Barry Frost
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.
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Week 74 - Pirate
My job hunting seems to be going well. I’m through to a couple of interview processes next week at companies I like. No... -
I’d love to swap my Echo devices for HomePods, especially the new full-size ones, for privacy and HomeKit ecosystem reasons, but they’re not quite there for me. I can live with Siri being inferior to Alexa or Google Assistant for searches, but I need these:
BBC radio apps (or native support) so I can say “Play Radio 4” or “Play 6 Music”. This is probably 80% of my use of the Echo in the kitchen.
Full Spotify Connect so I can resume or control playback from my laptop or phone. AirPlaying audio...
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I’m treating my job search like a full-time job and finding I’m just as busy with calls and messages. I have a few exciting roles at early stages and feeling positive. I’m also enjoying swapping leads with other ex-colleagues - something positive out of all the #layoffs.
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Week 73 - End
Not the best start to the week: on Monday I was made redundant after just one year at Privitar. The company had been... -
Well it’s been a disappointing start to the year… yesterday I was let go from my job. Although it was one of several redundancies it’s still a bit of a gut punch and the first time I’ve been laid off. Hey ho. Time to move on and get stuck into a job search.
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Week 72 - Bowling
Back to work after the Christmas break. For the last day of my time off L decided we should all go bowling in Stevenage. It... -
Week 71 - Coat
Christmas is done for another year. We’ve started to get used to the lie-ins, guilt-free booze and cheese, but it’s back to... -
Week 70 - Christmas
Merry Christmas! This is a couple of days late as a result of taking a proper break. I’ll recap. The week began with H’s... -
Week 69 - Snow
🎶 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow 🎶 We had a decent dumping of snow to wake up to on Monday and all of us were out... -
Congratulations to @paulrobertlloyd on the launch of getindiekit.com.… It’s an incredibly polished and well-designed #indieweb tool. If you’re thinking of setting up a personal website (you should!) then you should definitely be checking out Indiekit.
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Week 68 - Santa
It’s been icy-cold this week, the temperature barely reaching above zero. No snow yet, but plenty of ice and frost. I picked... -
Week 67 - Tree
I’m very proud of my team this week. We delivered a big release of our platform exactly when predicted and planned, despite... -
Week 66 - Sky
It was my birthday on Monday. I had taken the day off, but was feeling a bit under the weather, so lunch out with L was... -
Week 65 - French
Almost thirty years ago I went on a French exchange with a boy from a school near Lyon. We rode for hours on bikes through... -
Week 64 - League
We were supposed to have full fibre (FTTP) installed on Monday afternoon, but the Openreach engineer didn’t turn up. After... -
Oh no… I thought I’d managed to beat my Football Manager addiction. #FM23 is now available as part of Apple Arcade with cloud sync across Mac and iOS devices 🫣 apps.apple.com…
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I’ve added Mastodon syndication to my website’s backend, which means this post should appear on my website (barryfrost.com), my Twitter account (@barryf) and my Mastodon account (@barryf@mastodon.social). #indieweb
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Week 63 - Halloween
We went trick-or-treating for Halloween with the boys around the village. The curmudgeon in me grumbles about the... -
Because of the alarming events unfolding at Twitter, like many I’ve been exploring Mastodon. I’m optimistic. You can find me at mastodon.social… or my own #indieweb website barryfrost.com.
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Week 62 - Gaming
A busy week started with H’s birthday. He wanted a gaming party, so we hired a man with a tent and plenty of consoles to...