Owen C. Jones

I’m a software developer livng in Cardiff, UK. I write about user experience, coding, morality, politics, and other things that are interesting.

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Owen C. Jones

Oct 30, 2018 · 4 min

Tips on leaving a software job

Of all industries, software is one with a particularly high turnover of staff. This isn’t necessarily as bad as it sounds. People move on for many reasons, but many just look for a new challenge every now and then, or just get a better offer. Software developers are in short…

Owen C. Jones

May 24, 2018 · 7 min

How to attract genuinely good staff in IT

Worthy of note: This piece isn’t about my current employer, who manage to be remarkably good at this stuff, it’s about my experiences in software in general.

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Owen C. Jones

May 24, 2018 · 4 min

Promises we can’t keep: A software developer’s soliloquy

A few days ago, tasked with explaining what it is I do to someone who wants to do it, I ended up coming up with the following analogy: