2024

2024: The Year in Review

Next year is the third anniversary of this blog. But this year, after two and a half years of publishing weekly articles, I had to take a break. After a sojourn in developer relations and solutions engineering, this is also the year I returned to technical writing and contracting. My most high-profile gig this year was contributing to TheSpectrum, a retro console that has been a big hit with consumers. The big road trip this year was from Dingle to Bangor around the coast of Ireland. I’ve previously sailed from Galway to Dublin and Dublin to Bangor. So now I’ve seen the entire coast of Ireland and visited all 32 counties. At the end of the trip, I had a birthday ending in a zero, which I celebrated with a meal at the Wolff Grill in Belfast.

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2024: Predictions for the Year Ahead

This is my second go at making predictions for the year ahead. As with last year, I’m not going to make any predictions on geopolitics or the climate crisis and will confine myself to commenting on technology. Although with all the general elections taking place around the world, it will certainly be a year of change. But first, let’s take a look and see how I did on my predictions for 2023.

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