As part of my work with Vestd I end up learning about a variety of business topics, a recent one I have had to improve my knowledge of is treasury shares. So below, mainly for my future benefit, is a...
A year and a bit ago I moved into a new home in South London with my fiancé; the place was served by a train station offering 3 different routes into London. Each route in took roughly the same amount...
Over the years I have build a variety of different things and played with various different technologies but one thing I haven't spent much time with is solar power.
While clearing through some old t...
I have been playing around and building my rover Kevin for several years now. This has been a really fun on and off project as its big enough to sit on and drive around and that's partly the problem,...
The other day my ISP (Plusnet) suffered a nationwide outage that took my internet connection down for about an hour, after realising there was nothing I could do to fix it I sat down with a book which...
Facebook has been in the news a lot recently along with Cambridge Analytica for a rather interesting story about voter manipulation and targeted advertising.
Accessing your own data
It's an interest...
I remember reading about Metro bank a few years ago when they started opening branches and I was genuinely quite excited, finally something new to start shaking up a very boring industry.
I was worki...
As I have found out this week the alur of a good API can make up for a multitude of sins.
At work I have been looking at methods for posting documents programmatically, that is sending a PDF to an AP...
After living with Alexa and a Google Home device for a while my conclusion is that Google Home is a chore to communicate with while Alexa is a joy.
Talking to Alexa feels natural, it feels more like...
I have a thing for interesting machines, especially the type where there is a lot going on and you can get lost following things through and working out how everything functions.
Cool machines
One m...