Tools WhatsApp as a note-taking app For short form note taking, WhatsApp is actually the best option I've found. It's fast, secure, available on all my devices, synchronised, searchable and free.
Software Engineering How to host a highly scalable ghost publication for free TL;DR: Spin up a local container running Ghost, crawl the frontend to generate a static site, and upload to a free static host. While there's quite a few options for statically hosting written content for free, most of these involve using markdown as your writing interface. While this is
Photography Photos of North Korea I spent some time in North Korea (DPRK [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea]), via a specialist travel agency. I didn't get as many good photos as I would have liked, but below are some of the better ones. Pyongyang with "traffic lady"DMZ and paintingVarious signs and sources
Recipes My Ideal Fudge Recipe The only difficult thing about making delicious fudge is how long and at what temperature to cook it for. Ingredients Makes: ~900g of fudge * 550g demerara sugar * 100g butter * 170g golden syrup * 1.5-2 tps sea salt flakes * 30g maple syrup * 350ml double cream * 1 tsp vanilla extract Optional: * Sugar
Software Engineering How we reduced our failed payment rate by 92% Originally posted on Gousto Engineering & Data [https://medium.com/gousto-engineering-techbrunch] Most Gousto customers choose to get their recipe boxes [https://www.gousto.co.uk/] on a subscription basis: every week they choose their recipes from our menu, and we pick, pack and deliver them to their door. To give customers
Software Engineering Why Ghost? Back in the day I used WordPress quite a bit. It had many appealing qualities - it was easy to host, very extendable and had a huge community of users. So huge that even in 2020, WordPress runs over 33% [https://kinsta.com/wordpress-market-share/] of all websites. I used WordPress
Recipes Moscow Mule Twist My take on the simple Moscow Mule cocktail. I use a quince infused vodka which gives a unique twist. I picked up the quince vodka from Szambelan, [http://www.szambelan.pl/en/] a vodka producer in Krakow - but you can infuse your own [http://www.withaglass.com/?p=7276]
Photography Zenit 12XP Photos With Helios 44M-4 As I talked about in my Helios 44M-4 post, [https://sgbarker.com/blog/use-soviet-helios-lens-fuji-x-t20/] I bought a 1980s Zenit camera and lens kit, mainly to fit the lens to my Fuji X [https://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/x/] camera. But I also put a film in the Zenit to
Photography Using a Soviet-era Helios Lens with a Fuji X-T20 Apparently you can fit pretty much any old film lens to a Fuji X-series camera, given the right adapter. This is an inexpensive way to try out retro glass on a modern mirrorless body - so thought I'd give it a go with a Helios 44M-4. You can pick up
