Once upon a time I was paid to write code in exchange for coins, and I wasn't bad at it.

Then I got paid to lead and manage people who write code in exchange for coins, and it turned out that I wasn't bad at that either.

These days I am paid to lead and manage people who lead and manage people who write code in exchange for coins, so I guess that:

1. I'm pretty good at tech and people,
2. My job is becoming more and more fractal, and
3. I only really write code for myself these days

Given that I'm attempting to start writing stuff / blogging again, I thought I would share a couple of the daft personal projects that I have put together in recent years.

It's been 11 years since I last wrote about a potential mid-life crisis and career change, and as I'm now a mere month away from my 50th birthday it seemed like a good topic to revisit!

I have been thinking a lot about AI recently — probably because every other post on LinkedIn is some kind of regurgitated AI think-piece, and every unsolicited email at work seems to revolve around AI strategy — and what it means for our current working practices.

Today I (probably) invented a new technology term: Homepathic estimation

I wanted a clock for my office, and couldn't decide what I wanted, so I opted to make a slightly unusual one with a Raspberry Pi and an e-ink screen.

It sometimes feels like plain old reality is getting a bit passé, with a myriad of new technologies promising to open up new worlds of possibilities, but what does it all mean and how does it all work here in the real world?

There has been a lot of chatter about how voice interfaces like Amazon Alexa or Google Home are going to “kill brands".

Hi, my name is Andy and I am a technologist. I’ve been monkeying about on the web since the mid 90s in one form or another, and I seem to have somehow turned some initial tinkering with very early HTML [^1] whilst avoiding my University coursework into a subsequent career in the London digital industry.

There's an awful lot of buzz at the moment about chatbots, conversational interfaces, and digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa - it seems like there is a steady march of AI into our lives, but is that a good thing?

For marketers and advertisers it may appear to be he beginnings of a brave new world of opportunities to deliver messages to consumers in new and "innovative" ways, but that is a fundamentally naive approach.

In the rush to be part of this brave new world it is this very simple question that is overlooked - "what is the value exchange"?

It seems like everyone is talking about AI at the moment, from your humble correspondent to Barack Obama