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I Thought I Knew How Lights Worked—Then I 3D Printed These
We all know what a light looks like… right? This post explores how unconscious assumptions shape what we think good design should look like—and how breaking those mental models led me to create a series of strange, beautiful, impossible-looking lights. From floating fins to colour-shifting spheres, this is a love letter to curiosity, creativity, and…
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Whilst My Neighbours’ Heads Gently Explode
A story about 3D printing, pop-up Christmas cards, and what happens when you give people a little wonder.
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Scrum Fables: The Biscuits Are Yours
Something is deeply wrong in Dunwell. Biscuit shelves stand empty, ginger nuts have vanished without a crumb of explanation, and Chocovia has proudly announced that all biscuits—every biscuit—have been replaced by a single, supposedly perfect one they simply call “The Biscuit.” But Dunwell has never been the sort of town to accept nonsense quietly. And…
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The Hug That Already Knew
Some hurts aren’t really about sore legs, and some comforts aren’t really about soup. Sometimes the truest gift is a hug that already knows.
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Scrum Fables: It’s a Wonderful Lemonade Fountain
Not every difference you make will be noticed. But just because no one says it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Silence is not the same as absence.
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Scrum Fables: The Parsnip Lecture
Not every challenge is an opponent. Some, like the parsnip, don’t need conquering at all. They just want to join the soup. Sometimes the thing we brace ourselves to fight is really just waiting to play on our side — if only we let it.
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Scrum Fables: The Unicorn Fix
In software, people chase unicorns. In real life, sometimes the unicorn is just duct tape with sparkles. You can wrestle with a problem all week and get nowhere — until something silly or unexpected shifts your perspective. That’s when you find the “unicorn fix”: a solution that feels too perfect to be real.
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Different Strokes (Part 3): A Different Kind of Luck
Recovery came slowly. The fear faded. And in its place, something quieter arrived — not joy, not relief, but a strange sense of gratitude, and a different kind of clarity.
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Scrum Fables: Flight Club
Chaos is loud. Success is quiet. It’s easy to think the noisy, messy teams are more exciting — but the best work often feels almost boring. Things don’t break. Customers are happy. And being in a team like that is anything but dull.
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Notes from the Ward (and the Great Biscuit Ranking of 2025)
On the surface: it’s about hospital biscuits, bed-baths, and heart monitors. Underneath: it’s about patience, surrender, and the healing power of Fruit Shortcake.
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Scrum Fables: Market Day
Deadlocks don’t always break by force. Sometimes the smallest gesture — an unasked kindness, a quiet first step — is enough. You don’t have to tell others the way forward. You just have to walk it, and let them follow.
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Different Strokes (Part 2): The Surgery and the Self
Eight days after a diagnosis, I was scheduled for major surgery. What followed was needles, scars, a chorus of chainsaws in the high-dependency unit, and more tea and biscuits than I thought possible. But also: a chance to rethink how we talk about strokes—and how much a single word can define, or misdefine, a life.
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Scrum Fables: Mission Improbable
Spy gadgets? Check. Evil lair? Check. Ducks with clipboards? Check. But sometimes the hardest thing to see… is the obvious.
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Medical Scans, Ranked by How Much They Feel Like Wetting Yourself
I tried CT, MRI, and ultrasound—and rated each one by how much they messed with my senses (and dignity). Spoiler: one felt suspiciously like wetting yourself.
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Scrum Fables: The Nimble Plane
Principles are sturdy things — but with enough twisting, you can make them say whatever you like.
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Different Strokes (Part 1): Clots, Wards and My Lovely Veins
It started small: a tingling hand, a dizzy spell, a moment of confusion. Easy to brush off. Until one Sunday morning, it wasn’t. This is what a “minor” stroke looks like— and why the small stuff matters more than you think.
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Scrum Fables: Splashback
This one’s based on something that really happened — just with fewer hedgehogs. When people don’t communicate well, small frustrations can snowball into tension… and sometimes into public fireworks.
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Scrum Fables: Goosefinger
Shipments of chocolate have been mysteriously vanishing, and Dunwell and Yolotown are sent to investigate. Armed with gadgets, quick wits, and a suspicious biscuit tin, they face down Goosefinger… and his dream of sweet, sweet oblivion. Even the grandest plans can collapse when the smallest details are ignored.
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Scrum Fables: The Roundabout Way
When you want something but can’t just say ‘do it,’ you have to explain why. And sometimes those explanations get… a little out of hand.
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The Two Types of Software Bug—and How to Stop Them
Sure, bugs can have infinite causes. But most of them boil down to just two flavours of failure. Here’s how to taste-test and treat each one.
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Scrum Fables: Fire Festival
Sometimes plans aren’t missing pieces because of malice or incompetence — it’s just hard to think of everything. That’s why it matters to review, ask questions, and fill in the gaps before the big day.
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Scrum Fables: The Dragon of Backlog Mountain
Hey, there’s a terrifying seven-meter dragon at the top of Backlog Mountain — could you go up there and have a chat with him? In retrospect, the hardest part of most things I’ve done was just starting. The unknown always feels terrifying, but once you step into it, it’s rarely as bad as you imagined.
Davide la Locomotive
Cycling, 3D Printing and Scrum
Davide la Locomotive 