Published inLine of Succession·May 7Member-onlyWhere does royal power come from?Yesterday’s coronation showed Britain doing what Britain does best — putting on the most gloriously bonkers ceremony the world has seen for decades. …Coronation6 min readCoronation6 min read
Dec 11, 2022Member-only5 Reasons Why Using AI to Generate Blog Posts Can Destroy Your SEOUsing artificial intelligence (AI) to generate blog posts can be bad for search engine optimization (SEO) for several reasons. First and foremost, AI-generated content is often low quality and lacks the depth and substance that search engines look for when ranking content. Because AI algorithms are not capable of understanding…Tech2 min readTech2 min read
Oct 18, 2022Containers for CoverageI’ve been building Docker containers again. And I think you’ll find this one a little more useful than the Perlanet one I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Several years ago I got into Travis CI and set up lots of my GitHub repos so they automatically ran the…Container2 min readContainer2 min read
Oct 10, 2022Not that PR, thanksIt’s October. And that means that Hacktoberfest has started. If you can get four pull requests accepted on other people’s code repositories during October then you can win a t-shirt. In many ways, I think it’s a great idea. It encourages people to get involved in open source software. But…Github2 min readGithub2 min read
Oct 6, 2022Building a Perlanet ContainerI’m a dinosaur who still believes that web feeds are a pretty neat idea. …Container3 min readContainer3 min read
Jul 15, 2022Entrepreneurship Won’t Be the Cool Thing to Do in 5 Years1.2K55Nick NolanNick is talking about entrepreneurs who leave a 9-5 job and replace it with something that…Nick is talking about entrepreneurs who leave a 9-5 job and replace it with something that incorporates all the worst bits of corporate culture - investors, a constant drive for growth and, as a result, more stress than working the 9-5. It doesn't need to be like that. There's a…1 min read1 min read
May 2, 2022Should Children be Polite While Using Smart Speakers?‘Okay Google. Where is Antarctica?” Children can now get answers to all their questions using smart speakers and digital voice assistants. A few years ago, children would run to their parents or grandparents to answer their questions. …Amazon Echo4 min readAmazon Echo4 min read
Published inLine of Succession·Feb 7, 2022Seventy Years of ChangeHer Majesty has, of course, seen changes in many areas of society in the seventy years of her reign. But here, we’re most interested in the line of succession. So we thought it would be interesting to look at the line of succession on the day that she took the…19525 min read19525 min read
Jan 9, 20222021 in GigsA little later than usual, here’s my review of the gigs I saw last year. In 2020, I saw four gigs. In 2021, I almost doubled that to seven. Obviously, we spent a lot of the year with most music venues closed, so those few gigs I saw were all…20213 min read20213 min read
Published inLine of Succession·Dec 22, 2021How Charles was very nearly not a princeThere’s been a lot of talk over the last year or so about why the children of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex don’t have titles. But did you know that Prince Charles was very nearly not born a prince? …Hrh4 min readHrh4 min read