Fitness Goals and My Running History
I want to blog about running, but having never mentioned it on here I feel like I should give some history, so let’s go back in time….
Blog What I Made
General geeky postings from John McKerrell. iPhone, Rails and JavaScript software developer in the North of England. DoES Liverpool co-founder and two time BarCamp Liverpool organiser
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Starting a running log
I was listening to a podcast recently that suggested that everyone (who runs) should keep a running log, to keep more than just the details of a run like the distance and time but also how you feel on the run and what you were thinking about while you were out. I thought I’d give it a go.
MING and the Kindle
I’ve recently been playing with a set of technologies that are becoming known as the MING stack which consists of: MQTT - A pub-sub message queue/protocol Influx DB - A time series database Node-RED - A GUI tool for doing event driven programming in a web browser Grafana - A graphing dashboard tool We’ve had these set up for a while in DoES Liverpool to monitor the power use of the space and of…
Ethan’s Name Plate
My daughter Evie was given a very nice thing soon after she was born - her name cut out of a piece of wood. My son Ethan however wasn’t bought such a thing and I decided that I should try to make something along the same lines. The idea developed into making a nameplate for his bedroom and after thinking about it for a little while I came up with an idea.
Year Notes: 2016
So 2016 started quite similarly to 2014 with a new baby in the house. I was fortunate enough that when agreeing to take the job at Axon Vibe I’d had the foresight to request that, in the event that we had another baby, I’d be able to take a 3 month extended parental leave (unpaid). I was so glad I’d done that as it meant I could be much more involved in Ethan’s early days and also give Evie some…
Year Notes: 2015
Last year’s notes ended with a cliff hanger, would I take a permanent job at Axon Vibe or would I not? Well the year began straight away with a visit to head office. Flying out to Lucerne in Switzerland on the fifth of January. This was actually my wife’s first day back in work after being off for over a year’s maternity leave. It was unfortunate to have to leave her to sort out our daughter…
Year Notes: 2014
So obviously after the events at the tail end of 2013, this year was mostly spent dealing with the fact that we now had a tiny (not so tiny) baby to look after! Work-wise I’d stupidly taken on two new clients just before baby came along so while they were freelance clients who were aware of what was happening, it did mean I had some worries about making sure I could do work for them. In the end…
Year Notes: 2013
I was tempted to skip this year as I had after all written a blog post that year already, but why not go crazy and write a second one, maybe the 2013 review would have been the first post of 2014 anyway?
New New Blog, New Old Blog
So I’ve decided to replace my previous blog with a WordPress blog.
Long time no see
It’s been a very long time since I’ve written anything here. I thought I’d like to write up a small project I did recently, but then there would be a bit of back story, and then a bit more, and oh yes I haven’t blogged in 4 years so I should really do something about that.