This is the U-1206. It was the peak of submarine technology at the end of the Second World War. Right now it lies at 70 metres depth slightly North West of England. You might say this is an impressive feat for a submarine to be submerged that long. Alas, it is isn’t by design but […]

With the fate of Goo.gl in the balance and many URL shortening/redirection services being either expensive or spammy, I wondered if I could find a free/cheap way of achieving the same. So I got myself a short domain (CLXI.org) and looked at using a GitHub repo with pages to redirect URLs. Turns out, this is […]

Currently I am editing >600 presentations of the WeAreDevelopers World Congress to release the videos at the end of the month. This is frustrating and painstaking work, as both presenters and moderators didn’t quite follow some simple ideas that make a talk a good recording. Conference organisers spend a lot of time and money on […]

We just finished the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 in Berlin, and I am still recovering from the event. It was a fantastic experience, and I am grateful to everyone who attended and made it a success. As the main moderator of the main stage, I had the pleasure of introducing many amazing speakers and topics. […]

Hi there, I am currently slightly freaking out as this week is the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin and I am moderating the main stage with 23 talks in two days and still have to write the closing keynote. Officially the event starts on Thursday, but if you are already in Berlin tomorrow, I put […]