It was a quiet Thursday afternoon, in fact I was on holiday in the UK, recharging the batteries before taking the kids to the swimming pool. In a moment of inspiration, I decided to write a blog post, create a brand new hacker news account (I'd always been a long…
A review of one of my favourite podcasts, My First Million. What works, what could be improved and what's some of the secret sauce that makes it so enjoyable.…
What happens when you turn off all of your Internet advertising? Apparently, nothing. This post explores how I came to the decision to turn off all ads, and what I found as a result.…
Have you ever fallen into a well? Me either. It would have made a great excuse as to why I haven't written a single blog post in seven years. I'm lowering the bar for myself. Writing should be escapism, expression, writing should be sun drenched mornings after your only coffee…
When I first started Total Car Check [https://totalcarcheck.co.uk/], I knew that data would play a large part in the success of the organisation. There has been a big push over the past few years from this government to try and release as much data as possible in…
Background What was the problem? We needed a phone app for our commercial application. Our web stack is built on ASP.net MVC and we use C# on the backend. Xamarin - Not right for us Naturally there has been alot of buzz around Xamarin, so I gave it a…
I've come to the conclusion that the word/phrase 'Start-up' is now totally without useful meaning. This has probably been true for a while, but I constantly see its use abused, conflated and inverted. Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company] defines it as: > Startup: a company, a partnership…
Over the past two years I've been standing on the shoulders of giants (read: stealing code/ hiding my sources) in order to create and launch my start-up (oh how I hate calling it a start-up). So, if you use .Net and you'd like my opinion on some of the best…