Technologist, outdoorsman. Building something new, previously VP Architecture @monzo.
Zurich, Switzerland
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This video about how the Hoover Dam was designed and built is worth every minute of your time. Incredible engineering. youtu.be/4EdMImlZE2s
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Moving to a new country is a cruel exercise in rediscovering all the terrible customer experiences of a legacy bank that we set out to fix in building @monzo.
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Been waiting for a write-up like this about the recent UK air traffic control meltdown 🤓 jameshaydon.github.io/nats-f…
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Thinking big is the #1 skill set I find it so hard to teach. If you can think big enough, you care less about shipping edge cases. Being able to think big is the most useful skill for system design and product vision in my experience.
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Just went into a random bank in Scotland to get some change to wash my clothes, and in there I see this huge poster naming @monzo as #1 bank in the UK for overall service quality. Quite surreal in this context, and the kind of thing people said would never happen. 👏
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So, I have a <div> containing an arbitrary amount of text. When that text is too long to fit, I want it to be truncated with an ellipsis.
Please tell me that this isn't as impossible as it's seeming.
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“Apple is not a company where general managers oversee managers; it is a company where experts lead experts. The assumption is that it’s easier to train an expert to manage well than to train a manager to be an expert.” 👏 hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is…
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OH MY GOD I'd heard about Windows 11 calling a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English because of really lazy translating but it's ACTUALLY HERE ON MY PC like not even in beta this is actually happening right now in publicly available Windows
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I've not been terribly taken in by VR gadgets in the last decade, but this is unbelievably impressive technology. I want one. 👀
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So many products seem to be sending more push notification spam. While I know it must be moving some graphs up and to the right for them, it's a real shame – it just makes me turn their notifications off completely, even though that often undermines the app's core value prop.
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Clearest image ever taken of Venus. Photo by JAXA..
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I feel like airline systems would be fascinating to try to rearchitect using modern tech. Complex, interesting, realtime problems – both from a distributed systems as well as a human-computer interaction perspective – and the existing systems really aren't up to scratch ✈️
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Amazing that people have to use this kind of thing youtu.be/1PHJkm_nNL8
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"I remember being involved with RFQs with Sabre and competitors to enable a flexible date search of ± 3 days the quotes coming back for sometime like 9 months of development for a crazy amount like $2M." news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Go feels so refreshingly simple every time I come back to it after an extended period with other languages.
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Comic strips seem like an under-appreciated and under-used communication medium. They can be so effective at explaining complex situations in a fun way, even about quite dry subjects. ✏️
Eg, I remember the one introducing Google Chrome fondly. google.com/googlebooks/chrom…
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