Rainy Sundays

Rich Gwilliam's digital shed

Skills section

12:00 Tue 16 Sep 2025

<p>Skills section screenshot</p>

I've been working on a new feature - I know that scanning CVs must be pretty tedious for recruiters and clients both, so I've put together a searchable tag cloud of all the various skills I've seen requested that I'm able to fulfil.  

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<p>Politician holds up a baby as a political football</p>

There's a lot being said about the UK's Online Safety Act.  Labour Party leadership reckon it's an essential step in safeguarding children online.  Others say it does nothing of the sort and is either clueless or despicably cynical.  For the love of god, won't someone think about the children?  And specifically, about what this act is doing for them?

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Sleeping With the EnemAI

12:00 Sun 17 Aug 2025

<p>Programmer being buried under a mountain of bug reports pouring forth from Robbie the Robot</p>

I was experimenting with an AI-based development tool recently and spent most of the time really impressed.  

Most.  

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The Elaiphant In The Room

12:00 Sun 02 Feb 2025

<p>A robot elephant stands conspicuously in a deserted office space.&nbsp; Image created using AI.</p>

It's been hanging about for the past eighteen months or so. If you can consider something to be a room-elephant when people are actively asking you if you can... train an elephant for their company, I suppose. And also work out how the elephant applies to their business because to be honest, they're not that sure what elephants can do - just that elephants are the future, and it's vitally important that they stuff their organization with as many as possible.

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This is what I'm calling my "digital shed" which is to say it mostly just exists to hold tools and gizmos. There's a lot going on under the hood, providing functionality that... hopefully you'll never see, but please do feel free to meander around and I'll try and curate some stuff that's worth the visit.

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