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Come and see Find My Tea pitch to SyncNorwich on 23 November 2021

  What: Startup Pitches #12 - Find My Tea, Greenr, Scoop & Yakbit When: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 @ 6:00pm Where: Access Creative College, 114 Magdalen Street, Norwich How much: Free RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/syncnorwich/events/281757681/ Agenda 6.00pm - Arrivals & Networking with Pizza & Beer 6.15pm - Intro 6.30pm - PITCH 1: Find My Tea 6.40pm - PITCH 2: Greenr 6.50pm - PITCH 3: Scoop 7.00pm - PITCH 4: Yakbit 7.10pm - Q&A 7.30pm - Vote for Best Pitch 7.45pm - Networking & Quick Drink 8.00pm - Close PITCH 1: Find My Tea Tea made simple Whether you're looking for loose leaves or tea bags to take home, or a cafe to unwind in with your favourite blend – it's easy. Simply type in your location or postcode, and you'll soon be able to find the shop or cafe serving the tea that touches your tastebuds. Simple. https://findmytea.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/FindMyTea Speaker Paul Grenyer is a husband, father, software engineer, metaller, Paul has been writ

PG Webhooks Tool (beta) - I want your feedback!

PG Webhooks Tool https://pg-webhooks.herokuapp.com/ PG Webhooks is a tool designed to help with the testing of webhooks. It allows you to receive and view messages from a webhook until you're ready to setup the server which will receive the real webhooks for your application. Register the URL uniquely generated for you by PG Webhooks with your webhook. Fire the webhook and see the messages appear. Select each message to see the details, including the body and header. PG Webhooks sits on a free Heroku instance so may take a few moments to start the first time you use it. It is backed by a non-persistent Redis database, so your messages are only stored temporarily. PG Webhooks beta is very much a prototype and has plenty of rough edges. I would appreciate any feedback in the comments below. 

New Profile: Written for a talk on 'Entrepreneurship'

Husband, father, software engineer, metaller, Paul has been writing software for over 35 years and professionally for more than 20. In that time he has worked for and in all sorts of companies from two man startups to world famous investment banks and insurance companies. He has built and run three limited companies, none of which made him a millionaire and two of which threatened his sanity on more than one occasion. Paul was a founding member of both SyncNorwich and Norfolk Developers , two of the most successful tech and startup based community groups in the East. He created and chaired the hugely successful Norfolk Developers Conference (nor(DEV):con) for seven years bringing in speakers and delegates in the sphere of software engineering from around the globe. Paul is currently a Senior Platform Engineer at the Fintech startup Snoop and the founder of the tea finding app, Find My Tea . He loathes the word Entrepreneur, not least because he struggles to spell it and it reminds

A Review of Absolution Gap: Ignore the naysayers. Read this book. Love this book.

Alastair Reynolds ISBN-13 : 978-0575083165 I re-read Absolution Gap a decade or more after the first time in anticipation of the next part coming out in July of this year (2021). It was always the weakest of the trilogy, but not nearly as bad as I remember. In fact this time I devoured it in a relatively, for me, short period of time. It’s true, as some other reviewers have said, that the story here could have been told in far fewer words, but then much of the texture of the story telling would have been lost and I think this is what makes this such a great book! The characters and themes are believable in this universe. I think the story could have been very different if certain characters had not been killed off so early or at all. It’s always a shame when a lot of the main thrust of a previous book (Redemption Ark) is undone, but this is often how things play out in the real world. I achieved what I wanted by re-reading Absolution Gap, I’m up to speed ready for the next instalment.

Red Rebel Day: Did you know that 1 in 10 women can’t afford sanitary protection?

When Neelam Sultan  asked me to support RedRebelDay  I was keen to do what I could. It’s what you do when someone asks. It’s what I like to do when someone asks. Then I attended the ‘ambassadors’ briefing, where a heavy emphasis was put on telling people what Period Poverty means to you. As a man this was quite daunting, especially as until recently the subject was still quite taboo for me. Especially as at least one of my former employees took great delight, and still does, in telling me when she had her period just to see the uncomfortable look on my face. What got me over it? Attending a Zoom call with 100+ women and a handful of men who were all talking very openly about periods and the problems 1 in 10 women face in affording sanitary protection. Beyond the facts, that still didn’t help me understand what Period Poverty really means, let alone what it means to me. Then someone on the call described not being able to go to work or go to school or about your everyday life for a few

New Podcast: The Worse They Can Say is 'No'

  I'm delighted to be featured in a new podcast, talking about Snoop , Norfolk Developers and of course, Find My Tea : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMo0GGIjFco

A review: Permafrost

  Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds ASIN : B07HF26D1H Alistair Reynolds continues his run of form with this fantastic novella, Permafrost. One of the things I love most about Reynold’s Revelation Space series is how the stories flip between different times. For me this is one of the biggest and best parts of weaving a space opera, and it’s in abundance in Permafrost. I’m still in two minds about whether I enjoy first person writing though, I’m definitely more of a fan of third person. However, first person worked well here. Novellas, by their very nature are short, which means the character building is fast and the stories are fast paced too. I really enjoyed that aspect of Permafrost. Given that the story is based on the effects of climate change, as well as time travel, I was concerned it would be over the top, but it actually describes brilliantly and concisely the effects of climate change and how they form the bedrock for the story. Then Reynolds moves on and concentrates on the sto