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Jamie’s blog about software, startups, and swimming (and other things that don’t alliterate).

Software / engineering practiceDevOps / SRE / infrastructureEngineering management / careers

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92 from 25 Jan 2005 to 24 Oct 2026
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now and then (5 in the last year)
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2026 4

  1. How to secure your Cloudflare install (or other WAF)
  2. The Point
  3. You can just build it
  4. SaaS is dead; long live SaaS!

2025 9

  1. Swimming review: 2025
  2. What I can change
  3. Why you need to adopt AI (as a software engineer)
  4. You are the scariest monster in the woods
  5. Podia at scale
  6. You’re all CTO now
  7. Continue reading →
  8. Fixing Bridgetown on Cloudflare Page (v2)
  9. I disagree

2024 7

  1. The evolution of incident response at Podia
  2. Why Podia doesn't use review apps anymore
  3. Moving off Heroku, slowly
  4. We're all in the arena
  5. The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins
  6. Swim Smooth Mallorca, 2024
  7. The biggest changes

2023 4

  1. Continue reading →
  2. my first post
  3. Rebuilding the blog in 2023
  4. Hobbies

2022 3

  1. Cloudflare Tunnels for Local Development
  2. What you don't know if you don't have a CompSci degree
  3. The Manager's Stack

2021 5

  1. Hard problems are valuable problems
  2. Communication > Coding
  3. The hidden effort in software
  4. Continue reading →
  5. Tools of Podia (2020 edition)

2020 6

  1. How I read books in 2020
  2. Technical debt smells like money
  3. Podia's engineering culture
  4. Use these "unfair advantages" when applying for a job
  5. Should
  6. Boredom Envelopes

2018 3

  1. Implementing Impersonation
  2. Restoring my Humanscale Liberty
  3. Continue reading →

2017 3

  1. The one thing
  2. Querying CSV files in SQL
  3. Moving from Wordpress to Middleman

2016 1

  1. I saved a man from drowning

2015 8

  1. Why Rollbar is the exceptional Exception Tracker
  2. Implementing HexGrids in Ruby
  3. Delegation for Founders
  4. Scared / Proud
  5. A Book Journey for Non-technical Founders
  6. The key to my best swimming
  7. The Triangle Question
  8. Continue reading →

2014 14

  1. Schema vs Query-based Multitenancy
  2. When you hire them, their problems are your problems
  3. Can your entrepreneurial need be satisfied working for someone else?
  4. The Ruby in Rails
  5. We killed them and didn’t even notice
  6. How to Build a Raspberry Pi Camera Trap
  7. Don't put me in one of those
  8. Discovering Hedgie - Building a Hedgehog Footprint Tunnel
  9. Every business is a lifestyle business
  10. Continue reading →
  11. Why I swam 2 miles this morning - the power of habits
  12. Using Guard and Vagrant for Rails development
  13. Let’s be clear: Maximising time-in-app is hostile to users
  14. The Engineering Spectrum

2013 1

  1. Curing the SAD

2012 3

  1. Nothing changes unless you change it
  2. Software has no intrinsic value
  3. Continue reading →

2010 3

  1. My New Leica
  2. Broken Houses
  3. Sugru

2009 4

  1. Random thoughts on life
  2. Cork Photowalk, July 2009
  3. The Gallstones Diet
  4. Marketing Experiences from dualpricing.ie

2008 10

  1. Thoughts on Software Development as a Career
  2. Dual Pricing
  3. Continue reading →
  4. The Dip
  5. The Paradox of Choice
  6. Things I learnt during, and about, my PhD
  7. A Sick Child
  8. Non-hokum Baby Toy
  9. Learning to Walk (for the 3rd time)
  10. Norah

2006 3

  1. Moving on
  2. PhD Failure Rates
  3. Continue reading →

2005 1

  1. Confirmation that my PhD is hard enough