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205: Mechanical pencils
January 3, 2020
Hello. I’ve become mildly obsessed with mechanical pencils in the past few weeks. There’s something deeply satisfying about fiddling with their small,...
204: Podcast special
November 15, 2019
Hello. A colleague recently asked me for some podcast recommendations. I knew he liked Revisionist History and I was surprised he’d never heard of 99%...
203: Small steps
November 7, 2019
Hello. This is either a day early or a few weeks late. I took a short holiday to the south coast (In Dorset. I’d recommend it to anyone.) and then I felt a...
202: Area 51
September 27, 2019
Hello. Parliament streamed on Twitch I won't talk a lot about politics here (I'm still recovering from a stress headache which I think I gave myself from...
201: Move ahead
September 20, 2019
Hello. Coda. ’A doc as powerful as an app’ I really like Coda for building spreadsheet-like things in docs. Good for playing around with simple date and...
200: Chicken jackets
September 13, 2019
Hello. Quite a lot has changed since Roo’s Letter #199 (imagine reaching #199 and leaving it there!). In the last one, we were waiting for Article 50 to be...
199: Article 50
June 24, 2016
Hello. Has article 50 been invoked? (I made a thing) http://hasarticle50beeninvoked.uk Agile in the public sector (I gave a talk)...
198: Bendy bike
April 29, 2016
Hello. I've been kitting out a new office recently, and (carefully) buying useful things. Here are my equipping-an-office recommendations: Chairs: Okamura...
197: Memory game
April 8, 2016
Hello. The talented Dan Hough has created a really addictive Emoji based memory game. I’m totally hooked. https://moji.zone/ He put it up on Product Hunt...
196: Vague understanding
January 29, 2016
Hello. Zach Holman on startup interviewing “Every single product I’ve built in my professional career has not had a correct answer. It’s more akin to carving...
195: Trump diet
January 15, 2016
Hello. How Dan Catt makes podcasts http://revdancatt.com/2016/01/08/how_i_make_podcasts/ Magic Mirror for Raspberry Pi...
194: Total eclipse
December 19, 2015
Hello. A rare Saturday night newsletter this week. Blame it on Christmas holidays. Hope you are already feeling festive. Some lovely links for you......
193: Rock stars
December 11, 2015
Hello. Lego combination safe “A working combination safe built out of LEGO bricks” youtube.com/watch?v=H8z0f7kPQEw via @cackhanded Adele impersonates herself...
192: Proper agile
November 27, 2015
Hello. Reconfigure My friend Ian Hughes has written a sci fi book. It’s free until Monday. amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01720X7F0 These whiteboard pens are great...
191: Paint drying
November 20, 2015
Hello. Chipmunks songs from the 1980s sound pretty amazing when you slow them down soundcloud.com/alvin-thechipmunkson16sp/sets/sludgefest Daedelus compares...
190: Awkward pause
October 30, 2015
Hello. Nat B and Dan W have started a new studio exploring the future through research and prototyping http://buckleywilliams.com/...
189: Serious matter
September 25, 2015
Hello. Freedom of Information request to Cabinet Office “Obviously this is a very serious matter. ... What budget has the government setting aside for this...
188: Nice bike
September 18, 2015
Hello. I should have mentioned this ages ago, but I changed jobs recently. Here’s what I’m doing now. www.livestax.com It’s my wife’s birthday in a couple of...
187: Tribal bureaucrats
August 28, 2015
Hello. Githug “a practical way of learning git. It has a series of levels, each requiring you to use git commands to arrive at a correct answer”...
186: Sliding scale
July 31, 2015
Hello. Matt Gray: Receiving Weather Satellite Images for £8 mattg.co.uk/words/noaa_sdr A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-...
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