Developer's Diary - for when you think it can't get any worse.

2025

March - Primo Levi - La Tregua and what happens after the "action".

April - Blasting in New York

May - RIP Skype: Sky peer-to-peer (Skyper->Skype) was another neat Scandinavian software creation. We liked the fact that it wasn't controlled by one of the American monsters. That didn't last long and, unsurprisingly, a few years after buying from eBay, Microsoft cannibalised its code then dumped it in favour of its own bloated offering.

June - Intrinsic microporosity

July - William Smith was known as the "father of English geology", for his insightful observations about the layers and deposits of stone, sediments and minerals across the nation.

August - Chris How paintings

September - Drumlins

October - On the chaos in the United States - John Sinclair was worried about how badly the war was turning out for Britain, so he wrote to Adam Smith: "If we go on at this rate, the nation must be ruined," Smith replied "Be assured, my young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation."

November - Heberden or Bouchard's nodes

December -

2026

January - Greenland

February -