As some of you may know, I've been volunteering with a charity called Code Your Future since 2018 (ish, I've actually forgotten when I…

I originally wrote this at work to explain the reasoning behind one of my pull requests. I decided not to add it to our internal…

So I like to listen to podcasts while at work. Nope, I don't find it distracting if it's specific podcasts. I like the background noise…

I wasn't really planning anything, but I noticed that my about was a bit out of date and I've been wanting to get Let's Encrypt installed…

TL;DR: I'm joining Overleaf. I'm sticking around in Portsmouth for a bit, but moving to London soonish™. Huge thanks to Radweb for the…

Recently at work we've switched over to using a SVG icon set on our Backbone project. This caused a strange bug where clicking directly on…

So it's that time of year: upgrading OSX and fixing all the Apache brokenness that inevitably follows. These are just some quick notes on…

Me and my dad have been watching F1 for about as long as I can remember. We've been to Goodwood's Festival of Speed event a couple of times…

WikiVLE is a Virtual Learning Environment that I built for my Web Client & Server coursework in Winter/Spring 2012 It's a VLE based around…

I haven't blogged in a while, which seems to be the way I start every post here... If you've visited my nameplate (alasdairsmith.org.uk…

I came across this interesting article on O'Reilly Radar yesterday about gov.uk, the new (beta-ish) upgrade to direct.gov.uk. It's mostly…

(x-ray delta one on Flickr) I'm cautiously optimistic about Michael Gove's reform of ICT to become more like Computer Science. It's…

The service promises to check, verify and critique content on every web site in the world. Using a system of browser plugins, URL shorteners…

Cross posted from my Kandersteg blog. For all of my photos, check it out. Ed.'s note: Posterous shut down on 30th April 2013, so this blog…

Cross-posted from my Kandersteg blog. Ed.'s note: Posterous shut down on 30th April 2013, so this blog was discontinued. I may try to revive…

(Image from xkcd.com) I wrote last month about making science into a open-source software project, which discusses the pros and cons of…

Ed's note: I got hired! See my update post. This post is intended as unashamed self promotion for my placement year in the computing…

(Image thanks to cudmore and Wikimedia) This post was inspired by this blog post which I came across yesterday, and the subsequent…

I was cleaning out some photos on my computer today, and I stumbled across some of my photos from my trip to Kenya way back in 2006. I went…

I had a good old moan about citations a couple of weeks back, about how I found all citation software completely useless. Today I found a…

So it's late at night and I'm still annoyed from earlier about referencing - you may have seen my tweets, which were less than courteous…

Cross-posted from kandersteg.posterous.com Here's the last couple photos that I've got from the summer. This is from my Overnight Climbing…

Cross-posted from kandersteg.posterous.com where I'll be blogging about my summer in Switzerland from now on: So I thought I'd write up…