Today we’re running another of our pop-up conferences at work, called Patchwork. We’ve been running these roughly twice a year for the past 5 years, and they’re alway great fun. Patchwork invites colleagues to come speak for 20 minutes about “anything they’re interested in, or have found interesting”. This makes... [Read More]

/dev/journal: I had the chance to catch up with one of our recent graduate hires today, and during a very interesting conversation we got to talking about whether I had any advice to share with my young colleague. I did. [Read More]

Now that teaching has started for this term, I find myself switching between my work and university Zoom accounts quite frequently. They both use SSO (single sign-on) for authentication, and unfortunately the Zoom client handles this use-case quite poorly. Here I’ve tried to describe the problem and document some workarounds.... [Read More]