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Barry Frost
Hello, I’m Barry (he/him), a software engineer and technology leader with experience building teams, websites and apps. I live in a village in Hertfordshire, UK, with my wife and two sons.
This is my personal website where I post all my articles, notes, photos, bookmarks and checkins using my own software. View the full archives.
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Weeknotes
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Week 226 - Repair
It’s been my last week of work for the year. Apart from planning a few new customer engagements for January, it’s been... -
Week 225 - Lunch
We had our company Christmas event this week. It was a much scaled-back affair compared to last year’s overnight party at a... -
Week 224 - Piano
Last year I forgot to get L an advent calendar. The last-minute Paw Patrol effort from the corner shop wasn’t well received.... -
Week 223 - AI
It’s Black Friday/week. I had previously noted down potential presents for L and the boys which I hoped would be discounted.... -
Week 222 - Negroni
Double Nelson for week 222. It was my birthday. While our boys were at school, L took to me to the opening morning of the... -
Photos from our visit to Wes Anderson: The Archives at the Design Museum in London today.
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Week 221 - Power
It may be the changing of seasons and gloomier days, but I’ve found myself a little down this week. Getting outside for... -
Week 220 - Bang
I joined Andy at the Leicester Square Theatre for Russell Howard’s warm-up show. Scrappy, in-progress shows where the... -
Week 219 - Paint
It’s November already. It’s school half-term. The leaves are changing colour. Hallowe’en is over. Christmas awaits. While I... -
Week 218 - Otters
H reached double figures this week, celebrating his tenth birthday 🎂. His family treat was an otter-feeding experience at... -
Week 217 - Lawn
This Tuesday marked 25 years since I posted my very first blog post. It was the first of 84 entries on my travelblog which I... -
Gigs in October: The Beta Band at the Roundhouse and Gene at Hammersmith Apollo.
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Week 216 - Flying
I spent the last week in sunny San Diego for work. I met up with the rest of our Professional Services leadership team for... -
Week 215 - Bongo
I had two London gigs this week in one weekend. Crazy. First up was The Beta Band at the Roundhouse with Andy. They played... -
Week 214 - Last-minute
I’ve booked flights for another work trip to our San Diego HQ next month. There’s not much glamour in transatlantic work... -
Week 213 - Grown-up
We visited a local secondary school with H this week. He has two years to go at his primary school but we wanted to get an... -
Week 212 - Together
I organised a two-day in-person workshop for my team this week. Although I’m contractually linked to our Cambridge office,... -
Week 211 - School
We travelled back from last week’s holiday on Ibiza. It wasn’t exactly a warm welcome home at Stansted airport: we had an... -
Week 210 - Ibiza
I’ve been on holiday with my family. We spent the week in the sun on Ibiza, near Cala Pada beach. We stayed in a resort on... -
Week 209 - Firsts
The rest of the family came back from their stay at L’s parents’ and normality resumed. I’d missed their happy chaos. At... -
Week 208 - Banana
My wife and children are staying at her parents’, enjoying the neighbour’s swimming pool, bat-watching and the local... -
Week 207 - Yurt
I had a busy few days of work at home while the rest of my family joined L’s parents glamping in Northamptonshire. They... -
Frost boys wearing our Arsenal shirts, climbing the stairs into the Emirates Stadium. Dad wearing 14 Gyökeres, sons wearing 9...
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Week 206 - Spicy
I spent the day at the Oval on Thursday for the first day of the fifth test of England v India. The weather forecasts were... -
Week 205 - Ticket
I was one of the lucky few to see Oasis on the first night of their reunion tour at Wembley. Andy and I met up with Matt who... -
Oasis - first night at Wembley 2025
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I’m off to Wembley later to see Oasis 🥳 which completes the Britpop Big Four of gigs within the last two years: Blur (Wembley in 2023), Suede (Ally Pally in 2024), Pulp (O2 in June) and now Oasis.
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Week 204 - Kong
I took the day off on Tuesday for a well-needed lunch in London with old friends/colleagues. The sunny weather had ended but... -
Week 203 - Alarmed
I got through to the final boss elbow consultant. He made my arm click when rotating but was optimistic I’d be able to fully... -
Week 202 - Garden
I’ve been tracking my blood pressure twice a day for the last couple of weeks. It was prompted by a routine check-up where... -
Week 201 - Mice
I’ve been hearing scratching noises in my office wall recently, especially behind one of the power sockets. I unscrewed the... -
Week 200 - Super-soaker
It must have been hot this week: the bedroom Dyson fan was turned to 10, curtains were shut in the daytime and the paddling... -
Week 199 - Bucket
Pulp were even better than I expected at the O₂. Andy, Matt, Mike and I joined the other nineties indie kids, along with a... -
Week 198 - Gaming
We have a Switch 2! I missed the pre-orders and so assumed I’d have to wait, but on launch day I found one in stock at Argos... -
Week 197 - Elbow
Another welcome Bank Holiday Monday. The sun was shining and so I took my youngest across the road to the park with his... -
Week 196 - Glasses
I’ve been enjoying a nostalgic look back through archives of the Warwick Boar – the student newspaper I worked on from 1997... -
Week 195 - Winners
The last time I saw Rialto was in the nineties with Andy while we were students. We saw them again this week at Scala. Big... -
Week 194 - Flowers
Yet another welcome bank holiday Monday to start the week. Ignoring the boys’ protests, we dragged them away from their... -
OpenAI buys Windsurf for $3B. Not bad for “just” a VSCode fork. As an early Windsurf paying customer, I’m curious but wary of what comes next.
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Week 193 - Repair
It’s been shorts weather. Lovely. I decided to invest in our backup setup at home. Although our Macs and photos are backed... -
Week 192 - Smell
Poppy the cat had a couple of accidents this week. First, she wee’d on my pants left in a washing pile in our bedroom. The... -
Week 191 - Egg
It was the second week of the Easter holidays for our boys, and thanks to Good Friday, it was also a shorter working week... -
Week 190 - France
We came back on Monday from a week’s holiday in France, which is why these weeknotes are a little late. Sorry about that. We... -
Week 189 - Injury
We had another leak from our bathroom into the server/fusebox cupboard below, caused again by the bath’s shower wand... -
Week 188 - Mother
I had holiday to use up before the end of March so I took Friday off. L and I drove into town for some shopping before a... -
Week 187 - Singing
The interviews have been better after last week’s fake-candidate fiasco, in that we have real people turning up. I treated... -
My favourite band, Gene, are reuniting for their first gig in 21 years 🎉 I was at their last one in… 2004. See you in Hammersmith 🤩
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Week 186 - Fake
I’ve started interviewing again at work this week. We’re hiring software engineers to work remotely in the UK. However, it’s... -
Week 185 - Pancakes
L was working every day this week so I walked the boys to school before returning to WFH. Plenty of extra steps 💪 This also... -
Week 184 - Cat
Poppy, our elderly tabby cat, has been poorly this week. She seemed her usual self during the day but we found morning...