Just left Smedley Group Advanced Technology after three years and joined Insignis Cash in London as a backend engineer on the payments team. Motorsport to payments: an unfamiliar domain, deliberately. The thing I've argued for in most of what I write, that the discipline matters more than the domain, is now something I get to test properly.
Finished a BSc in Computer Science at UEA this summer, with a dissertation on agile and lean methodologies for deploying software in operational start-up contexts: what actually works, what doesn't, and where the conventional wisdom breaks down. Four of the essays in the archive come out of it.
August was the busiest month here on record. Two client sites went live, New Vision Packaging and Corby United, built to opposite architectures on the same piece of evidence. LapDelta shipped too.
Reading Seneca's On the Shortness of Life alongside Maxims and Reflections. Only the first of those is stoic; I just like reading in snippets.
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