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Zien shut down. I left at the end of 2023. I don't have any financial interest in the company, but I'm still concerned about the people left behind. Now is an opportune time to reflect on what I've learned. What I would do again
The target audience is adults with limited technical knowledge working in the business/financial sector . A few general recommendations that cover both fairly regularly: patio11 's Complex Systems and Bits about Money and Patrick Boyle Artificial Intelligence Advances in Financial Machine Learning ( summary ) is the go-to book for
via " If staff don’t want to work any more, leaders should step up " 'The management guru Peter Drucker would sometimes ask a room full of executives how many had “dead wood” in their teams or businesses. A lot of hands would go up.
Gergely asked, ' What are some good/fun/interesting gift ideas for someone working in tech? ' Here are five I use and five I've heard good things about that are on my wish list. The five I own The Usbourne Book of the Future I read it
Leigh asked : Anyone read or have any good advice for organising out of hours cover for small dev teams managing their own services? E.G. how to fairly compensate for overtime, organise rotas, manage escalation of issues, etc? What we used at Skype seemed to work well. The team was
A rules-based chatbot allows for rapid development. Adding rules as you go, some of which can contain complex logic. Rules-based systems do not use large amounts of computation and especially don’t require GPUs, cheaper running costs and more responsive replies. As powerful as rules-based chatbots
I've been working on chatbots on and off for a while now. The other day, I received a question about how I built the latest Chatbot. "I love the Chatbot, and it has been something I've been trying to replicate. There is so much noise.
I started programming with graphics and also a former games developer, so over the years I collected a number of resources. Recently I've seen a couple of people asking for some resource to get started. Games Engines Game Programming Patterns Game Engine Architecture Rendering Real-Time Rendering Physically
Very much a part two of ‘ Mistakes I’ve made in my career (so far) ’ The Question My Experience I am expanding on my Twitter thread . At a previous start-up. Greenfield project. New team. We got started with building version one. We began as a free
"Be good to hear your thoughts on something I think could benefit you - can you spare a minute?" I get a regular stream of messages like this, sometimes multiple ones a day. The text provided zero context. About the only thing I learn is some random person I
Expanding on this comment . So you switched from building things to management . Read these to understand your new role: The Engineer/Manager Pendulum An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities) A Manager’s Bill of Responsibilities (and Rights) The Seven Habits of One Highly Effective Manager of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DJGzimSKUw Full disclosure Dan is a friend, we have known each other for a years. That out of the way. You should also watch the full talk. Dan covers the points in more detail and answers some great questions at the end. Building the
Starting at the beginning, what is blockchain? https://youtu.be/hYip_Vuv8J0 For a nice overview of the space and what happened in 2017, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver did a good episode on cryptocurrencies . Most people will have heard of Bitcoin by now. Developed in 2008 by the
At Rails Girls London Winter 2017 , we had a photo booth for the first time. Beside being lots of fun. While flicking though the images I thought they'd look good as a video. Firing up Processing . I didn't try to be clever. The program loads all
For this Rails Girls London . It seemed like an idea (still not sure it was a good one) to look back on my career to date. https://speakerdeck.com/zoenolan/mistakes-ive-made-in-my-career-so-far I've been doing this software stuff professionally for a while