Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Forcing people back into the office is a massive step backwards

One of the annoying things in the current tech market decline is the drive by companies to RTO - return people to office. To me, it represents a massive step back in the modern workplace. It is a blow to inclusivity and a knee-jerk reaction to show the stock market decisiveness and “leadership”. Face to […]

8 years on Edge

First of June will be the day when I won’t be working at Microsoft any more. This will mark my eight years and a few months tenure there. I am very happy about all the things I was able to do there and grateful for all the great people I worked with. The start: Hey, […]

Linkshare – a GitHub Pages template to store links and share them on social media

With Twitter shutting down its APIs my automatic bookmarking of links broke, so I thought I use GitHub and GitHub pages to store links I talked about instead. Enter Linkshare, a GitHub Pages template that makes it simple to copy your links in a shareable format to use on Twitter, Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc… You can […]

Migraining to a new server

As MediaTemple ceases all grid servers, I had to move this to a new shared server. I hope all is OK and I am still on it.

Continuous growth is cancer

I am currently affected by the wave of layoffs in the technology industry and this isn’t my first rodeo. The difference is that it feels worse this time as I am not only annoyed by losing my job, but I am starting to feel that the system is incredibly flawed. Instead of building a sustainable […]