Notes

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Getting into Arsenal Women / the WSL

I already love football, I already love Arsenal. I just haven't properly followed the women's team before, beyond the odd major tournament.

A year in industry

University teaches you how systems work. Placement has been my first proper look at what happens when those systems absolutely cannot stop working.

Éire Óg

Being part of Éire Óg isn't just about playing. It's fixtures and training, yes, but also everything that happens behind the scenes to keep a club standing.

Arsenal right now

The start of a new season always does something to you as a supporter, whether or not the football actually justifies it yet.

Your camera roll has been training for this

Cupd started from something ridiculously normal: people already take photos of their coffees constantly. I just gave that a place to live.

Could StudyNI become an app?

Past papers contain loads of information about what gets examined and how often. Students normally have to piece that together themselves. I didn't think they should have to.

AI is starting to feel a bit like the Mind Flayer

Not because AI is evil. Because the visible products are only tiny endpoints of something enormous underneath.

Apple finally made the folding iPhone

I've had iPhones since the 6. A genuinely different form factor is far more interesting to me than another normal yearly upgrade.

Cloud has a body

The cloud sounds abstract and weightless. It isn't. It's data centres, cables, cooling systems, electricity, water, land, and an enormous amount of physical infrastructure.

Being 21 and building too many things

I don't really have a five-year founder plan. Most things I've built have started with 'surely this could be better' and then somehow turned into me opening VS Code.

Things I want this site to be

This isn't supposed to be an online CV. It's supposed to be the part of the internet that's actually mine.

Starting from a problem I actually had

Most of what I build starts the same way: I get annoyed at something small, and building a fix is more interesting than living with it.