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Matt Hanley

Guitarist, snowboarder, motorbike rider, consumer of food, wanderer, and wonderer.

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Roadworn T

Something a bit more traditional and vintage-inspired this time round, and I wanted to go harder on the relic/played-in feel. The roasted pine body gives a really nice light weight and the thin satin nitro is polished to a shine in the high-wear areas as part of the road-worn

Supernova

Supernova was a long time in the making. A lot's happened since I started the build just shy of 11 months ago, and finally getting it finished feels like a significant achievement. The idea was to create an offset-bodied Novo-inspired instrument with a blend of features taken from

No, you're not at war.

Engineering Management

No, you're not at war.

I have a strong distaste for military or police metaphors in business. Heavy use of military verbiage from leadership sends the message that you're leading from a place of assumed authority rather than earned trust, a position that quickly erodes morale and engagement. With the current adverse market

How should we approach estimation when it comes to bugs?

Engineering Management

How should we approach estimation when it comes to bugs?

Priority bugs should take priority over planned sprints, and the sprint should be adjusted accordingly (i.e. backlog items removed and rescheduled) I recently updated our bug classification guide to include this statement about P1 bugs, which prompted the question: How should we approach estimation when it comes to bugs?

When should I start planning items in the sprint for new team members?

Engineering Management

When should I start planning items in the sprint for new team members?

At what point should I start planning tasks in a sprint for the newcomers on my team? Do you multiply with some coefficient when estimating their capacity? My approach to this is that new team members can be included in planning as soon as they've completed onboarding and

TT

Inspired by, and a tribute to late artist Trevor Tanser. This build was completed using some of Trevor's own hand tools. Specs 🇬🇧 Hand crafted in Somerset, UK. Body: Obeche, T-type, Long Beach Blue (BMW C16), double natural reveal bindings Neck: 9-piece multi-laminate: AA maple/roasted sycamore/smoked chestnut,

Maple, roasted sycamore, smoked chestnut

Maple, roasted sycamore, smoked chestnut

9-piece multi-laminate neck blank of AA maple with roasted sycamore stripes (utilising offcuts from One) bordered by smoked chestnut veneers. The central maple strip is reversed so the grain runs the opposite way to the outer strips, for additional stability.

Time for a new adventure

Time for a new adventure

One

Specs 🇬🇧 Hand crafted in the UK at the Crimson Guitars workshop, Dorchester Body: Spalted beech Neck: Roasted flamed sycamore maple, bolt-on Fretboard: Ebony, 12" radius Scale length: 25" Frets: 24, Jescar medium-jumbo, nickel Nut: Graph Tech TUSQ Inlays: Ebony in steel hollow dots, white side dots Tuners: Gotoh

Chepstow Park Wood, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Chepstow Park Wood, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Track Day Checklist

Track Day Checklist

Whether you're new to track or a track day veteran, rocking up without the right equipment can make a mess of your day.

Lems Shoes

I have super-wide feet (2E+), so finding shoes that actually fit is difficult – usually having to size up a whole, or even 1.5 sizes in "normal" shoes to accommodate the width of my hobbit feet. Most of the Lems range are designed around a wide toebox format

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Reef and Rainforest

Reef and Rainforest

Shots fired

Phobia

Brother Jon

This mug cake is moist.

This mug cake is moist.

Super simple microwave chocolate mug cake.

This banana cake won't change your life, but it's really really good.

This banana cake won't change your life, but it's really really good.

Literally the best banana cake I've had.

Limbo

Tunneling inter-host networking through a Docker Swarm Overlay network

Tunneling inter-host networking through a Docker Swarm Overlay network

Extending on Laurent Bernaille’s excellent 3-part deep dive series on Docker’s overlay networks I wanted to experiment with how we could utilise Docker’s overlay network to tunnel traffic between the nodes in a Swarm outside of the container environment, essentially treating the Overlay network as a mesh

MariaDB Galera in Docker: Persistent Storage and Automating the Bootstrapping Process

MariaDB Galera in Docker: Persistent Storage and Automating the Bootstrapping Process

⚠️Important Note I don’t recommend running this setup in a production environment — it’s an interesting prototype, but gives no control over the bootstrap process (it essentially relies on brute-forcing a race condition on container startup) which can lead to unreliable and unpredictable behaviour. Several months ago I was