This morning I spun up a Wiki.js site on Digital Ocean with a view of extracting some of the better content from Reddit to help people looking to donate time or money to help the Ukraninan people defend themselves from invasion. In trying to draw… Read More »Where Did The Ukraine Wiki Go?
Today on the podcast I tried something different after being approach by a junior developer, Josh Brearly, who is currently working his way through his training with Code Nation. In this episode, Josh and I discuss the state of the tech market and what took… Read More »Josh Brearley of Code Nation
In this episode I chat with the Business Director of The Social Chain, Ben Harris. Ben had a load of experience for a bigger media company but joined The Social Chain with a view of taking a more hands-on role and as Social Chain have… Read More »Ben Harris of Social Chain
Justin Gilchrist and I first became acquainted when I approached him after discovering his work online. Justin has been well-known in the world of buying and selling digital assets, specifically websites for many years and I was delighted to learn that he lived just a… Read More »Justin Gilchrist of Wellbox
Dr. Abiodun Yusuf is a founding member of Qalhatta Technology, who specialist in data analysis and are based here in Manchester. Abiodun, took a non-standard route into a career (and subsequently business ownership) in technology that you don’t see every day. After studying a Master’s… Read More »Dr. Abiodun Yusuf of Qalhata Technology
Since starting the podcast, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of permanent developers who’ve contacted me and shown an interest in getting into contracting themselves. Contracting has suited me incredibly well for a wide variety of reasons…not simply because of the juicy day rates.… Read More »Lee Mason of Masetech
Money Supermarket are one of the UK’s leading technology businesses and continue to go from strength-to-strength. I’ve been keen to record with them as they are a major entity within the Manchester technology community, having moved their head office here from Chester a few years… Read More »Rob Bowley of Money Supermarket
In this episode, Chris and I chat about his background in technology and music entrepreneurship, with specific attention paid to his current project, Hyperlaunch. Chris explains about the extent to which he feels the music and technology industries overlap and goes into some detail about… Read More »Chris Garret of Hyperlaunch
Chris Thacker left Money Supermarket to become CTO of Mojo Mortgages, a new business setup to disrupt the mortgage market. Chris chats about his reasons for taking the role and how his life has changed shifting gears into a more-senior position at a smaller organisation.… Read More »Chris Thacker of Mojo Mortgages
I first worked with Wez on a project back in 2016 before our paths crossed again during my time at Booking.com. Since we left Booking.com, Wez and I worked together briefly again at Co-op before he and Bayo joined forces to work on Peer Pioneers,… Read More »Wez Pyke & Bayo Jide of Peer Pioneers