In 2021 I published a post titled “Why I Gave Up Software Development To Be A Blogger” which discussed why I made the decision to give up my career in software development, to become a content creator/digital media business owner. It proved to be a great decision because: By the middle of last year, I … Read more
30th November 2022 was quite a big day: Microsoft-backed OpenAI released ChatGPT, an AI ‘chat bot’ which is… significantly more powerful than the 2000-era chat bots we are used to. Someone built a virtual machine inside ChatGPT. Others used it to write short movies, code for their job, essays for school and college, and a … Read more
I recently gave up a perfectly good career as a software developer, and instead I plan to write blog posts and shoot YouTube videos for a living. I figure that it’s worth writing down why I have made this decision – if only for myself. I don’t fully know what I’m going to write here … Read more
My wife and I had our gorgeous baby son (Xavier) at the end of May. Whilst neither of us are hardened environmentalists, we have always tried to reduce waste where possible… which is tricky with a newborn baby! After all, babies go through a lot of nappies, wet wipes and cotton wool and clothes. Plus raising a … Read more