19th November 2024, Malaga, Spain - The final chapter of Rafael Nadal's legendary career 🎾 Yet another legend of the sport is hanging up his racket. Rafa is someone I watched closely while growing up. He was always the player my friends at the tennis academy idolised, and I honestly lost count of how many times my opponents pumped them...

Peter Drucker’s famous quote, Culture eats strategy for breakfast, has taken on a new depth of meaning for me over my years at my current role. I’ve already completed five years with Ricardo, and my perspective on what truly matters in a workplace has evolved. This isn’t a rant or critique - it’s more of an understanding I’ve come to a...

Here's another instalment of my thoughts on Apple's latest major OS updates, which are being released later today (at 6pm UK time⏰). If you're not aware - though I think you probably are - one small summer hobby of mine is keeping up to date with the beta releases following the annual June WWDC event. I enjoy playing around with the ne...

I often get asked about what steps I follow when we kickoff a new coding project. It’s important to mention that I’m part of a team of geospatial programmers so we do things slightly differently to web developers and data scientists. We don’t do scrums, sprints and all the other shenanigans, and we rarely do feature branches on git. Ye...

In this vast landscape of professional life, whether going through the consultancy world or any other line of work, we often find ourselves navigating through endless contemplations. This is especially true when we have to work under the constraints of specific rules, guided by the mirage of preset guidelines. The challenge is universa...

Here we go again! Apple did something they should be ashamed of. And it wasn’t the first time! It’s the whole anti-competitive thing again but in a new flavour. If this seems perplexing, let me explain. Actually, let’s refresh our minds for a bit. Back in 2020 Apple found itself entangled in legal disputes with Epic Games and Basecamp....

As the year draws to a close, it's that time when we naturally turn our gaze backward, reminiscing over achievements, memorable events, and remarkable journeys that shaped our past year. Admittedly, like everyone else, I do it too - big time in fact. However, contrary to societal notions and as I said in my last year’s post, it’s not t...

Ohh hi there, I’m back from my perfect unwind! I’ve been meaning to write a post about Cyprus for a long time now. So here it goes. The idea behind it is to show the beauty of the island through my lens and give some tips on how to navigate around it - including places to visit, where to eat, etc. It’s my special 1-week(ish) itinerary,...

I originally wrote the below article for Ricardo at https://www.ricardo.com/en/news-and-insights/insights/wildfires-in-the-uk-improving-spatial-distribution-observations Addressing the ever-increasing threat of wildfires is of paramount importance for countries near the equator to the mid-latitudes. Wildfire occurrences are projected t...

I’m out. Today is my last day of work for almost 3 weeks (with the exception of 2 days at the end of next week). More importantly, I’m taking my first full week off since November last year. It’s kinda embarrassing but true. I do the 9-to-5 thing just fine (with my way ofc 😉) but when taking extended time away from work, I’m bad (my OM...

I have been looking forward to sharing this for quite some time now. I finally did it - I wrote my first cook book! 👨🏼🍳 After working on it for about a year, it's now complete and I'm really pleased with the outcome. As with every accomplishment I had too my ups and downs with reviews, edits, ironing out the nitty gritty details and re...

It's the instance in the Earth's orbit around the Sun when people start talking about reflections and NY's resolutions. I'm a big fan of such practices but not so much when it comes to these societal notions. What I mean is why should these occur at the end of year? I mean let's face it setting big goals at the start of the year are ov...

A couple of weeks ago, a colleague rekindled my dedication to what I do for a living as a geographer and a climate change advocate. We met at a post-work climate change exhibition, where we started chatting about our Physical Geography degrees, backgrounds and the exhibited paintings. This led to an exploration of our shared interest i...

It’s that exciting time of year when Apple announces its big software and features’ upgrades and oh boy this year didn’t disappoint. Of course these iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS updates won’t be available to the public until September but for the beta testers out there, Apple has certainly given us a lot of reasons to be excited abo...

Hello there 👋🏼 I'm back with another instalment of What I Heard, Read and Saw. As a reminder this is my first mini series I started back in September where I'll be posting whenever I fill up these three slots — one for something interesting I recently listened to, one for something I read that I liked, and one for something I saw that ...

Working is silos… sometimes is considered the elephant in the room when it comes to collaborative work, and more generally when working in teams. I do acknowledge there are certain jobs that require this kind of isolation and of course many others that do not (i.e. surgeons in the OR). But here is my perspective from an environmental c...

That most certainly is not linked to my ability to code but more on the freedom I had as a student. What I mean is that I recently worked during the Good Friday and Easter Monday bank holidays and it was certainly liberating and got me to reminisce my days as a student - specifically not having to follow the 9-to-5 schedule and being b...

I’ve been coming to the realisation that diversification is key to many aspects of lives. Finding a balance today is almost scarce, but more importantly seeking balance becomes draining. Focusing entirely on one thing is bad and complex. If shit hits the fan with that thing, then your life does as well. At work I believe you're better ...

Hello there Back again with another instalment of What I Heard, Read and Saw. As a reminder this is my first mini series I started back in September where I'll be posting whenever I fill up these three slots — one for something interesting I recently listened to, one for something I read that I liked, and one for something I saw that c...

You'd be happy to know that this post has nothing to do with iOS and app updates or whatsoever - ohh the cringe faces out there! Anyway, today I just wanna share my essential/most frequently used apps of the last few months. 1. VSCO for editing photos A free app for editing photos using predefined filters. Really nice UI and UX that ar...

I'm currently in the tube and en route to a friend's place in Central London. The destination is irrelevant so I'd like to focus on the fact that I'm riding the tube. For the Londoners out there I'm almost certain you can relate when I say that we get lost in thoughts, are abstracted and even stare into space when we're in the tube (co...

Ahh another Friday! Let's face it, we are carrying some exhaustion from the weekdays at this time of the day. It's reaching 5.30 pm here in London so I wanna share something quick. Reiterating, it's Friday and contrary to the previous ones, it does feel kinda different. It's been a really good week at work with some exciting projects n...

Hello people. I'm really glad to be back and writing this post. It's been a while as you can see - I blame it on the shitmoosy month of November - I never liked it, never worked for me as a student, in my personal life nor my professional career. It's the time of year that I'm super unproductive at work, I experience the time change in...

This machine fights climate change … really, I’m not joking.. just think about it for a bit 🚴🏼

Contrary to my well-organised mornings my workflow for the past month looks like this It all starts from somewhere, right.. Then it's about choosing between these two Where planning looks like this and tasks from yesterday like this then to my surprise I find myself in this state of chaos or entropy if you prefer (in red) these have be...

Hello there 👋🏼 it's been some time right(?). But I'm back... and I'm back with something different this time. First things first though...the short absence. I gotta admit it wasn't intentional but it coincided really well with taking time off from work. It was an infrequent opportunity to reset and take a step back from excessively spe...

Admittedly I wanted to write this post sometime last week just before leaving on AL but it's been a crazy busy week. Albeit being in the summer period when things should've slowed down with deliverables, I found myself working on 3 deadlines for Friday which, of course, didn't allow sufficient time to focus on writing this post. But be...

Pretty cheesy and cliché, am I right? Jokes aside, I'm a strong believer that we should be doing what we love - something that’s fulfilling and makes us feel whole. How often do we have to do something, because 'we have to' as opposed to because 'we want to'. Otherwise, what's even the point.. Anyway, one of the recent projects at work...

The title gives you massive hints of what I'm sharing today but I'll let the images below tell you more about it 📸 You’d think Strawberries & Cream 🍓🍦 are the most Wimbledon thing ever !!! 🤔 … followed by a Pimm's Cup probably? #PimmsOnPimmsOnPimms 🍊🌿 ..or maybe the most Wimbledon thing is a player - a player, who represents the histor...

Let's do this 👾 if you know me, you already know how much I look forward to WWDC (dub-dub-dee-see) in June every year. If you're unaware, that's the World Wide Developers Conference organised by Apple, for developers, where the new features of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS are being presented (for their release later in the year). Al...