Hello, I’m Adrian Tuckwell.
This blog is a long-running collection of thoughts, lessons and experiments around software engineering, digital transformation, practical problem solving, making things, and the human side of working with technology.
If you are new here, this page is a guided route into some of the main themes.
Software Engineering & Delivery
- The Great Flap: Unrealistic Deadlines in Software Development
- Speed to Fix: The High Cost of Bug Fixes
- The Hidden Cost of Rushed Development
- When Is a Bug Really a Bug?
- Software Projects and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
Governance, Systems & Digital Transformation
- Why Every Request Needs a Task
- Over Promise and Under Deliver
- From Agile Dreams to Crunch Realities
- Embracing the Future with Microsoft DevOps
The Human Side of Technology
- Discovering Aphantasia
- The Perfectionist’s Dilemma
- Finding Purpose as a Work From Home Developer
- Finding Balance in Remote Life
Making, Fixing & Creative Projects
- Building Wooden Robots With Kids Across Aberdeenshire
- I Built an Electric Car
- The Joy of Fixing Things (And Why I Always Try First)
- I Have Maker’s Itch
Technology Nostalgia
- The Commodore VIC-20: My First Computer
- Vic20 Mischief: How a Teenage Prank Sparked My Interest in Programming
- Remembering “The Count” on the VIC-20: A Text Adventure Classic
- Ghetto Blasters: When Music Was Physical, Shared, and Loud
Current Projects
Outside this blog, I also work on practical projects through:
- Udny Designs — handmade wooden crafts, projects and maker ideas.
- Udny Solutions — practical tech help, websites, accessibility and digital problem solving.
This page will grow and change as the blog develops.