Ideas Which Changed My Perspective Unknown Unknowns; or “Men Don’t Have Interesting and Varied Friendships” This idea differs from the others in this series, because I disagree with it. Strongly. I might even go so far as to say that I was offended by it, initially. Getting offended is rarely constructive, though, and in the end it made me stop and think. It also differs
Ideas Which Changed My Perspective The Shocking Truth About Schrodinger’s Cat Another idea which changed my perspective, and this one still haunts me. It’s split across two different sources which I read in succession. Furthermore, because it pertains to quantum mechanics, it’s going to take me a little while, and two excerpts, to explain. The first is from Neal
Ideas Which Changed My Perspective Shermer's Last Law The Laundry Files [https://amzn.to/2I6DzbL] is a book series which includes several subjects which are guaranteed to draw my interest, especially when combined: * Computer related stuff; * Espionage type stuff; * Lovecraftey [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft] stuff. They’re very fun, but if I’m being
Ideas Which Changed My Perspective Dr John and Fat Tony Continuing my short series on ideas which changed my perspective with a alternative approach to a tossed coin from a slightly controversial author.
Ideas Which Changed My Perspective Platypus Categorisation Part one of short series of posts on ideas which have changed my perspective one way or another. Starting with something which massively changed the way I look at systems of categorisation.
Blogger Suddenly, a Wild “Now” Page Appears A short explanation of the new “Now” page which has appeared in the site menu.
Blogger A Short Word About GDPR How this site will be handling changes required by the GDPR. Plus an aside regarding targeting types in Google AdSense.
Blogger I Ain’t Dead In which I make the case that I haven’t entirely been sitting on my hands when it comes to writing for the web. Also: pontifications on the differences between Ghost and Wordpress.
Blogger International Men’s Day As promised back in my International Women’s Day post [https://harveynick.com/2017/03/08/international-womens-day/], I’m now writing about its counterpart. International Men’s Day is the day I’m posting this: the 19th of November. As noted in the previous post: some people would say that
Blogger Blogging on the Quartz Curve A little while ago, over dinner, a good friend of mine introduced me to something called the “Quartz Curve”. Named for the online news magazine which coined it, it goes like this: if you plot the length of an article against user engagement, the resulting graph is bowl shaped. Specifically,
Blogger Mostly an iPad Followup Somewhat appropriately, I finished and edited my previous post about switching to an iPad for many of my computing use cases [https://harveynick.com/2017/07/30/thinking-about-going-ipad-mostly/] on an iPad. Luckily I have access to one which belongs to my employer and happens to be running the iOS 11
Blogger Thinking About Going iPad... Mostly Going “iPad only” is all the rage in some circles. I don't think it would really work for me. iOS still has too many limitations for that. But I do like the idea of using an iPad as my main “carry around” machine. Right now I use a
Blogger Should Have Paid for the Delivery, or: Value Your Time Just before the weekend I realised I needed a few items from Ikea at fairly short notice. Nothing complicated. A rug and some rails of the sort kitchen utensils dangle from. My in-progress kitchen would definitely remain in-progress without the latter. The obvious solution was the usual online shopping and
Hacker WWDC Predications Score Card Having made a point of making some WWDC predictions in my last post [http://harveynick.com/2017/06/04/yet-another-rambling-wwdc-predications-post/], it seems only right that I should look back at them after the fact and see how I did. I'd also like to talk about a couple of
Blogger International Women's Day I'm going to interrupt the regularly scheduled (ish) programming in order to talk about something topical. If you're reading this on the day it's published, today is International Women's Day. In the grander scheme of things, we shouldn't really need
Hacker Building My Shiny New Website Part 3: Tech Stack This will be my last post on building the new implementation of this site. Having previously talked about the choice of platform [http://harveynick.com/2016/10/16/building-my-shiny-new-website-part-1-platform/] and the theme [http://harveynick.com/2017/01/15/building-my-shiny-new-website-part-2-theme/], I’m now going on a quick dive into all of
Blogger Goals for 2017 I don’t really do new years resolutions. They just don’t seem to work for me. I don’t see that there’s anything that special about January 1st. It isn’t even the first day of the year for a reasonable portion of the planet. Expecting to make
Blogger Building my Shiny New Website Part 2: Theme I built the theme of the previous Jekyll based incarnation of this site myself. If I’m entirely honest I made a bit of hash of it. I just hacked the default Jekyll layout around a bit and slotted in some colours I though might look reasonable. They did not,
Blogger Building my Shiny New Website Part 1: Platform This is a post which has been a long time coming. I’ve been planning it since I started building the new version of this site, which is coming up on over a year ago now. Step one was to choose the platform. Having used Wordpress [https://wordpress.org] before,
Blogger What's Changed? Well, I went quiet again, didn't I? While I've been away it feels like the world changed quite a bit. For starters, from an entirely personal perspective, I moved flats and areas of London. A transaction which completed on the 24th of June, 2016. If this
Blogger Getting Back on the Horse(s) Last year, around August, I fell off two horses, more or less simultaneously. Metaphorical horses, much as I would love to say that failing to straddle two galloping steeds is the reason that I ended up skipping the gym for six months. One of those horses was training, the other
Blogger Why HarveyNick? So. HarveyNick.com is the name of this website. It's also my Twitter handle, and my username or moniker on Hacker News and various other sites. Sometimes it's not available and I end up using something like "TheRealHarveyNick", or I just don't
Blogger New Blog! Well. This has taken a little while. After trying out just about all of the options I mentioned in a previous post [/2014/04/27/is-it-that-time-again/] I decided that most were still a little on the under baked side. As fun as it can be to be on the bleeding
Blogger Is it Time to Change Blogs Again? So you may have noticed that it's been a little quiet around here as of late. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, I've been stupidly busy with work and the amount of... faff involved with adding a new post using Octopress [http://octopress.org]
Blogger Some Thoughts on Gamification If you're playing any sort of a game, the question "Am I winning?" is usually quite easy to answer. "Is my score higher than the other guy?" usually covers it (though if you're playing something like chess it might be a little
