… and Twitter jumps the shark

Over the past few weeks it seems that Twitter has been moving to drastically redefine what the service is about. Moving to limit API connections and placing restrictions on how third parties interface with it. This has limited the usefulness of third party tools that others love and risks damaging the ecosystem that has built […]

Marcus Povey

Over the past few weeks it seems that Twitter has been moving to drastically redefine what the service is about. Moving to limit API connections and placing restrictions on how third parties interface with it. This has limited the usefulness of third party tools that others love and risks damaging the ecosystem that has built […]

Raspberry Pi: First boot

It has been a few weeks since I finally received my Raspberry Pi, but up until today I have been too busy to play with it. This changed today when I finally installed a boot image on a 4GB SD card, wired up the tiny little circuit board to the TV and connected the power. […]

Marcus Povey

It has been a few weeks since I finally received my Raspberry Pi, but up until today I have been too busy to play with it. This changed today when I finally installed a boot image on a 4GB SD card, wired up the tiny little circuit board to the TV and connected the power. […]

I almost certainly won’t sign your NDA, here’s why…

tl;dr: Most NDAs in are harmful to my business and most importantly bad for my clients. Please don’t take offence if I don’t sign yours. Like many others who work in freelance software development I am frequently asked to sign NDAs. As with employment contracts, these are seen by many as a formality and the […]

Marcus Povey

tl;dr: Most NDAs in are harmful to my business and most importantly bad for my clients. Please don’t take offence if I don’t sign yours. Like many others who work in freelance software development I am frequently asked to sign NDAs. As with employment contracts, these are seen by many as a formality and the […]