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The personal blog of Tim White, Software Engineer from Somerset, UK.

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2026 4

  1. People were always shitty
  2. Essays
  3. My recent woodworking projects
  4. No smoking gun

2024 2

  1. Why do people drop litter?
  2. Taste and Criticism: Appreciation for The Last of Us, Part 2

2023 3

  1. Comparing Player Stats
  2. Masters of our own destinies
  3. I hope I'm right (to be care-free) about AI

2022 6

  1. Resonance/Inspiration
  2. Embracing the heterodox
  3. Presence
  4. Some Quality Biases
  5. Constraint Breeds Creativity
  6. February

2021 5

  1. June
  2. Assumptions in Software
  3. Code and Context
  4. Tell people something new
  5. Code Age vs Time to Recall

2020 18

  1. Side Project Zen
  2. The illusion of technology
  3. Success is Relative (updated)
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, master of "Fake it 'til you make it"
  5. The impact of culture
  6. Substance in an increasingly superficial world
  7. The Last of Us: Part II
  8. Does more choice make software development easier?
  9. Marketing must be measurable
  10. Understanding problems
  11. Stupidity and Malice
  12. Building software, sharing knowledge
  13. Do the hard thing first
  14. Criticism and Candor
  15. Interest and Purpose
  16. "Nice" photographs
  17. A network-less world
  18. Distractions

2019 6

  1. In 2019, I continued to learn
  2. Grit
  3. Recurrence in PHP
  4. Diet
  5. Reflections on Startup School 2019
  6. Running

2017 2

  1. Success
  2. Lessons from side projects

2015 4

  1. A few notes before turning 21
  2. My first VR experience
  3. One week with NYTimes: Paying out of appreciation
  4. Finding purpose in side projects