Will RC
Will RC
I’m Will. For over a decade I’ve worked in technology and tech transformation across charities and social enterprises, healthcare, and in education. Welcome to my site. I mainly use this as a place to write out my (mostly tech-based) thoughts. I'm a firm believer that technology should be easier to understand for everyone, and this little corner of the internet is my way of trying to do that.
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I had a thought, actually while reading Shubham Bose’s The 49MB Web Page, about my use of RSS. The most radical thing you can do is refuse to be extracted. Close the tab. Use RSS. Let the bounce rate speak for itself. These are vanity metrics until enough people stop vanishing into them and then suddenly they become...
I had a thought, actually while reading Shubham Bose's The 49MB Web Page, about my use of RSS. The most radical thing you can do is refuse to be extracted. Close the tab. Use RSS. Let the bounce rate speak for itself. These are vanity metrics until enough people stop vanishing into them and then suddenly they become...
I might have mentioned once or twice that I use Obsidian. One of the fantastic things about it, is the plethora of Community Plugins you can install to get your productivity setup just right. The thing is, it's a bit of a double edged sword. After years of Obsidian being my second brain, I'd amassed quite a few...
I might have mentioned once or twice that I use Obsidian. One of the fantastic things about it, is the plethora of Community Plugins you can install to get your productivity setup just right. The thing is, it’s a bit of a double edged sword. After years of Obsidian being my second brain, I’d amassed quite a few...
I loved reading this post from Mat Duggan about the continuing rise of Markdown as a way of creating content. A couple of paragraphs of his that really stood out to me: And none of that [the fact that Markdown doesn’t inherently allow for stylistic changes - margin sizes, watermarks, etc] mattered, because it turns...
I don’t know if it’s just because I watched Louis Theroux’s manosphere documentary last night and am feeling particularly despondent about the state of the post-truth world we live in, but I was scrolling through my RSS feed on the way home from work today and it was depressing. To clarify, I subscribe to the Full...
I’m still trying to work out how I feel about this, so come on the journey with me… I work in the UK charity sector, and something I’ve been playing over in my mind the last couple of weeks is the OpenAI / Anthropic (ChatGPT/Claude) debate. Within a lot of organisations in the sector, the idea that OpenAI would...
About as good a summation on the state of social media as I’ve read anywhere, there’s a lot that stuck with me from Technically Good’s post. But the bit that I’ve been turning over in my head was the explanation of network effects and switching costs. Speaking of the inherent “cost” of leaving one social media...
The other day my Google Pixel 8 Pro just decided that neither Bluetooth nor WiFi were things it needed anymore. Apparently it’s a common issue with Pixel handsets. In any case, it put a real damper on the phone’s usefulness to me. I was loathed to drop money on a brand new handset, so instead used my insurance to...
I redid my website recently. I wanted quick and simple, so I used Bootstrap as the framework to throw it together. Bootstrap is great, I love it. I’ve used it on countless projects and I know what I’m getting and how to make it work. But for a site like this, it is overkill. Think less sledgehammer to crack a...
One thing I’ve realised as I write more is that I write too much. Specifically I mean, when it comes to blogging, I have a tendency to try and say too many things in one post. Recently I talked about a podcast on VPNs that I’d listened to. One part of it annoyed me, and a few hours later I’d written a 3,000 word...
I read this short post from the folkmoss over on Bear Blog the other day, and the sentiment really stuck with me. It’s not the internet you hate, it’s social media. The internet is awesome. It’s true - at least I think so. And it’s a trap I’ve fallen down hard recently. So much of the way we interact with the...
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