More Thoughts About Working From Home
Working from home is great, but there are hidden dangers. These are the lessons I learned. Read on for what you should do and avoid.
A Coder’s Errand
A Comic on Maths, Logic and Computer Science
Computer Science is deeply rooted in logic. Logicomix is a delightful graphic novel relating the struggle of mathematicians with those foundations.
What’s in an Name?
It’s been a bit over two years since I started Coder’s Errand. All this time, I’ve wondered how this name resonates in my reader’s minds. This is a good time to reveal something about the name of this blog, why I chose it and how it represents my vision and ethos for it. This project …
Home or Office Working?
The Remote Work Experiment Discoveries about Working From Home Why I Preferred Office Working Once again, I turn to write about the current coronavirus lockdown in the UK. One of its unexpected consequences was a widespread experiment about working from home. Even in IT, an industry that by its nature is well-suited to remote working, …
Discoveries About Working From Home
The Remote Work Experiment Discoveries about Working From Home Why I Preferred the Office The coronavirus pandemic has forced me, like many others, to work from home on a continuous base, without childcare support and for an indeterminate length of time. That has forced me to reevaluate long-held beliefs I had about working from home …
How to Keep Your Blog Alive
When you write a blog, and still work full-time, time is not easy to find. What strategies can you use to fight writer’s block and keep your blog alive?
Times of Rebirth
We are living through strange times. Hopefully, if you read this a few years from now, you won’t remember these days, but for our present selves, still going through the Coronavirus Pandemic, all we have been living is new, dazzling and frightening. It has been hard for me to write, and although my writer’s block …
A Musical Escapade
If you’re a software developer, or work in some intellectually demanding occupation, one that requires continued focus for a long time, and you don’t have the happy choice to work from your garden or even beach lounger, then I’m sure at some point you must have faced the problem that your environs are just too …
Be a Hero: Change Career
It’s the New Year, and many people around the world are now battling themselves to stay true to their New Year Resolutions. I don’t do NY Resolutions… not any more. In my case, and I believe it is the same for a lot of us, they are like a millstone around the neck, sometimes made …
The Buried Giant, or the Spirit of Coder’s Errand
I started the Coder’s Errand in 2018. Part of the reason I did so was that I needed change, I felt the urge to move forward in my career and explore things that were happening in the technological world outside my normal reach. But when searching for a theme, I found inspiration elsewhere. 2017 was …
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