OneAndOneIs2

tl;dr: How I went from being too weak to get out of bed, to being the strongest I've been in my life, in six months. I'm 36 years old. I have been in pain every single day for more than half my life. In my teens, it was backache. Not severe, not e… more »

At the end of last year, I came to a decision - I needed a change of job. Long-time readers might remember that the last time I felt like a change, I quit the pharmaceutical industry, retrained as a teacher, threw that in too and went travelling roun… more »

The trouble with the human brain is, like Haskell, it makes a virtue out of laziness. It doesn't want to put any effort into remembering boring, unnecessary things. So if something seems unimportant, it gets lost. And if it's easier to remember where… more »

There I was, sitting down and browsing Hacker News via my tablet from the sofa at the end of a long day. And then my housemate asks me to play a video on my PC. A common occurrence - a bit of background noise is nice in our otherwise-very-quiet house… more »

If you're a command-line devotee, you'll be aware of tab-completion. And if you're a git user, I really hope you're aware that it comes with its own tab completion files, which allows it to auto-complete not just commands, but branch names and other… more »