Work Moxy’s hatching an egg A note from future Mark (11/08/2018) Moxy is the name I went by, from late 2009 til early 2012. A few days ago I eluded to some big news, for me anyway. and I'm finally in a position to share it, so here I go, sharing
Archive I’ve been coding half my life I've had a few things I've wanted to talk about this week, but haven't found the time, busy as I've been with work, a slightly befuddling social life and of course my big project, But something dawned on me earlier in the
Work TweetPaste RIP A note from future Mark (11/08/2018) Moxy is the name I went by, from late 2009 til early 2012. TweetPaste is a tool that predated Twitter's oEmbed support (the ability to embed a tweet into a blog post without taking a screenshot). TweetPaste was one of,
Archive The House with the Red Door I yawn and shake myself awake. I'm vaguely aware of a white room; maybe it's clinical. A man's voice says something in another language, which I later decide is German. I climb out of my bunk bed. Then I wake up, again. This was,
Archive The results are in A little over 2 weeks ago, I took part in Django Dash, a 48-hour contest for Django developers. I built Transphorm, a site to help people make and track changes in their life. The results are in, and… drumroll please… I didn't win 😉 I did however, come joint
Archive I’ve entered Django Dash At midnight on Saturday 14th of August, I'll embark on a 48 hour solo hackathon to produce an app for this year's Django Dash competition. I'm really excited. I'd heard about it in one or two places, and thought it was something
Archive A night in the Vaults Walk about 100 yards from the bottom of Newhall Place in the Jewellery Quarter, down a set of steps and through a stone-clad passageway, and if you're lucky you'll hear the enticing sounds of piano and sax drifting from the tiny bar room. On Thursday, the
Archive Loco in Orlando Last year, I took up an offer to fly to Florida for a couple of weeks. It's now nearly a week since our flight was cancelled, and I'm going just a little stir crazy. Had it not been for the WiFi which we're illegally
Archive Mum and Dad Most of us end up owing our parents something, at one point or another in our lifetimes. This may be money, time, words, patience. For me, the biggest debt I owe my parents is gratitude. I do my best to show it, but like "sorry", "thank you&
Archive Crossing the gulf Hi, I'm Mark, and I'm a PC. I have been since I was bought an RM Nimbus 286, an IBM-compatible lightening-slow PC so old and forgotten it doesn't even have its own Wikipedia page. As Apple had already been churning out personal computers ten
Archive What am I for? I've had a couple of chats recently, both online and face-to-face in which I'd discussed my place within certain circles. I'd suggested that there existed some sort of cabal or clique that I was unable to penetrate, and tonight have realised that this is
