Norman Fucking Rockwell!
It's me, your little Venice bitch.…
Around three years months ago, I wrote a blog post [https://blog.qassim.uk/two-weeks-quarantined-wfh/] about my experiences of the first couple of weeks in quarantine and working from home full time. It can be summarised as: I expected it to be easy, it wasn't. I thought I'd follow that…
Twitter Auto Delete - Github - qassim [https://github.com/qassim/twitter-auto-delete] Update - 17/10/2020 I have pushed an update to the repository which adds the following: * Automatically archive deleted tweet data before deleting it * Archiving happens to a bucket that is created as part of the SAM…
It has been nearly two weeks since my employer (BBC, Design + Engineering) asked us to work from home due to the on-going coronavirus pandemic. The experience has been somewhat mixed and surprising and I thought, given I'm stuck at home alone and bored, I'd write about it! Expectations I'm no…
It's me, your little Venice bitch.…
This year, 2018, marked 10 years since I left school, it doesn't feel that long ago and it's quite scary. This isn't something I mentally took any note of, it wasn't something I was counting down to, it didn't stand out to me as a notable moment whatsoever. But looking…
There's this narrative building in the video game industry about Valve and Steam, and it's quite an odd one. That because it's the largest PC game platform, it somehow doesn't deserve its position, or even more stupidly that it is a 'monopoly'. People seem to assume that the smaller players…
Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) is genuinely a milestone for the games industry, it will be a game that is looked back on as one that raised the bar in a fair few important ways. Personally, however, I'm still not sure what I think of it. It's definitely very good…
As I explained in my post about the Bang & Olufsen H6s [https://blog.qassim.uk/2017/11/14/bang-olufsen-h6-2nd-generation/], I'm not an audiophile, I don't know what I'm talking about - so take everything you read here with a pinch of salt. But I bought another pair of headphones, in…