Hello, I’m Barry (he/him), a software engineer and technology leader with experience building teams, websites and apps. I live in a village in Hertfordshire, UK, with my wife and two sons.
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Weeknotes
Recently
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Photos from our visit to Wes Anderson: The Archives at the Design Museum in London today.
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Gigs in October: The Beta Band at the Roundhouse and Gene at Hammersmith Apollo.
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Frost boys wearing our Arsenal shirts, climbing the stairs into the Emirates Stadium. Dad wearing 14 Gyökeres, sons wearing 9...
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Oasis - first night at Wembley 2025
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I’m off to Wembley later to see Oasis 🥳 which completes the Britpop Big Four of gigs within the last two years: Blur (Wembley in 2023), Suede (Ally Pally in 2024), Pulp (O2 in June) and now Oasis.
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OpenAI buys Windsurf for $3B. Not bad for “just” a VSCode fork. As an early Windsurf paying customer, I’m curious but wary of what comes next.
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My favourite band, Gene, are reuniting for their first gig in 21 years 🎉 I was at their last one in… 2004. See you in Hammersmith 🤩