Across every organisation I’ve worked in, documentation is either missing or, once written, out of date. So, we’ve stopped treating it as something people maintain and made agents regenerate it on every code change.

The elderflowers are out - time for elderflower champagne. I wrote about this in the JIC Student Newsletter years ago, and it’s been on my wish list since then to get round to making (since 2019?).

Strava proudly told me today I had achieved a 70-week activity streak; meaning I’ve recorded something every calendar week back to January 2025.

How a tiny per-customer encoding turns our weekly basket analysis into real-time personalised recommendations - and now also powers voucher targeting.

How we are changing BI at Jollyes Pets on a $10/month VM

Ran the TTP Cambridge Half Marathon today in support of the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, which raises funds and awards grants to local charities tackling inequality and disadvantage across the county.

Combining LLMs with traditional AI to solve new problems in minutes for pennies

Five and a half years after the first month of 5k a day, I went again - this time from mid-June through to the end of August. Two and a half months of (nearly) daily 5k+, with at least a monthly 10k thrown in too.

This blog was written by Kim Ngan Luu Hoang for UKBC and is reproduced here.

Rumour has it that children are no longer taught “i before e, excpet after c (unless it rhymes with bee!)” at school anymore, because it is more often wrong than right. I wondered whether this was only obscure words, or was true for all words - or even true at all?

Answer to the Riddler Express (03/07)

I remember as a child, that petrol was always under £1/litre. During the current pandemic, it hit the news that petrol, once again, was nearing the £1/litre mark. It made me wonder, how expensive is petrol today?

This blog was written by me for JIC Communications and is reproduced here.

From Dave Moran comes a question we’ve all faced at some point when waiting in line for a haircut:

Day 31. A month ago I couldn’t run; today I closed out January on the beach on Friday evening to celebrate.

Three weeks in, past the 100 km mark, and I’ve hurt my knee - not by running though but by walking down stairs.

With friends leaving Facebook everyday, I thought it was high time I archived my Facebook data. Facebook now allows you to download all of the data you’ve provided to them - photos, likes, posts, contacts and more - but they do not give you an option to download your tagged photos from friends.

I can’t run. I’ve never been a runner and thought I never would be - until this New Year’s.

Afer a roaring success, or rather learning experience of perry and mead, it is time for more homebrew.

After a summer of a pear a day, there was still several kilos of pears left on my tree. What better to attempt than homemade perry?