gtf21

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Ex-Cambridge Natural Scientist (specialised in Astrophysics). Co-founder/CTO of Converge (converge.io) - making construction more efficient, safer, and more sustainable with sensors and AI. Develops mostly in haskell, clojure, typescript, python.
  1. Why Haskell? (gtf.io)
  2. I used to maintain a list of cultural events (art, dance, theatre, music etc.) in London manually for friends and family, but it got quite tedious to maintain, and I kept forgetting sites. I built this application to…

  3. I've used gnu mailman (at university and personally) and google groups (for work), with discourse for a few communities that are all tech-oriented, but would like to know if there exist good mailing list solutions (can…

  4. We're a ~40 person startup, about to scale post-series A. We have been using Google Suite since the beginning in 2015, and honestly it's just terrible software and feels like it has had zero updates in 7 years. One of…

  5. I use a VPN [1] for my own privacy and security reasons. I often find, however, sites either bouncing me to captcha sites (normally the Cloudflare captcha IIRC) or just refusing to load. For example, I tried searching…

  6. In the UK if I take out a loan, for example, they check my credit history with a credit reference agency. Similarly, they will pass data to the credit reference agency (CRA). I can see that there is a lawful basis for…

  7. I use Pocket to save web-based articles, but have an increasingly cluttered collection of PDFs which I fully intend to read (or at least reference) but never get around to it. Some of these are from emails, slack,…

  8. I have µMatrix in my browser, and by default it blocks the AMP CDN. The result of this seems to be horrendous white-screen times for web-pages, beyond what I would expect it to take for a web-server to load these pages,…

  9. We introduced a lunch-n-learn in my team, and I often find myself bouncing between various presentation tools. I often demo code, and use graphs (e.g. for performance testing). I haven't really found a tool that suits…

  10. The Snoopers' Charter passed into law here in the UK, and now ISPs will be compelled to keep internet connection records, which will be made available to a shocking number of agencies. For some time, I've been meaning…