bloggingVil du ha' noget på dansk?Den her er mere som en prøve-historie, bare så det kan ses, at den her blog virker med både engelske og danske historier. Ghost 2.x har plads til kun ét sprog for
denmark, transport, architectureCopenhagen Metro: M3 "Cityringen"I love exploring stations. I've visited all 270 stations on the London Underground network. So when a whole new metro line opened here in my home city, I knew I had to explore. Let's see what it's like, shall we?
denmarkIs this thing still on? It is now!So ... it's been a full six months since the last post, and I'll be honest: one of the main reasons it's been so long is that the scripts I was using to update
denmarkOn the cuspMy current accommodation continues not to be great, but I'm not done yet: I'm fighting back, and I think I'm winning. Plus, I've been meeting more cool new people!
denmarkMe, Denmark, and The Lying BrainweaselsWhen I moved to Denmark, and chose a place to live, I chose poorly. Then I compounded the error. And then, the Lying Brainweasels threatened my job.
bbcA Decade with Auntie BeebRecently, I left the BBC, after 11 years there. A few personal thoughts on what I experienced there: the bad, the ugly, and the good.
denmark, movingI moved to Denmark!2017: I'm married, I hardly ever leave the UK, I only speak English 2019: I'm single, I live in Denmark, and I'm not bad at Danish Umm... what happened?
humour, transgenderGood moral values1 April 2018: Because of the good moral values firmly held by the newspaper editors of this great country, there will not be any transphobic, racist, ableist, misogynist propaganda in the Sunday papers today.
technology, rubyrspec and exceptionsA surprising way in which an exception doesn't always cause a test to fail. Or indeed have run at all...
diversityThoughts on the National LGBT surveyFrom 23rd July 2017 to 15th October 2017, the UK's National LGBT survey is open, “to understand the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people living in the UK”.
technologyFirefox add-ons, 15 years onAfter 15 years of using Firefox, and with the approaching release of the extension-breaking Firefox 57, I reflect on which extensions I use, which I can do without, and how things are moving on.
diversityOn prejudiceWhere homogeneity thrives, ignorance blooms; and where ignorance leads, prejudice follows.
advertisingAdvertising EscalationTrivago's omnipresent and unwavering advertising on the London Underground is creepy as hell. It's literally making me consider making eye contact with another passenger, instead of looking at ads. Desperate times.
technologyNot helpful, “aws s3 sync”The aws s3 sync "--metadata-directive" option: what does it do? Does it work? AWS themselves aren't clear on the matter...
technologyThe AWS S3 Inventory Service: don't end the destination prefix with “/”If you end the destination prefix with "/", then you'll end up with an unusable manifest.
transgenderReflections: before and after my first electrolysisWhen I first started talking to friends about my gender identity, and exploring what was possible, what I could do, what seemed to be impossible, one of the first things I did was
transgenderMission: Get on with your everyday lifeAs a trans woman, I sometimes encounter prejudice and intolerance as I try to go about my life, just like almost all other trans people. But why?Cis (non-trans) people sometimes think that
rantyWhat do you think of this? ANSWER ME!I f you're creating a survey, it's very tempting to make the responses mandatory, to make sure people fill it in, and to make the analysis easier. But it's actually almost always a terrible idea.
technologySQL report funThis is just a little anecdote. Don't expect it to be deep or meaningful. I don't know, maybe there's something in here about feedback loops or focussing development effort in the right place, whatever.
technologySave money and be tidy with s3-upload-cleanerAmazon Web Services (AWS) S3 is a popular, highly-scalable object storage service. It's used by a lot of big companies, including the one I work for. But it's very easy gradually to accumulate billable "invisible" storage.
technologyCisco and their IPv6 DNScisco.com is now resolvable over IPv6. But something is still amiss..
diversity, technologyDiversity at QCon London 2015Diversity in the technology sector remains a challenge, with much work to do. How did QCon London 2015 measure up?
advertisingOh woe is me: The advertising industry reflects on itselfTimes are hard for the ad industry, they say. What solutions might they propose?
technologyopenssl and the default cert fileopenssl s_client appeared to be claiming that a certificate was expired, when it wasn't.
technology, presentationsWhy I gave the AWS keynotes a missThe keynote presenters at AWS re:Invent need to focus more on the audience, and less on big launches.
technologyManaging AWS CloudFormation templates using stack-fetcherAt the AWSUKUG meetup in September I talked about Video Factory, and a tool we've created for managing stack templates.
technologyPersonal highlights from the AWS Enterprise SummitYesterday I attended the AWS Enterprise Summit in London — I've chosen my highlights, and reflected on the summit as a whole.
technology, diversityAmazon Web Services fails at diversityThe Amazon Web Services Enterprise Summit yesterday wasn’t exactly a shining beacon of diversity.
