⚠️This is a sensitive topic and I have tried to bridge the sensitivity of it with some gentle humour to make some of it more understandable to a wide audience. You are welcome to contact me directly if you feel that I have been inappropriate. In addition, nothing in this
I’ve lived in this world long enough that some of these ideas just feel obvious to me, but I’ve learned they often aren’t. In most workplaces I’ve been in, fluency in how these ideas connect between data, code and software - is surprisingly rare - even
Now, I suspect out of everything I write, this is potentially the most controversial opinion I have. Microsoft Teams is actually brilliant. Right. Let's try to explain this... The dark old ages I first started office jobs in environments where you'd have a VoIP phone and
Design is Dead? Agile is Dead? Linkedin is full of posts that: * espouse ways of working or models of working * say things like "a product manager must use these frameworks to be successful" * state "X is dead" and if you're lucky, why (agile, continuous
Rail fares in the UK are notoriously confusing, but the system’s oddities can also work in your favour. This post is a written version of my EMFcamp 2024 talk, where I explored the fare hacks that still exist thanks to rail privatisation’s quirks. This doesn't include
A little list of resources I use relatively frequently when communicating about technology or just trying to catch a train, grouped into a few themes. The world is complicated and programmers somehow have to make sense of it People, places, names... Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus SoftwareClassic essay about
Let's say you are a nurse, or doctor. You undergo training, either in classroom or on the job shadowing. You sign up to a professional organisation to say you are licensed to do nursing or medical care. If something goes wrong, and it's been found to
Last year, two of my longest standing friends got married. Only I now live on Madeira, and I needed to fly to the wedding. No problem. I was on my 18th or 20th or so flight with EasyJet that year by then, and I'd rinsed them on EasyJet
In 2024, on my mastodon feed, someone posted asking for more people to volunteer talks about train topics at a tech festival I hadn't heard of. I did some quick research and turns out there's a decent overlap between Monkigras attenders and EMFCamp, and Monkigras is
What is the role of UX Design in API design? Lots of designers find this difficult - as a lot of them came from a visual or industrial design background, it can be hard to engage with user interfaces that manifest non-visually, like data or APIs. In addition, developers often
I appreciate it's a bit odd for someone in their 40s to be talking about their childhood. But I'll have a go. One of my first set of enduring memories was a forbidden bedroom. I was likely 5 or 6. This was one of those "
Once again, a new blog format. I am Ashley Rolfmore, I basically need a home for things that are mainly text with some pics and diagrams that probably could live on github wiki pages but trying to share those to non-developers seems to scare people. In particular, my relatives or