In my late teens I thought giving up smoking would be straightforward: Just stop shoving cigarettes in your face. This, it turns out, is actually the hard part.

Yeah I am.

“Play dead”.

Had an old friend and his sprog staying with me. They were playing a word game where you must remove one letter from a book title to change the meaning. I turned to my bookcases for inspiration and could only see The Count of Monte Cristo.

i believe, for the moment at least, i'm done on twitter. too many straws for this camels back. i am more routinely on the popular picture sharing site where you an expect pictures of vespas, dogs, and dogs on vespas. and i can be found on the obvious federated twitter replacement

Periodic reminder that I’m not here any more. I’m mostly on Insta and somewhat on Mastodon. Currently I’m mostly posting about my dog’s knee surgery.

i leave my current job at the end of january after ten years. i'm currently looking for a new role. do shout if you need a me. i'm suitable for a variety of positions around tech leadership, process design, software and infrastructural architecture, aws solutions, devops, and dev