Writer, software engineer, author of Human Software. Thinking about the humans behind the systems.
Human Software 277 - Amazon E-Book Preorders are NOW LIVE
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Special announcement! Human Software: A Life in I.T. the novel is now available on Amazon for pre-order. If you would like to pre-order and have it available immediately on your Kindle on release next Thursday 25th September then you can pre-order here. The paperback version will be published around the same time, September 26th-27th. Unfortunately Amazon does not allow pre-orders for physical books plus availability online is within a 72 hour period from publication - so watch this space for updates! I'll also be announcing the availability on Leanpub and through other channels in due course. Coming soon I'll also be announcing details of a competition to receive a physical copy of the book along with some of these brilliant bookmarks. Thank you and have a great Wednesday! Your very excitable friend, |
The Human Engineer
Writer, software engineer, author of Human Software. Thinking about the humans behind the systems.
The After (at the back) I finally headed back to work this week. Over the last few months, I've often felt like I was going around in the circles and that, in fact, was quite close to the truth. I first posted on LinkedIn that I was "Open to Work" at the start of November it's taken about six months to land a new gig. Why so long? A few things. I'm older, there's AI, and it is a tough market but at the beginning I certainly had plenty of interest both from the network and from recruiters....
It's amazing how dependent we are on paperwork even in 2026. I spent a few hours this week printing forms, signing them, scanning them, uploading them. Automation has brought us so far ... and yet. I tried to use Claude to help me design some shelves above the washing machine and honestly it was easier just to use my own head. AI is sometimes an exhausting tool to use. One of those forms was for a new job — starting in a couple of weeks. More on that soon. The bigger news: Human Software has...
Conference season hit Amsterdam last month with the global juggernaut that is Kubecon but I eschewed the noise of that particular enormous techie event and went instead to the writer-friendly event "Stories Unfold" at Amsterdam's OBA theatre. This was a very pleasant evening giving a selection of self-published and traditionally published authors a stage to share the stories behind their books and also highlighted a new compilation of short stories. The audience was very much made up of...