iTerm2 URL matching is pretty neat
Mar 20, 2021
For many years, other developers told me about iTerm2 and I ignored them. I really shouldn’t have. The stock macOS Terminal was fine, I thought. What a mistake.
There’s lots to love about iTerm2, including the ability to script it in Python. But a really amazing quick win is the support for Triggers. Triggers allow you to set a regular expression that gets acted on every time they appear in the terminal.
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Too sarcastic for the Twitter joke police: an adventure in automated moderation
Feb 18, 2021
In which computers built by Silicon Valley-funded companies fail to get British humour.
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Never trust a Time Machine made by a computer company
Dec 31, 2020
In which Apple makes me very, very weary.
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Using AST parsing for deriving IAM rules
May 19, 2020
With enough metaprogramming, security can be fun.
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That's not what the law says: the coronavirus regulations
Apr 08, 2020
If you want a rule of law, maybe read the law?
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Hart contracts, not smart contracts
Feb 06, 2020
Why a philosophical argument shows the folly of Smart Contracts
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The NHS Data Commandments and the memory hole
Feb 04, 2020
Back in 2018, the British government published a document on the World Wide Web. This happens fairly often. In fact, they have a whole publishing platform for this. I started writing a post critiquing this document, as I felt it was a poorly considered idea. Before I got around to publishing it, the document disappeared from the Internet. Life went on. I was busy, and there are always many more blog post drafts that don’t ever get written or published.
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Essential reading on the MIT Media Lab
Sep 08, 2019
A peek inside the embattled Media Lab.
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Making QR codes with cloud functions
Jun 07, 2019
How to use Google's Cloud Functions to... cope with Google's deprecation of their own APIs.
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