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I’ve been fortunate in my life to be able to travel around a lot, both in the UK and the World. While growing up our family used to go camping a lot, later on we started to go abroad more.

Shamelessly stealing from Lewis Nymans great post I figured I’d do the same and blog about my 2015. Engagement! # December/January saw me get engaged to my partner Hannah, we’re set to get married this June which I’m looking forward to.

I’ve been looking for a release management tool for a while now. There are quite a lot of tools to do this but I just couldn’t get my head into writing XML for most of them.

After migrating my blog over to Sculpin I’ve slowly been tweaking things here and there. Over the past few days I’ve added the following: Static social media links to post titles Posted time ago on homepage Comment counts after read more link Gulp all the things It’s been quite a lot of fun adding all these features.

When I decided to leave my last job I had a lot of thoughts running through my head. I knew that moving to WunderUK would be a big change and challenge but I figured it was worth a shot.

After reading a lot of different docs for letsencrypt I couldn’t find an easy way of auto renewing my domains simply. So after I’ve compiled what I’ve found so far.

I’ve finally moved my blog from Ghost to Sculpin as you can probably see. It’s all flat file html now which is generated via jenkins. I’m glad to be working with Jenkins again since I never really got on with Bamboo.

It feels like it’s been ages since I last blogged. There are a few reasons for this: Moved house! # Finally did it! Me and Hannah moved into our lovely new house in Manchester.

I sent the following email to the CEO of Northern Rail this morning after over a month of frustrating commutes to work. Hi Alex, I’ve recently moved to Swinton in Manchester and I knew in advance that the area was serviced by Northern Rail so my expectations were lower than what I was used to on First Transpennine I wasn’t quite expecting it to be this bad.

I’m tired, I’m exhausted. I’m mentally fucked. I had my first “official” appraisal today and I still can’t shake the feeling that I’ve fucked up. That I’m not good enough and everything is my fault.