Through the Interface

Back home

I talked in the last post about the fact I grew up in Norfolk. A few years before he passed, my Dad moved to the Newmarket area, but prior to that I grew up in a small town on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens called Downham Market. For the first time in over a decade I had a good reason to head back to Downham. (While I’ve called it “home” in the title of this post, it really isn’t anymore.) Two old school friends managed to coordinate being back in the UK - from New Zealand and Malaysia,... Read more →

A tale of unconscious bias

This post is a bit different from my usual fare. Susanna Holt, a colleague I’ve known for more than two decades - and have a huge amount of respect for - recently posted on LinkedIn about an encounter we had soon after we first met. She was amazing throughout the process of sharing the information: she made it anonymous, was unnecessarily complimentary and even made sure I was fine with it being posted. So I have no idea why I feel the need to post something here. It’s just a bit of an itch I feel like scratching, I... Read more →

Swissbau 2024

On Monday afternoon I received a message from my friend Sven Amiet asking whether I'd be going to Swissbau 2024. I had some sense it was happening this year (it happens every other one), but I hadn't realised it was this week already. In any case I checked my meeting schedule - and found that I didn't have anything important - and decided to head across to Basel on Tuesday morning. It’s always impressive to arrive at Basel’s Messeplatz by tram. The last time I’d been here was for Swissbau 2020 (I skipped the one held 2 years ago).... Read more →

Come and build a Forma extension in Oslo

Happy New Year to everyone reading this blog. I hope that those of you who had time off enjoyed it to the max: I certainly did. Mixing metaphors gratuitously, I’m now back in the saddle and trying hard to get my head back in the game. Here’s a fun topic to get the year started: Håvard Høiby from the Forma team has posted about an event that’s coming up in Oslo from February 13-14, 2024. It’s called an Extendathon: a public Hackathon (although if you want to treat it like an APS Accelerator and work on your own company’s... Read more →