finding a source of inspiration for a new project can be tough, I think so at least. So when I stumbled upon Awwwards my mind was blown. This site hands out ...
Project Tor enables anyone to browse the internet anonymously as if from another side of the planet. This is useful to those wanting to engage in shady activ...
As you will be aware by now, I’ve been following the beta journey of Moot, a new and exciting forum system designed to eradicate dated phpBB forums from the ...