Job interviews

This morning on BBC business I saw a married couple being interviewed about their start up. It was a place for people to upload videos to sell themselves as opposed to the traditional CV. I think it was pitched as ‘CVs for the Snapchat generation’ Didn’t really excite me but I’m not the Snapchat generation.…

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Redmond weed

Have Microsoft been od’ing on the legal weed? On 07/06 Microsoft made an announcement that basically said if you are running Sharepoint Online, you need to get all your solutions migrated from Sharepoint designer workflows to power automate. If you could just get that done in the next couple of months before we turn it…

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Rules

“If you hang out with people smarter, harder working, and morally better than oneself, you always live in a funnel of positive serendipity because effectively you are dragged upwards to the mean benchmark, which is higher than oneself.”

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YouTube trends

A data scientist took a look at YouTube to see whats working and whats not. “The main goal of the analysis is to find interesting facts and patterns by exploring the data and by using effective visualizations. Some of the questions the analysis will answer: What is the average/minimum/maximum view count for 2019’s trending videos?…

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API agregation

Levelling the playing field for all. “Segment was the first API routing layer I remember seeing. At launch, their value proposition was that you could call their APIs from your product, and get access to your analytics data in any analytics service, starting with Mixpanel, Google Analytics and Kissmetrics. The advantage was that you could…

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Pen testing

I’m in the process of delivering a new web application on Azure. I am working through the CIS benchmark hardening recommendations for the various Azure components. Before go live it will be pen tested by an external specialist. I wondered what kind of pen testing I could do myself prior. Thats when I can across…

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Subbuteo sculpting

We recently visited a friend, whilst we were there he was working on painting & sculpting Subbuteo figures. They start off plain with no colour or character (unfortunately didn’t get a picture) As they get some colour they start to come alive. Then Ruud Gullit is born & ready for action. Not sure whats most…

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