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Occasional writing on technology, delivery and a couple of decades in IT, plus the odd daft game and whatever else is worth writing down. No schedule, no filler.
Scotland is being offered a once-in-a-generation rebuild of local government. Before the boundaries take all the oxygen, decide who sits in the new community tier and on whose behalf.
If your inbox is fuller than it was, the useful question isn’t how to empty it.
A daft wee game's save system, a ten-year-old's question, and the two things every organisation should be able to answer about its data.
Twenty-odd years of shipping systems taught me the same lesson over and over: the tech is rarely what decides whether a project lands.
A school-gate chat about kids, games and parental controls left me with a worry — and a list of where any parent can actually start.
A wee satirical fighting game I built ahead of the Holyrood election — pick a champion and see who comes out on top.
We were told the cloud made hardware failure the vendor's problem. Microsoft's own resilience guidance says otherwise — and the repatriation numbers are worth a look.
A scanning error from a 1950s paper invented a scientific term that means nothing — and it ended up in AI training data. Why the unglamorous checks still matter.
AI can add real value, but plenty of organisations are buying it before they've defined the problem — and the research says that's exactly why these projects fail.
How do you tell whether the technology you're being sold actually does what it claims? On black boxes, humans behind the curtain, and why nobody ever sells you current-gen.