Misogynists around me
Or, how I started to see the light on rape culture I have a knee-jerk defensive response to the term rape culture. It feels accusatory. It feels like the intent is to say that “all men are rapists”. I...
View ArticleThoughts on Prometheus
In a line: Prometheus is a stunningly beautiful and perfect execution of a potentially interesting but majorly flawed script. It’s worth seeing, despite the flaws. Major spoilers follow The opening...
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A few photos from Helen Perris’ show
Some photos from Helen’s show at Beyond Q. Will loved it and has decided that Helen is now his favourite musician Not sure who the last two are, but they seem to be enjoying that milkshake…
View ArticleXMLGuy: a fluent XML builder for .NET
One of my (yet to be released) side projects has stalled in part because working with XML in .NET is annoying, and I find it hard to be motivated to do annoying things in my downtime. DynamicBuilder is...
View ArticleFunctional Javascript for OO developers, Part 1
Functional Javascript for OO developers, Part 1 Javascript can be a weird thing to a traditional OO developer. For small tasks it’s easy enough to pick up and hack around with, with it’s familiar...
View ArticleMVC is only part of the picture
There’s been a lot of discussion in the Rails community and on Hacker News over the last couple of weeks about where business logic belongs in Rails in particular, and MVC in general. There seem to be...
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Functional Javascript for OO developers, Part 2
In part 1 I breifly introduced functional language concepts from the point of view of a traditional OO developer. In this post we’ll apply some of those concepts to a real world problem, which we’ll...
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Remapping Android Buttons
My Huawei 8150 has come back to me again, after filling in as a spare phone for my wife (she wasn’t as impressed with it as I am). One of the not-so-great things about it is the 3 massive physical...
View ArticleMusic I wish I’d found earlier
Over the last couple of years, especially since subscribing to Rdio, I’ve been falling in love with music that’s been around for ages, but that I somehow had missed. This is playlist of “old” music...
View ArticleMisconceptions about Stoicism
Stoicism is a somewhat familiar idea to most people. It’s usually characterized as a from of emotional dishonesty, where you put on a brave face, or further to the extreme, deny yourself the ability to...
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