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2026 1

  1. Retrofabulation: reimagining the past

2025 2

  1. Retrofabulation: Using TypeScript to test ye olde Z80 assembly code [part 2 of 2]
  2. Setting Up a Modern ZX Spectrum Toolchain [part 1 of 2]

2024 2

  1. Scarecase: The Computer Game
  2. Java*: a critique (part 1/n)

2021 1

  1. Removing boxing in IdOrEntity object

2018 1

  1. Typed collection keys

2017 4

  1. Strongly-typed database ids
  2. Non-nullable reference types in C# & .NET
  3. Nullable reference types in C#: backwards compatability
  4. Ionic mobile development, growing pains

2015 6

  1. Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Rabbit Season!
  2. Nullable reference types in C#, generics
  3. Nullable reference types in C#, a digression
  4. Nullable reference types in C#, a design
  5. Nullable reference types in C#, some requirements
  6. Death meets Terry Pratchett

2014 6

  1. Wrapping exceptions for fun and profit
  2. House of Lords in Living-Up-To-Stereotype Shocker
  3. Racism
  4. Macbeth’s recipe for blood
  5. Copyright Reform
  6. MVC4 strongly-typed URL-routing… works

2013 5

  1. On Zombies (in World War Z)
  2. A letter to John Bercow
  3. ID : Type-safety in database code
  4. Strongly typed routing for Microsoft MVC4
  5. All for Naught

2012 4

  1. Comments | Andrew’s Mental Dribbling!
  2. Cardinal O’Brien Sends An Arrogant Letter to Scotland’s Catholics
  3. Mac keeps pausing, fontd run amuck
  4. The Immortal Memory

2011 3

  1. R.I.P. Steve Jobs
  2. Knocked Up
  3. iCal woes

2010 4

  1. To whit: to who?
  2. Prince: brilliant musician; funked-up brain
  3. Moral Philosophy
  4. What I did on my holidays

2009 7

  1. District 9
  2. Moon
  3. Terminator Salvation
  4. Hindley-Milner type inference in Scala
  5. Watchmen
  6. Cyborg Beetles Take To The Skies
  7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

2008 12

  1. A Matter of Loaf And Death
  2. Removing nulls from Scala, some thoughts
  3. WhyNot: A Micro-framework For Expressing & Explaining Business Logic
  4. Dr Who turns Universe into Cheese
  5. MonoRail peeves III—Actions
  6. D&D creator runs out of hit points, expires
  7. Monorail peeves II
  8. Fanta
  9. MonoRail peeves
  10. Robot Sex
  11. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  12. Enchanted

2007 12

  1. A Decade of Blog
  2. Hey Kids, Piracy is Stealing
  3. Spam of the week
  4. Virtual Machines for Increased Cupboard Space
  5. Hoff to Di: Get In My Car
  6. Scientology versus…
  7. Spider-Man 3
  8. The Matrix Dezionized
  9. Lies That Theatre People Tell
  10. 300
  11. dysphoria.net Back (Again)
  12. March of The Penguins

2006 25

  1. X-Men: The Last Stand
  2. The Da Vinci Code
  3. Charlie Brooker is a poetic genius
  4. FW: BA cancels flights
  5. And the moral of this story is?
  6. The Cell
  7. Stramash
  8. The Constant Gardener
  9. Ice Age: The Meltdown
  10. Patronising Wankers
  11. Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Lend me your ears!
  12. CMS Survey
  13. The Matador
  14. I’m glad I’m not famous
  15. Dinner Rush
  16. Good Night, And Good Luck
  17. The Producers
  18. UTF-8 A-Go-Go
  19. The IT Crowd… not all that good really
  20. I’m popular!
  21. Brokeback Mountain
  22. The IT Crowd
  23. Cracking Cheese!
  24. Corpse Bride
  25. King Kong

2005 29

  1. Star Wars—Short Attention Span Edition
  2. The Chronicals of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
  3. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
  4. Madagascar
  5. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  6. Mary Queen of Scots Gets Her Head Chopped Off
  7. Bewitched
  8. Bad Religion
  9. Star Wreck—In The Pirkinning
  10. Computer “bug” devastates futuristic ‘hyper-diary’
  11. Eccleston Holds Own Against Baker Shocker!
  12. Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
  13. SA700369.JPG
  14. What do you think of the film so far?
  15. Sin City
  16. “Boffins create zombie dogs”
  17. Kung Fu Hustle
  18. Batman Begins
  19. Scientists construct artificial brain II
  20. The Make Keyboards Sensible campaign!
  21. Revenge of The Sith
  22. NFS! File locking! Firewalls! Pain!
  23. Interactive cyber-chicken-petting
  24. “Space is big, really big”
  25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy
  26. It’s Just A Flesh Wound!
  27. Constantine
  28. The Interpreter
  29. Hello world!

1998 3

  1. Graham’s Forgiving
  2. Artificial Flesh
  3. My God! Somebody Made Me A Lecturer!

1997 3

  1. Attack of The Bizarre E-mail
  2. Copyright Infringement of The Week
  3. Politically Correct Shock Mourn Horror!