Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life
The Rubaiyat
red-route.org is the personal website of Malcolm Young.
Bolting the stable door with barriers on bridges, bins and bike lanes
12 August, 2017Tags
After the recent terrorist attack at London Bridge, safety barriers appeared, as if by magic, on the bridges over the Thames. Protecting…
Learning to Lead, Learning to Listen
26 June, 2017Tags
Reporting from the Lead Developer conference London 2017
Red lights at night, cyclist's delight? Overthinking the ethics of cycling again
18 June, 2017Tags
On the moral dilemma facing a cyclist at an empty set of traffic lights in the middle of the night.
A blurry look into the future
21 March, 2017Tags
A tour of the London lab of Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange
Why is it more expensive to be poor?
21 March, 2017Like many British people, I’m mildly obsessed with the class system. But something we don’t talk about enough is the paradox that having…
More haste, less speed
21 February, 2017Tags
Why developers might need to slow down when their project is behind schedule.
On worth, and what it says about our values
07 February, 2017For a long time, it’s annoyed me when people talk about somebody being “worth” a certain amount of money. I know that I’m a pedant, but this…
You're always missing out on something
05 February, 2017Tags
People often say that life is short, but they’re usually wrong. Life (for most people) is pretty long, but in order to be able to do what we…
Do you really need Drupal for that? How to choose the right technology for your project
29 January, 2017Tags
We’re moving house soon, and we’re planning to rent out the flat we live in now. We could use an estate agent, and get the flat up on all…
The right way to do things wrong - how to make mistakes successfully
22 January, 2017Tags
A few years ago, following an overnight deployment, I managed to delete a large proportion of the content on a client’s website. There are…