Technical write-ups, tutorials, guides, and thoughts.
Ask ten developers to define "agent" and you'll get eleven different answers. I think I've finally found one I actually agree with, and it came from playing around with a brand new agent network called https://Blocks.ai from PubNub.
A "recruiter" offered me a role that looked written for me. Then came the paid "essential documents", a fake career advisor, three named bank accounts (2 with you Clear Junction and 1 with you Lead), four crypto wallets (one a textbook laundering layer), and a lot of me playing dumber than I am to see how far it could go.
Following up on 'And Then The Dog Barked', Richard Hall reveals the company behind his fabricated rejection document is ServiceNow. A secondary GDPR disclosure exposes missed deadlines, incomplete data handling, and internal chat logs that reveal a surface-level, biased review of his AI projects.
A deep data dive analyzing 18 months of job application outcomes—reconstructing 85+ applications via AI mail analysis—to reveal how ATS keyword filters, LinkedIn 'Quick Apply' black holes, and fabricated rejection reasons systematically discard tailored human effort.
Following up on 'The Dog That Didn't Bark', a GDPR Subject Access Request reveals how a hiring manager used Claude to fabricate a retrospective rejection document with falsified metadata to justify a candidate rejection after the fact.
An analytical look at ageism in modern hiring, AI-driven Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and why automated candidate feedback remains conspicuously absent when it is technically effortless to provide.
A satirical but deeply personal account of the modern hiring process, exposing broken ATS systems, unprepared interviewers, absent feedback, and the very real human cost of a recruitment machine that prioritises compliance over competence.
A personal account of nearly four decades living with type 1 diabetes, culminating in an honest assessment of the Omnipod 5 closed-loop insulin system — its remarkable capabilities and the one critical design flaw that Insulet must address.
When vanity metrics replace real insight, we aren't data-driven...we're data-distracted
This wasn’t meant to be an article. It started life as a LinkedIn post. But then I hit the character limit… so rather than start slashing at the prompt (which works), I just dumped the whole thing here. I've done my best to make it article-worthy without applying more effort than I had mentally budgeted for what was essentially a social media joke. So if this reads like a slightly under-engineered article which could have been a post...that’s because it is.
A chance encounter with a Twingate job ad led to discovering a powerful zero-config networking tool that solved remote app testing, cross-platform file sharing, and geo-tunnelling in an afternoon.
Google Location History is messy. 13 years of it across three fragmented accounts is even messier. Here is how I used Dataiku DSS to tame 2GB of JSON and map my personal history.
How I used Deepgram and Talend to transcribe a 1981 film company meeting recording, discovering a faster way to handle historical audio archives.
In 2019, I wrote this article about my thoughts on the 5G data revolution. From mandatory enterprise cloud adoption to the rise of consumer data ownership.
