Some Personal News I’m Eggstatic to Share

15th Dec 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

I began this year as an apprentice in code, being incredibly lucky to be able to work with and learn from some of the most talented people in the industry. Prior to the apprenticeship, I’d been learning code as a hobby outside of work. Although I still do some coding as a hobby outside of […]

Three Lessons in Life, Writing, and Learning from Super Mario

10th Dec 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

1. Face Your Demons I’ve been having a tough time coming up with a topic to blog about this week. My informal weekly deadline of Wednesday has passed and, as I write, I’m not certain if or how this post will come to be. After sharing my sense of writer’s block with the lovely community […]

Corgis, Lost Lands, and Ryan Reynolds: A Story about Welsh and the Importance of Language

29th Nov 2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

A Nation with a Heart We have an old proverb here in Wales, “cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon”. That is, “a nation without a language is a nation without a heart”. And Wales is a nation that almost lost its language. In 1847, Wales was in a state of social unrest. That unrest had […]