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.
This is my personal website where I post all my articles, notes, photos, bookmarks and checkins using my own software. View the full archives.
Read more about me, how to contact me and how to follow me.
Weeknotes
Recently
-
Apple Store, Regent Street, London on the Apple iPhone 16 and Watch 10 launch day
-
I was just adding a gig I’m going to on Last.fm when I saw my “member since” date: 16 August 2004 😯. That’s 20 years of scrobbling (since its Audioscrobbler days). Newer than my Gmail account but older than Twitter.
-
Frost boys on our way to The Emirates
-
The Manics and Suede at a sunny Alexandra Palace on Thursday evening
-
I’ve been at Altium almost a year leading our R&D teams in Cambridge and I’m now starting a new role. I’ll be working with our enterprise sales teams, R&D and customers as VP Enterprise Engineering.
It’s a new concept for me and I’ve got much to learn but I’m feeling positive about using my experience in delivery and planning and trying something new.
-
Val Town raises seed round.
I love the idea behind Val Town: it hosts serverless functions for simple APIs or scheduled tasks. I use it to scrape my local council’s waste collection page and return an ICS file that I can subscribe to from my calendar app so that I know which colour bin is being collected on which day.
I need to think up other little uses for it.
-
Big work news: Altium has accepted a $5.9bn offer from Renesas finance.yahoo.com…
-
“Threads is a gripping, miserable experience”. @verge@mastodon.social on Threads (not that one), the post-apocalyptic 1984 British film, still the most harrowing thing I’ve watched. I own it on DVD. I must watch it again.