Finding the chase and cutting to it

I have spent the past four years of my career helping teams understand their cyber risk. I would say, first and foremost, many of the established ways of doing business fundamentally introduce vulnerabilities into code. I love open source, but there are libraries I do not touch because I only “need” a couple of functions […]

This is a quick recount of forming my own company in the UK from having an idea on the 14th February 2026 and releasing its first product on the 9th April 2026. That’s 7 weeks and 6 days… Actually, I was on holiday, 5,000 miles from my home (as the crow flies) without a computer […]

It wasn’t a terrifically warm or sunny Easter, but the week after it was. Time to erect the sail shade I had bought last year. You waited eight months before putting it up? When you put it like that, it sounds like a missed opportunity. However, there were reasons, not limited to the fact I […]

Words to the wise: the majority of this paper is our usual exploration on how you can see the impact your efforts make in your home. I do include the actual mathematics at the bottom to explain where some of this has come from – you do not need to read this unless you want […]

When we got our solar cells, we were never looking to be off-grid. The move was to support us and our new electric car. I had an interest in heat pumps, especially ground source, but in 2014, we saw solar as helping us ease the load. Of course, the world has changed dramatically since then: […]

Was it all worth it? The hardest thing about a purchase like windows for your house is that feeling you don’t know if it was worth it. It feels intangilble. Even thermal imaging is a hard thing to assess because bricks have a high thermal mass, or in terms of house insulation efficiency a low […]