Blogs Posts by Nick McHardy

Welcome to my blog, where I cover tech, games and whatever else that’s interesting in the universe like vinyl, fusion jazz and side projects.

This website is inspired by the web of the late 90s - no, not just the style of the site - but also harking back to a time when people would set up websites (probably on Geocities or similar) and write about anything that interested them. Most of the websites looked terrible (my first few sites were no exception) but it was so liberating having your own site. So here’s my modern-day version of that late 90s vibe.

Not sure where to start? Here are some blogs to get you started:

Learning About Leadership Episode 1 (May ‘20)
The Humble Minidisc (Aug ‘18)
Why the Sega Dreamcast is the Best Console of All Time (Aug ‘18)
Common Website Vulnerability Scans Found in Logs (Apr ‘18)
On Being an Engineering Manager (Feb ‘19)

There’s also a 🍊 Garden Diary to check out. It’s sometimes updated as the seasons change.

Latest Posts

Detective Conan: Episode One - The Great Detective Turned Small - Review

📅 Posted 2020-09-10 (2 minute read)

Here’s the last of my “speed dating” movie reviews, mostly gathered from a trip to Europe via Taiwan in 2019. Yes, it’s taken me a little while to finish this one off 😀 Detective Conan: Episode One - The Great Detective Turned Small Japan (2016) 7.3 on IMDB I had friends who were madly into Detective Conan during uni and I did always wonder what the fuss was about, but at the time I was pretty much at the end of my anime obsession so I didn’t take the time to get into it.

Super Simple SEO Guide

📅 Posted 2020-09-03 (4 minute read)

Here’s a quick guide on a few things I recently did on a site to try and get a bit more search engine traffic. SEO, it’s a great iso-activity during lockdown! SEO - Search Engine Optimisation - is often a bit of a dark art: trying to outsmart the spammers and your competition, one ‘fake’ blog at a time. It’s tricky. There are a lot of dodgy players and it’s really difficult to be sure you’re having a positive impact on your site.

What if machine learning is ubiquitous as email?

📅 Posted 2020-08-26 (6 minute read)

Everyone uses email. It kinda works, but it’s super janky and would never take off if someone came up with the idea today. Somehow, we just put up with it. Typical IT roles which design, build and support email systems could include IT Support Analyst, Messaging Engineer, Messaging SME, Solution Architect or IT Systems Administrator. Typical marketing roles which design, build and support email marketing campaigns include Campaign Manager, Marketing Manager CRM Marketing Specialist, Marketing Automation Specialist, Digital Marketing Specialist.

2020 Goals, a Progress Update

📅 Posted 2020-08-20 (3 minute read)

So back in March I wrote out some of my goals for 2020 and I figured it’s been almost 6 months, so let’s see how I’m tracking. COVID-19 had already rolled around by March, although it’s full impact wasn’t quite felt yet at that point. Maybe it’s still not quite there yet, but we’re all getting pretty used to being locked down and/or restricted and generally working from home where-possible.

Long Live the Web

📅 Posted 2020-08-11 (11 minute read)

The web is rad. Well, it has been for a long time. But maybe the web is changing. As a user of a web browser, who spends a lot of time reading websites and publishing things on the web (maybe that few people read, ha!), these are my thoughts about the web as it is today. I’ve been mucking around with the web since about 1996, when I built my first website with too much liberal use of Photoshop airbrush and a bit of Notepad.

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