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2025
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April 1, 2025summary
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March 26, 2025Hindsight is always 20/20
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March 1, 2025Doing some coding for a change.
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February 1, 2025Lots of books basically
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January 18, 2025beep boop
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January 1, 2025Unwrapping a year of change
2024
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December 1, 2024Tired
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November 1, 2024Spooky
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October 31, 2024Diggy diggy soul
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October 1, 2024I do remember the twenty-first night of September
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September 1, 2024All In
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August 1, 2024On Holiday!
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July 1, 2024Hello summer, aaaaand it's gone
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June 1, 2024Got Shown Who's Boss
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May 27, 2024Using Lambdas to prevent cheating
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May 19, 2024Vue's nice
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May 5, 2024A Statement PPV.
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May 1, 2024That There London
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April 1, 2024Won together
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March 30, 2024💋 LustLust for... Agile?
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March 29, 2024Crowbars at the ready
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March 25, 2024This one was a bit of a mind-bender
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March 15, 2024Building the infrastructure for a cloud-native application
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March 14, 2024Wow!
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March 1, 2024All change
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February 1, 2024Wot I've gone and dun
2023
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December 12, 2023Dig a little deeper.
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December 4, 2023FUNctional
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October 31, 2023Hogyween haunts a new house
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September 20, 2023Does Agile have an image problem?
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August 17, 2023🦠 PlagueBleurgh
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July 22, 2023Don't go chasing waterfalls
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July 11, 2023You can run a sprint or you can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon - Ryan Holmes
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July 4, 2023Hey! Listen!
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July 3, 2023Drop, Defer, Delegate, Do - in that order
2022
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December 24, 2022Once more round the sun
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October 31, 2022Tonight, we're summoned for a divine cause
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July 17, 2022Project Management - what is it good for?
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May 8, 2022Today is March 799th, 2020
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April 5, 2022Hype or not hype?
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March 31, 2022If I'm gonna catch up, first I gotta 'fess up
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March 4, 2022Tips and tricks to avoid the common snapshot pitfalls
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February 1, 2022Choose Your Own Adventure, through my brain
2021
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October 31, 2021Murder in the Pumpkin Patch tonight
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July 2, 2021I try my hand at writing the best Gherkin I can
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April 9, 2021I'm on Youtube now
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April 2, 2021What makes a good contract test?
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March 13, 2021Performing provider verification locally against a remote Pact Broker
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March 12, 2021GitLab CI/CD, using Pact Broker to identify whether it's safe to deploy
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March 5, 2021Setting up an API consumer and provider, and contract testing them
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January 27, 2021You probably don't need traffic light reporting. But if you do, use it properly
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January 16, 2021Delivery with water... slides
2020
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December 26, 2020Oh, the complexities concealed behind that word
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December 24, 2020Well, that was indeed a year
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December 3, 2020When we are told something is a requirement, it's very often... not
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October 31, 2020Toil and Trouble
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October 22, 2020Software is in the business of improving lives, not shipping sausages from a production line.
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October 21, 2020The team don't like it / Stuffing the Backlog, stuffing the Backlog
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October 20, 2020More often than you think, with good reasons
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August 25, 2020Going back to school, virtually
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August 22, 2020Why telling testers to stay in their lane harms your team's ability to deliver work
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August 17, 2020Why we shouldn't be cramming sprints to capacity. We should be focusing on getting stuff done.
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August 14, 2020In which I ramble about the surprising depth to some old UK gameshows
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July 1, 2020Focus today on the problems you have today. Focus tomorrow on the problems you may have tomorrow.
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May 22, 2020Calling time on cramming people into open-plan offices, reorganising our work-life balance and making offices spaces for meaningful inter-personal interactions.
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May 11, 2020A virtual conference in times of turmoil.
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May 6, 2020In which I change jobs during a pandemic.
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February 10, 2020Sprints need a purpose to, well, sprint towards. Otherwise, a sprint risks becoming a mini-waterfall.
2019
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December 5, 2019ArchUnit asserts architectural constraints at the unit-test level, giving developers guiderails on good practice with fast feedback.
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October 31, 2019The first Hogyween Yard Haunt
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September 23, 2019Agile is not an off-the-shelf product that can be dropped into an organisation. It's a learning journey with a willingness to embrace change.
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April 5, 2019DevOps and Continuous Delivery learnings from the first Build IT Right event.
2018
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September 29, 2018
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August 18, 2018
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August 16, 2018
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July 10, 2018
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April 24, 2018
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January 16, 2018
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January 2, 2018
2017
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November 15, 2017
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August 26, 2017
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August 23, 2017
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July 23, 2017
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July 9, 2017
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June 12, 2017
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April 12, 2017
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April 11, 2017
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March 24, 2017
2016
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November 4, 2016
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June 26, 2016
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June 11, 2016
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June 5, 2016
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April 5, 2016
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March 31, 2016
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March 16, 2016
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March 15, 2016
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March 5, 2016
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February 23, 2016
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January 16, 2016
2015
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December 13, 2015
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November 21, 2015
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October 27, 2015
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May 10, 2015
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April 27, 2015
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January 19, 2015
2014
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October 15, 2014
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September 10, 2014
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August 4, 2014
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July 22, 2014
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July 19, 2014
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July 16, 2014
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June 16, 2014
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June 8, 2014🎲 E3 2014
2013
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December 5, 2013
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December 4, 2013
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October 18, 2013
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September 16, 2013
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August 24, 2013
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June 26, 2013
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June 17, 2013
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June 16, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 2, 2013
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April 18, 2013
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February 4, 2013
2012
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December 21, 2012
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November 3, 2012
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October 15, 2012
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September 17, 2012
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September 10, 2012
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September 2, 2012
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August 2, 2012🏃 Running
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March 13, 2012
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February 27, 2012
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February 21, 2012
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February 21, 2012