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Should you ever rewrite a large code base?
Here is a very interesting article on whether you should rewrite a large code base. I found it when asking the question “Whatever happened to FogBugz”. The answer is that it is still available.
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Never use Easyjet Car rentals (CarTrawler)
I booked my summer holiday to Germany using Easyjet and the car rental service that is built into their website. This is called Easyjet Car Rentals (powered by Cartrawler). Easyjet cancelled my flights but Easyjet/CarTrawler refuse to amend my car rental. I can cancel it but because it is a 7 seater I cannot rebook…
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Putin Joke
Putin dies and goes to hell, but after a while, he is given a day off for good behavior. So he goes to Moscow, enters a bar, orders a drink, and asks the bartender: -Is Crimea ours? -Yes, it is. -And the Donbas? -Also ours. -And Kyiv? -We got that too. Satisfied, Putin drinks, and…
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Restore The Music UK
I am presently helping Restore The Music UK with their hosting, WordPress and event management challenges. This fine organisation raises money for music in schools and gives grants to enable every pupil to be able to pick up an instrument.
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Home battery packs now make sense
Here is a great video from EVM about how you can use home battery packs (“powerwalls”) to shift the cost of electricity from expensive daytime to cheaper night-time rates. I have blogged before about how the case for solar panels on domestic roofs is marginal or negative but I think this solution will almost certainly…
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Lewisham Underwater Hockey Club
My sport is Underwater Hockey and I help run Lewisham Underwater Hockey Club which is in Forest Hill Pools in South East London. I have just launched a new website for Lewisham Underwater Hockey Club and I am trying to improve its SEO by linking to it with various terms like underwater hockey and octopush.…
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Brilliant exposition of how co-operation evolves in a society
Those interested in economics and crypto-economics in particular may will be fascinated by this description of how trust evolves in a society. I am familiar with the content but this is the best exposition by far. https://ncase.me/trust/
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Backing up your broadband connection with mobile
If you work from home in the UK then you probably have a broadband connection that is carried over a plain-old-telephone wire from the cabinet in the road to your house. You can buy your broadband service from many different providers but it will still be delivered by that fragile copper wire which is owned…
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Power Query “each”
I am learning Power Query and the “each” function comes up a lot. Here is an explanation of its function an purpose for those of us who don’t have a background in functional programming. https://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2018/01/09/each-keyword-power-query/ This explanation of how Power Query uses anonymous functions that return true of false helped me understand the countorcondition parameter…
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Power Query Refer to previous row
There is an excellent tutorial from Goodly here. TLDR; use the list index selector {}
Dr James Bayley
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Dr James Bayley 