An info packet for 2017–2018 — Hello! We take on interns. Here’s some information on that. What do interns do? We’re a small company of curious, easily-distracted folks. What this means is that someone will say, “hey, lets build this!”, and we’ll all go, “that’s awesome let’s do itttt!”, …

Behind the scenes of the Digital Maker Programme — Since the beginning of the year, we’ve been working with the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore to launch the Digital Maker Programme. The programme aims to take thousands of BBC micro:bits, fling them at anyone with a pulse, and see what awesome things people come up with. …

After I left a five-year stint in the Ministry of Education, I started Tinkertanker in 2011 with two of my closest friends. We created our very first invoice for teaching a programming class, did some software consulting, made a couple of apps, hired our first full-timers, started teaching a boatload*…

We started Tinkertanker in 2011, and haven’t written much about the company and what we do. As a result, we now regularly get emails from people who think we run an actual tanker. Maritime recruiters, please stop sending us crew member CVs! We don’t run a ship! …

Nursery rhyme: I’ve been working on the railroad, all the live-long day; I’ve been working on the railroad, just to pass the time away Have you not heard of the Internet, you fool

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Review of Medium’s “publish from app” feature: I’ve spent the last 20 minutes tapping and swiping all over the damn screen trying to find where I can type a title. Maybe if I tap the top empty space? Nothing. Maybe if I swiped the text down? Nope. Maybe an option will come up if I hit “Publish”? Argh no. What’s that icon in the middle above the keyboard, maybe it — oh, it dismisses the keyboard. Wait, what is that even for? So I can admire my text better?

Do you enjoy wondering why, in the near future, scientists can program artifically intelligent robots, but can only control them using DOS-like low-resolution command prompts? Because, oh boy, you’ll love this movie! Here are some typical things people in this movie type into their VAIOs (which run DOS): upload_thing_to_robot_because_there_is_no_GUI expository_thing_to_type_to_look_techie Y, dramatically (because to confirm a important choice, the user doesn’t have to press Enter to confirm, not in this version of 2016's computers.)

I listen to a lot of nursery rhymes nowadays: … so throughout the movie, I just kept wondering, “Why the hell couldn’t these guys put Humpty together again? They seem perfectly capable.” The movie itself was fine, I guess. What: A movie based on a comicbook by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons. Rating: ★★★☆☆ When: 21 February, 2015 Why: Cinema management: “Should we fill our slate with Oscar nominees for moviegoers who want to get caught up before the awards, or should we flood our cinemas with screenings of Ah Boys To Men 3? Trololololol!”