First week at Meta complete. Yes, really. This old dog, born long before the iPhone and social media, has joined the Kool Kids and will be “building the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.”
Read on for why I made the jump from Docusign and for my first impressions of Meta.
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My last day at Docusign is fast approaching, and what an experience it has been!
Let me take you back to January 2021: the UK is still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic, Christmas has just been “cancelled” for many, and pubs are closed. It doesn’t get much more serious than that!
Continue reading “What is that over there?”I spent last week at Docusign Seattle, welcoming our new colleagues from Lexion and working with engineers from our teams from across Prepare, Commit and Manage on agreement data definition and management. Great progress on all fronts – customer focused innovation!
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The past couple of days I’ve been learning Zig, a relatively new low-level programming language, described by its creator as “a DSL for assembly”, and a potential successor to C.
Continue reading “Zig Programming — Trial by JSON”I think remote work is a powerful tool to implement 15 minute cities which will bring wide ranging societal, ecological and health benefits.
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This weekend I started re-reading one of my favourite technical books, “Data Processing” by K.N. Dodd. It’s a slim volume, published in 1969 by The English Universities Press. I picked up my beautifully musty copy in a second-hand bookshop in March 1995. It is a profoundly practical book (at least in 1969!), which educates the reader on the “state-of-the-art” of The Modern Computer, as well as elaborating on business applications:
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50 years ago the Prolog programming language was created in France (where else?), by Alain Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel. The name comes from programmation en logique. The first implementation of Prolog was an interpreter written in Fortran by Gerard Battani and Henri Meloni.
Continue reading “Programming with Logic”For the past several months my mental state seems to be more Schrödinger than Newton, resisting serious observation, and oscillating wildly between euphoria, guilt, outrage, depression, anxiety, frustration, and all states in-between. The most palpable side-effect has been loss of concentration; with the incessant drip, drip, drip of 24-hour news and social media causing my brain to fizz from one emotion to the next, almost at random.
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As CTO for Clause Inc. I breathe the rarified air of blockchain, AI, IoT, and Legal-Tech (joke). Seriously, I do read quite widely, so in time-honored fashion, here are my predictions for 2018.
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Innovation That Matters 