One environmental issue that needs more attention and action from the global community is plastic pollution. Plastic pollution poses a significant threat to our ecosystems, wildlife, and human health. Every year, millions of metric tons of plastic waste end up in our oceans, rivers, and landfills, causing severe environmental damage.

There are several places where you can find datasets related to nature and conservation: GBIF — The Global Biodiversity Information Facility provides free and open access to biodiversity data, including species occurrence data, taxonomy, and geographic distribution. http://Data.gov — The U.S. government’s open data portal provides access to a variety…

A consolidation of OMM OKR training material & books I’ve enjoyed in 2022; bibliography available. — This set of notes should serve as a brief overview of Objectives and Key Results fundamentals, whether you’re new to the topic or topping up knowledge ahead of setting your own fresh goals. …

Use a lot of issue links in your project? We do at AstraZeneca. — Sharing this JQL as a timesaving toptip bestpractice for anybody operating within the complexity of multi-sponsor demand environments: issueFunction in linkedIssuesOfAll(subQuery, relationType) Read the docs at scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/5.5.8/jira/jql-functions.html I am hoping to find time to write a series of articles about Demand Quality and ways in which my tech teams have…

Ulaanbaatar looks like a word signalling the start of a fantasy novella; in fact it’s the capital of Mongolia. I remember learning this from a cryptic clue: “Banal tour around capital” (9) The first two words form a pair that feels too strange to be useful: what sort of tour…

Tim Ferris recommended this in a 5-Bullet Friday, with a firm warning not to read or seek out any blurbs & previews as to its content. My ears were pricked and I began enjoying in July 2021. With that warning in mind I won’t go into any detail on its…

In composing, arranging, recording, mixing, and mastering music, there are certain processes that repeat ad infinitum in some fairly consistent ways, with clear time-saving potential especially over the timescales (months & years) that it can take to create a long-playing album. Since my first visit to a studio I’ve been…

One of the greatest adventures of our time is the modernising and digitising of national tax systems. …

Almost all the 19 Xamarin tutorials currently available from Microsoft via MSLearn end in something fairly basic; for instance the keypad-translation app which lets you type a phone number and get back the word value: In theory, by the time you’ve followed the steps of each tutorial, you should have…