Garage was the first dance music I ever loved that felt like it belonged to a specific place. Not a club, a city. Those skippy two-step records with the pitched-up vocals and the MCs over the top were London in a way …
This is always pegged to the people who will be building and circumstantial to the requirements of the project, so I’ll break it down into the questions I actually ask when scoping out a job. I started this in …
If you grew up in New Zealand, drum and bass isn’t an underground genre. It’s the radio. It’s the New Year’s festival. It’s what the sixteen-year-olds at the skate park are playing out of a …
One of the struggles I have come to know intimately over a career as a programmer is the tendency to over-engineer solutions. You constantly walk a knife edge trying to write good clean code and also deliver on time, …
I’ve been a progressive house guy for as long as I’ve been a DJ. Deep driving basslines that make you feel like you are going somewhere you will never reach, and twenty-something years later I still reach for …
I’ve been DJing for the best part of two decades, and I’ve spent more hours listening to other people’s mixes than I have working - in the car, at my desk, waiting in airports, on my (sweet) yellow …
If you’ve ever played Tetris you know this feeling. The stack is getting high. You’ve left one column open down the side, a nice deep well, and you’ve been filling in everything around it for what …
I’m writing a book. There. That’s the hard part done, because one of the chapters in it is about how your word is the most valuable thing you own - say what you’ll do, then do it. Which makes …
Think back to the calmest, most stable stretch of your life. Good job, decent health, nothing on fire. Now try to remember what you were upset about at the time. There’ll be something. There’s always …
We’re currently living through the early years of the most significant technological shift since the printing press. Artificial intelligence can now write essays, pass bar exams, diagnose diseases, generate art, …
So your boss / client / lover? Comes to you and says, “Have you used a CRM before? I think we need one, but I’m not willing to pay any money for it right now and I’ve heard HubSpot is good. Can you …
I have been mixing music as a DJ for going on some 18+ years now (you can check me out here), and felt I should really share some of my knowledge with those who might be starting out or want some direction on how to …
Morning 80’s feeling beats and videos Poolside.fm is on a pretty constant rotation on my second monitor when I just want to feel like I’m working in ready player one. Great for your morning get up. There are …
Over the years I have been fortunate enough to spend some time in some absolutely amazing teams. I love the people, working together was fun and fulfilling even when the work itself was shit or incredibly stressful. And …
I believe that this cycle is one of humanity’s greatest abilities and think it should be studied, understood and encouraged in all. Nothing I cover here should really be a surprise, but I find it’s always good to …
I’ve just completed my first code signed Windows App, Style for Windows and found the process to be a bit of a nightmare for the uninitiated. In many cases I found it was presumed that you already have a …
