I’ve had a busy career year and am constantly reeling off new learnings and experiences with little time to pause. So I have made some time to pause and reflect, and share my biggest takeaways for longevity sake.
Its been a while, and at least part of the reason its been a while is that itching feeling of a re-ramp up I wasn't quite ready to face. Therefore, the publishing of this post is in itself... a victory.
Foodtrucks is a complete full stack project using modern web technologies with a frontend/backend split. Designed to be scalable and secure, fast and intuitive. Built to tackle a personal challenge of finding mobile food.
Over a year ago pastels entered the chat on this blog, and at the time I mentioned a desire to increase the palette further with distinct colours based on the category of the post (subject to there being enough posts to warrant this).
My brother came to me in Autumn 2020 with a view he wanted to do something for Movember - in particular he had in mind a 60 km cumulative running distance challenge. The idea was asking friends and family to sponsor each of the 60km, and myself, brother, and dad would then commit to run all of them (each!) over November.
Not in the stressful bricks and mortar kind of way. The blog has moved from PythonAnywhere to some dedicated CDN (because its all static!) hosting on Netlify.
I've been banging the drum of password managers since making poor sign-up decisions in the past and finding my primary email address appear in no less than four known leaks on haveibeenpwned.
Back in Spring 2017 I took a fortnight trip to Japan with two university friends. It was an unforgettable experience that I tried to capture with my phone at the time, a loyal Samsung A3 with a slightly broken screen that made everything appear with a slight-greenish tint.
More fun with images follows. First up on mobile devices the images are only taking up 80% of the width which is wasteful, its even worse when its designated portrait - more on this later.
I buy the minimalist vibe, and its got me this far. But I wanted to add some funkiness and get away from the monochrome - the answer being some colour splashiness across the site.
Shot in April 2019 with my Ricoh500ME for the first time on ISO800 film, all taken across a Spring weekend in Edinburgh.
The Run Time Predictor was actually the first thing on Sconewrong and what caused the site that became this blog to be setup. It started when I was playing about in developing website backends using Python, fusing with my running hobby.
I'm not writing this in the way I came to the solution - it will come across far more coherent than reality. I wanted to have a nice way of displaying photos (not images/diagrams) on blog posts - and I guess this is the documented journey.
What you're seeing is the official sconewrong blog. At time of writing the sconewrong.com domain is host to a rather basic, but beautiful, run time predictor.