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I’m 💜 husband to <a href="https://www.relocatetocornwall.co.uk/?utm_source=wackomenace.co.uk&utm_medium=website&utm_content=textlink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer spouse">Joanna</a>, 👨🏻 dad to Evie, 🐕 dog-father to Saffy, ✟ Christian, 🇦🇲 Armenian, and a 💎 contract senior Ruby developer, in no particular order; originally from London but now living near St Ives in Cornwall.</p> <p class="mb-2">I hope you enjoy browsing here and maybe finding something useful.</p> <p class="mb-2"><strong>Want to hire me?</strong> <a href="https://tfnd.uk/?r=wackomenace" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer me">Let’s chat</a> or start by looking at <a href="https://www.rubenarakelyan.com/?r=wackomenace" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer me">my CV</a>.</p> <p><strong>Want to just chat?</strong> <a href="/contact">Hit me up!</a></p> </section> <section class="mb-6"> <h2 class="text-3xl mb-6">What’s new on the blog</h2> <article class="mb-6 h-entry" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemid="https://www.wackomenace.co.uk/blog/4-rms-as-a-figurehead"> <a class="no-underline hover:no-underline active:no-underline focus:no-underline u-url" href="/blog/4-rms-as-a-figurehead"> <p class="text-sm"><time datetime="2024-03-28T00:00:00.000Z" class="dt-published" itemprop="datePublished"> 28 Mar 2024 </time> · <span class="p-category" itemprop="keywords">software, freedom</span></p> <h3 class="text-2xl underline mb-1 p-name" itemprop="name">Richard Stallman as a figurehead, or, knowing when you’re not the right person for the job</h3> <p class="p-summary" itemprop="abstract">Richard Stallman has admirable grit and has achieved more than a lot of other people, but he is not the right person to be the public face of the software freedom movement.</p> </a> </article><article class="mb-6 h-entry" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemid="https://www.wackomenace.co.uk/blog/3-hmrc-helplines"> <a class="no-underline hover:no-underline active:no-underline focus:no-underline u-url" href="/blog/3-hmrc-helplines"> <p class="text-sm"><time datetime="2024-03-21T00:00:00.000Z" class="dt-published" itemprop="datePublished"> 21 Mar 2024 </time> · <span class="p-category" itemprop="keywords">uk, hmrc</span></p> <h3 class="text-2xl underline mb-1 p-name" itemprop="name">HMRC: can you be any more difficult to work with?</h3> <p class="p-summary" itemprop="abstract">Wherein we discuss how HMRC seems hellbent on making it as difficult as possible to work with them.</p> </a> </article><article class="mb-6 h-entry" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemid="https://www.wackomenace.co.uk/blog/2-my-first-pc"> <a class="no-underline hover:no-underline active:no-underline focus:no-underline u-url" href="/blog/2-my-first-pc"> <p class="text-sm"><time datetime="2024-03-10T00:00:00.000Z" class="dt-published" itemprop="datePublished"> 10 Mar 2024 </time> · <span class="p-category" itemprop="keywords">retro, pc</span></p> <h3 class="text-2xl underline mb-1 p-name" itemprop="name">Recreating my first PC</h3> <p class="p-summary" itemprop="abstract">Looking back with fondness at my first Windows desktop.</p> </a> </article><article class="mb-6 h-entry" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" itemid="https://www.wackomenace.co.uk/blog/1-msn-email"> <a class="no-underline hover:no-underline active:no-underline focus:no-underline u-url" href="/blog/1-msn-email"> <p class="text-sm"><time datetime="2024-02-15T00:00:00.000Z" class="dt-published" itemprop="datePublished"> 15 Feb 2024 </time> · <span class="p-category" itemprop="keywords">retro, msn</span></p> <h3 class="text-2xl underline mb-1 p-name" itemprop="name">Getting an msn.com email address in 2024</h3> <p class="p-summary" itemprop="abstract">How to rock that ’90s feeling with @msn.com.</p> </a> </article> <p><a class="no-underline px-4 py-1 border rounded-full border-slate-600 bg-slate-600 text-white hover:border-slate-900 hover:bg-slate-900 hover:text-white transition duration-300 ease-in-out" href="/blog">Read more blog posts →</a></p> </section> <section class="mb-6"> <h2 class="text-3xl mb-6">Recommendations</h2> <p class="mb-6">It’s becoming more and more difficult to companies that do a truly great job and are proud of their quality. Here are some I use that I can heartily recommend to others (with a UK bias):</p> <section class="mb-6 p-6 border border-slate-200 h-card" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"> <a class="no-underline hover:no-underline active:no-underline focus:no-underline" href="https://www.aa.net.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"> <h3 class="text-2xl underline mb-1 p-name" itemprop="name">Andrews & Arnold (A&A)</h3> <p class="mb-2 text-sm underline u-url" itemprop="url">https://www.aa.net.uk</p> <p class="p-note" itemprop="description">A&A are a small UK-based ISP offering a variety of Internet access products with no filtering, but most importantly of all, common sense, genuinely knowledgeable customer service, and no reason to ever call them. Slightly more expensive that the major providers but you get what you pay for, and I pay for this without hesitation.</p> </a> </section> <section class="mb-6 p-6 border border-slate-200 h-card" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"> <a class="no-underline hover:no-underline active:no-underline focus:no-underline" href="https://ref.fm/u26958808" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"> <h3 class="text-2xl underline mb-1 p-name" itemprop="name">Fastmail<span aria-hidden="true">*</span></h3> <p class="mb-2 text-sm underline u-url" itemprop="url">https://ref.fm/u26958808</p> <p class="p-note" itemprop="description">I use Fastmail for both my personal and business email addresses and am very happy with the service. 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