James Drever

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Data Support Officer at BSBI. Data, web, project management, digital transformation. Loves Herman Melville, meditation, nature, coffee. Sometimes loves technology and is passionate about using it intentionally.
CompanyCareful Digital
Company websitecareful.digital
Personal websitewww.jamesdrever.co.uk
James DreverJan 8, 2024
ICYI, I'm giving a talk in #Shrewsbury tomorrow (Unitarian church, starting 7.30pm), drawing on #meditation techniques and #neuroscience research, to help to reintroduce a sense of calm, curiosity, and creativity when you sit down in front of your computer to check your emails. Details at https://www.facebook.com/events/213721768473430/?ref=newsfeed&locale=en_GB
James DreverAug 17, 2023
Nature Memoir is changing fast as more of us feel the pressing need to share our experiences. My wife is delivering an online course for the Field Studies Council, ‘Writing Nature Memoir’, showing new writers of today how to record their experiences for the readers of tomorrow. More info at https://www.field-studies-council.org/courses-and-experiences/static-courses/writing-nature-memoir-online/
Writing Nature Memoir - Online

This intermediate online course will introduce you to writing nature memoir.

Field Studies Council
James DreverJun 5, 2023
This interview on the Fully Charged Show with Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, was really interesting - esp. on why existing car manufacturers have struggled to make good software & why Ford have bought digital expertise & code back in-house. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IhSWsQlaG8
The Man Behind The Best-Selling Truck In 50 Years - Ford CEO Jim Farley | The Fully Charged Podcast

YouTube
James DreverMay 16, 2023
One of the things I discovered when reading Carbon's brief article about #coffee and #climatechange is that drinking coffee without milk has a significantly lower impact. Also the impacts of the production and transportation can vary considerably. Wondering if anyone can recommend a good service for buying lower-impact coffee?
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/commodity-profile-coffee/
James DreverMay 15, 2023
If, like me, you love #Coffee and want to understand more about its impact on the #ClimateCrisis (and the impact of climate change on its production), this article is very helpful: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/commodity-profile-coffee/
James DreverApr 28, 2023
Charles RoperApr 28, 2023

New Richer Install UI for web apps. Very nice improvement to the #PWA UX on desktops.

https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/richer-install-ui-desktop/

Meanwhile, still desktop PWAs still firmly abandoned by @mozilla

Richer UI install available for desktop - Chrome Developers

Mobile devices and app stores have changed how users discover, evaluate, and install software. Web apps now offer a surface for developers to highlight their apps at install time.

Chrome Developers
James DreverApr 25, 2023
Interesting that we're all worrying about #AI becoming an autonomous entity that we can't control and isn't aligned to human values when we've had financial markets doing that stuff quite a while now.
James DreverApr 12, 2023
Jeremy KeithApr 12, 2023

This is how you advertise a role:

https://jobs.barnardos.org.uk/jobs/vacancy/senior-design-engineer-15534/16489/description/

* remote-friendly,
* a good cause,
* no frameworks mentioned,
* progressive enhancement!

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20074

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Barnardos Careers
James DreverApr 3, 2023
Charles RoperApr 3, 2023

If we had been routinely using PWAs instead of Electron, a great deal of time and money could have been saved avoiding this huge security breach.

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/c/information-on-attacks-involving-3cx-desktop-app.html

3CX CEO Nick Galea:

"We strongly recommend using our PWA client instead. It really does 99% of the client app and is fully web based and this type of thing can never happen."

https://www.3cx.com/community/threads/3cx-desktopapp-security-alert.119951/post-558907

cc @owa

Information on Attacks Involving 3CX Desktop App

In this blog entry, we provide technical details and analysis on the 3CX attacks as they happen. We also discuss available solutions which security teams can maximize for early detection and mitigate the impact of 3CX attacks.

Trend Micro
James DreverApr 3, 2023
Charles RoperApr 3, 2023

Fellow #ADHD folk: how are you finding AI? It feels a lot like the assistive tech I never realised I needed to me.

Reading this article...

https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/how-to-use-ai-to-unstick-yourself

...I realised how getting blocked is so common for me, and how difficult it is to overcome because of procrastination. A tool to help me get unblocked quickly is like lightning in a bottle. It's incredible.

How to... use AI to unstick yourself

We often lose momentum because of something small. AI can help.

One Useful Thing