Blog
Posts about life, engineering management, the web industry, and things that I've been up to
2018
Thinking about permissions on the web
27 September 2018
A collection of musings on the topic of web permissions, and the kind of questions that we should be asking for the future.
24 August 2018
Since the beginning of this year I've been taking my Japanese learning a lot more seriously. Having been asked about it by quite a few people, this post is intended to summarise my journey so far.
Japan, January '18 (part two) - EVO
9 February 2018
This is the second post in a two-part series, capturing my latest trip over to Japan. In this post I'll be talking about the main reason for our visit - EVO.
Japan, January '18 (part one) - Tokyo, snow, and skiing
9 February 2018
In January I headed back to Japan, jumping on the opportunity to spend more time in a country that I love. The trip was prompted by my husband competing at EVO Japan 2018, but ended up being so much more. In these two posts I'll talk about the trip in general, and the event itself.
2017
30 December 2017
Another end of a year means another time to look back, but also to look forward. As they usually do, 2017 has had both extreme highs and lows, as well as plenty in the middle.
Starting out with neural networks
24 November 2017
In this post I'll talk about the process I went through when starting to explore the strange and wonderful world of recurrent neural networks
Improving the discoverability and usability of open sports and physical activity opportunity data
1 November 2017
I wrote recently about how we’re working towards redesigning and redeveloping the OpenActive website (our redesign/development tender is currently open). As part of this we’re looking at people’s experiences of using open opportunity data, and how we can better support this by improving the data’s discoverability and usability.
Redeveloping the OpenActive website
13 October 2017
We’ve started the process of redesigning and redeveloping the OpenActive website, and as part of trying to do this openly we’d like to ask for your initial thoughts.
Render Conference – Being a keynote speaker and MC
18 April 2017
Render Conference is a two day, single track conference held in the beautiful city of Oxford, which is billed as a conference for front-end developers but actually manages to pack in so much more.