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, checkins and listens using my own software. View the full archives.
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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... -
Week 61 - Postal
It was the boys’ parent-teacher consultations this week so we visited their classrooms to sit on teeny-tiny chairs. They... -
Week 60 - Bumps
Youngest son, C, managed to fall off a wall at school onto his head. No lasting damage done, but it meant bruises, an... -
Week 59 - Pigeon
We’re close to the end of our Sky broadband and TV contract and it’s time to switch. I’ve been researching. We rarely watch... -
Week 58 - Colder
Winter’s on its way: the nights are drawing in, it’s noticeably colder in the mornings and the heating even automatically... -
Week 57 - Fraud
It was a bank holiday on Monday for the Queen’s funeral. I didn’t watch the coverage, but I was thankful for the free time... -
Week 56 - Quiz
The nation is in full-on mourning mode following the Queen’s death last week. Brands are jumping on the grief bandwagon,... -
Week 55 - Succession
The Queen has died. I’m no monarchist, but her 70 years of duty to our country has been remarkable. And while I’ve little... -
Week 54 - Buzzer
This was the last week of the school holidays. Everyone except me is returning or starting at school next week, including... -
Week 53 - Launch
After last week’s peace and quiet, L brought the boys back from her parents’. Chaos has resumed. At work we announced the GA... -
Week 52 - Solo
It’s the school holidays, so to break up the monotony of having the boys every day at home, L took them to stay at her... -
Week 51 - Spider
Being woken up in the night by our burglar alarm this week was pretty frightening. I went downstairs fearing the worst,... -
Week 50 - Planets
It was our eighth wedding anniversary this week. Although we've got a night out booked in for babysitting with grandparents...