2026

The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer 11 January 2026

2025

Never split the difference 21 December 2025
People, process, technology, business 03 August 2025
Making reference calls 21 June 2025
AI in SaaS: Blessing or Bandwagon? 12 April 2025
Playing to win 19 January 2025

2024

CTO reflections on my first year at Kooth 13 December 2024
Panel: AI in SaaS: Blessing or Bandwagon? 15 September 2024
Strategy for Directors: Tying it together 10 July 2024
Strategy for Directors: Models 08 July 2024
Refactoring podcast: Good tech strategy bad tech strategy 23 June 2024
Managing Managers podcast: Splitting time and tech strategy 16 May 2024
1-measure-3-1 29 April 2024
Learning from a strategy project 14 January 2024

2023

Scaling People 26 November 2023
Analysing, Deciding Doing: How to develop and execute an effective strategy 10 September 2023
Strategic technology leadership: video 03 September 2023
Strategic technology leadership: fireside chat 11 July 2023
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 26 June 2023
Software Architecture Hour with Neal Ford 20 May 2023

2022

What next for No next Next? 12 December 2022
Working together on tech strategy 09 December 2022
Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks 16 July 2022
Being a Principal Engineer in Customer Products at the FT 27 June 2022
The difficult teenage years: setting your tech strategy after the launch 11 June 2022
No Next Next: Fighting Entropy in Your Microservices Architecture 08 April 2022
Encouraging meeting participation with a check-in 22 March 2022
The good, the bad and the tech strategy 16 February 2022

2021

Why didn't Clojure work concurrently in Vagrant? 31 December 2021
Working on the most important things as a technical leadership team 28 September 2021
Threat modelling cards 15 September 2021
Setting up a Ubiquiti network 21 June 2021
Finance for non-finance directors: Part 3 12 March 2021
Finance for non-finance directors: Part 2 10 March 2021
Finance for non-finance directors: Part 1 08 March 2021
Creating, defining and refining an effective tech strategy 26 February 2021
Some notes on inclusive leadership 06 January 2021

2020

How Durable Teams Take You Further, Faster 10 December 2020
Turn the Ship Around! 26 November 2020
How to sell 01 October 2020
Meeting everyone on a new team 17 September 2020
The Multiple Faces of Technical Leadership 08 July 2020
Unlocking value with durable teams 29 June 2020
Why and how to do annual performance reviews 23 June 2020
A 'Hello World' mod-wsgi application 06 June 2020
The difficult teenage years at Tech Nottingham 13 May 2020
Social distancing quiz 29 March 2020

2019

Slack 31 December 2019
The Effective Executive 30 December 2019
Triggers 24 December 2019
What got you here won't get you there 22 December 2019
No next Next 10 September 2019
The difficult teenage years: Setting tech strategy after a launch 02 September 2019
After the launch: the difficult teenage years 10 August 2019
Russell Davies's strategy advice 08 July 2019
How do you delegate to a group of people? 21 June 2019
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy 17 May 2019
Finance for non-accountants 23 April 2019
How to make the most out of meetings with vendors 22 March 2019
Finding the next level tech job 16 January 2019

2018

What I learned in six years at GDS 08 December 2018
How to interview job applicants fairly 22 November 2018
High output management 05 November 2018
Moving SPA to HTTPS 03 August 2018
Replacing the SPA CMS 20 July 2018
Understanding my strengths using a Johari window 02 June 2018
Cleaning up SPA for GDPR 20 May 2018
How coding in the open can help you release faster 29 April 2018
Deploying to shared hosting with Travis 13 March 2018
Resources for coding in the open 02 March 2018
How to open up closed code 19 February 2018

2017

A year in the life of an Open Source Lead 08 December 2017
Coding in the open in government: Turing Fest talk 30 November 2017
Sign up to my new mailing list! 05 November 2017
An awk command I always forget 13 October 2017
Removing MediaWiki from SPA: Cool URIs don't change 01 October 2017
Removing MediaWiki from SPA: Changes to the site 01 October 2017
Don’t be afraid to code in the open: here’s how to do it securely 27 September 2017
The benefits of coding in the open 04 September 2017
Break into public speaking 23 August 2017
Cross government meetup on Open Source and Security 08 August 2017
Join the SPA organising committee 13 June 2017
Writing a business case 01 March 2017
Come to the cross-government Open Source meetup 25 January 2017

2016

Next steps for Open Source in government 15 December 2016
I am now Open Source Lead 18 November 2016
How to blog 16 September 2016
Making my site look better on small screens 04 July 2016
Useful questions for one-to-ones 30 March 2016
Code sharing in large organisations 24 March 2016

2015

Choosing Cloud Foundry for the Government Platform as a Service 17 December 2015
Video of Operations: a developer's guide 27 November 2015
Slides and links from Operations: a developer's guide 07 November 2015
A PaaS for Government 29 October 2015
Looking at open source PaaS technologies 27 October 2015
Building a platform to host digital services 08 September 2015
A career path for technologists at GDS 24 July 2015
Tips on writing a technical CV 19 July 2015
How to raise a good pull request 21 April 2015
Staying technical 29 March 2015
What is a technical architect? 01 March 2015

2014

How we moved vCloud Tools from Coding in the Open to Open Source 19 December 2014
How do I get more women to speak at my conference? 08 December 2014
Build Quality In 03 September 2014
Some thoughts on preparing an Ignite talk 07 July 2014
How I keep alphagov/fog updated... 16 June 2014
Using Git to refactor vCloud Tools into separate gems 04 June 2014
Sketchnoting 17 May 2014
Building tools to provision our machines 07 May 2014
Running OSS projects 03 April 2014
Are you thinking of speaking at a conference? 09 March 2014

2013

Applying for a job at GDS 24 December 2013
How Anonymous Submissions Affected Gender Balance at our Conference 17 November 2013
Creating a Puppet module 09 September 2013
Some Regex in the form of a Picture! 10 August 2013
Where Do I Start? 06 July 2013
Roof Bug-fixing 21 May 2013
Upgrading to 12.04... 06 May 2013
Partitioning! 24 April 2013
Roof Hacking 24 March 2013
How to Estimate 21 January 2013

2012

Testing the redirections 10 December 2012
Learning the perls 20 November 2012
Learning More About D3 19 July 2012
CAP again – or should that be PACELC? 15 July 2012
The CAP Theorem and MongoDB 29 April 2012
What Should Your Work Log Tell You? 15 April 2012
Plan of Action 20 February 2012
Would Have Been Useful to Know at My First Game Jam 14 February 2012
JavaScript Talk Takes Shape 21 January 2012

2011

Preparation Begins for the JavaScript Talk... 18 December 2011
JavaScript Visualisations Proposal 30 November 2011
My Continuing Struggles with Linux 17 October 2011
Sorl-thumbnail Comes Back to Bite Me 12 September 2011
How to Write Efficient CSS – Evaluation of CSS 29 August 2011
How to Write Efficient CSS – Basic CSS 06 August 2011
A Voyage of Discovery – Upgrading Firefox Part 2 27 July 2011
Upgrading Firefox – part 1... 20 July 2011
What I have learned about folder structure today 22 April 2011