Hello World
Sep 13, 2018
Greetings humans.
Open plan offices are basically terrible in every way
Dec 15, 2015
There’s a growing consensus in the scientific literature that open plan offices damage the mental and physical health of employees, destroy their morale and generally make their work lives less pleasant. Let us first look at some studies.
Evans and Johnson, 2000:
Forty female clerical workers were randomly assigned to a control condition or to 3-hr exposure to low-intensity noise designed to simulate typical open-office noise levels. The simulated open-office noise elevated workers’ urinary epinephrine levels, but not their norepinephrine or cortisol levels, and it produced behavioral aftereffects (fewer attempts at unsolvable puzzles) indicative of motivational deficits.
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Why primary identity documents matter (and why the DVLA is incompetent at it)
Aug 05, 2015
I’ve been grumbling on Twitter about the DVLA.
A long time ago, I applied for and received a provisional driving license with the intention to learn to drive. That provisional driving license expired (I had other things to do besides take driving lessons), so I renewed it recently.
The license I had included a number of errors. Firstly, it had the wrong date of birth and it also had the wrong address.
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On showing URLs and why security and usability will always have a rocky relationship
May 04, 2014
Jeremy and Jake are debating the merits of Chrome’s plan to hide away the path segment of the URL.
I have only a few things to say:
If Firefox starts hiding the path of the URL I’m looking at, I’ll find whatever extension, plugin, haxie or user script I need to make it stop. It’s bad enough that it hides the protocol from me. I want to see what page I’m on.
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How to quit vim's easy mode (vim -y)
May 20, 2009
You think quitting normal mode is hard to leave?
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