Lessons from Remote Working

Posted on Sun 18 February 2018 in Tech

For the past few years as a freelancer, I've done many forms of remote work. I've worked both part and full-time remote positions, I've also worked with teams across multiple time-zones, in locations ranging from home offices, hotdesking, even camping and crummy motels, so I have a fairly broad range …


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Supplementing an iPad Pro with Linux

Posted on Sun 21 January 2018 in Tech

Recently I wrote about why I'm using an iPad Pro as my main "at home" machine and how I'm generally using it for tinkering around with remote servers. There is however, one caveat. I do still have an at-home server that I use for helping with making the iPad as …


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The iPad Pro as a focused, simple coding machine

Posted on Sat 20 January 2018 in Tech

So recently I wrote a post on why a developer might use an iPad Pro as an at home machine. Today, I'm going to elaborate on how I'm actually using it day to day.

So there is not much you can do locally

Realistically, as a local dev environment there …


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Why an iPad for a backend developer

Posted on Mon 08 January 2018 in Tech

So I'm a backend developer. I'm often closest to the source of most technical problems at my job. Networking issues, memory issues, hardware issues, operating system issues, the list goes on. I need to be able to tinker and play with things often, so usually my work environments reflect this …


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