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Discovering A Simple Focal Elegia Mod

On August 26, 2022 By Aiden In sound

TL;DR Removing 4 of the 6 screws under the pads and loosening the clamping pressure on the speaker inside improved a range of issues I had with the Focal Elegia (some of my own making) …

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Vanilla JS drag handles for drag-and-drop

On August 18, 2022 By Aiden In software development

Imagine you have a form inside a draggable element in your application. We could simply set the draggable="true" attribute on the outer most element and then and it is draggable. But making a DOM element …

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Is your informal “coffee shop” interview process unethical?

On July 29, 2021 By Aiden In engineering management, featured, interviewing

TL;DR — I feel that informal job interviews (in a cafe, pub, coffee shop, park, …) can increase the chances that the personal biases of the interviewer(s) will impact the outcome and introduce unethical and …

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Django’s “Sites” app initial data migration

On July 24, 2021 By Aiden In software development

SITE_ID in Django (3.1/3.2) takes a data migration to setup correctly. The documentation doesn’t tell you that you need to create a new site rather than modify the existing default.

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Agile Estimation Isn’t All Numbers

On July 21, 2021 By Aiden In engineering management, featured, software development

Regardless of what method you use or what “Agile” methodology or implementation you subscribe to … you probably estimate tasks as a team in some way. Sometimes, particuarly if things are dragging on a bit, …

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A Question Answered: From Junior to Principal

On July 20, 2021 By Aiden In engineering management, featured, interviewing, software development

I interview a lot of software engineers at various points in their career; everything from junior developers fresh from University through to Principal Engineers who are masters of their craft. One of the questions I …

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Sennheiser CX400 BT Review

On April 18, 2021 By Aiden In sound

TLDR: Sounded like shit out of the box, but you can EQ them to something really lovely if you can get the Sennheiser app to connect to them. At £99 they are a proper bargain. …

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‘Boring’ Projects – Part One: What is boring?

On October 2, 2020 By Aiden In engineering management, software development

In these posts, I’m hoping to deal with the topic of ‘boring’ projects. I’ll look at what boring means (to me at least) and how the negative stigma of ‘boring’ projects is undeserved in many ways.

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My love letter to DFINITY and their “Internet Computer”

On August 27, 2020 By Aiden In software development

I’m not excited often by programming developments but a simple idea and a powerful narrative can create change. I hope they gain traction.

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Why make a professional “vanity” site?

On August 14, 2020 By Aiden In meta

… A public persona will only ever be a small subset of who someone is; but it is still who they are. …

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