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Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon

Software Engineer gone ferril. Digital nomad since 2018 (bike/van). Now dedicated to woodland creation and restoration, as co-founder of UK climate chairty Protect Earth.

Climate Action in Tech - Design, Code, and Hack the Environment Better

Climate Action in Tech - Design, Code, and Hack the Environment Better

As the science-denial perpetrated omnishambles of 2020 continues, COVID-19 rages on whilst Europe gets hit by deadly storms and flash floods, wildfires are big enough to be called "gigafires", the Arctic refuses to freeze for the first time on record, thousands are displaced by flooding in Vietnam, and

Fixing Gatsby oEmbed Instagram Failures

I use gatsby-remark-oembed by Benedicte Raae, because it makes embedding Tweets, Instagram posts, YouTube videos, etc in Phil.Tech and Phil.Bike as simple as pasting in the URL. If it's hot, sit under a tree. If it's cold, put your jacket on. If it'

One Day on the Atlas Mountain Race

One Day on the Atlas Mountain Race

I cycled from Bristol to Morocco, and back at the end of 2019 and early 2020. Why? After my stupid achilles injury that took up most of autumn 2019, I did a few little trips, like taking a bike I'd auctioned for the reforestation fundraiser from Bristol to

OpenAPI Examples Need Help

OpenAPI has come a long way since its nascent days as Swagger. It's got excellent tooling, is talked about at all the conferences, is used by governments, major banks, healthcare providers, GitHub, Stripe, all sorts. Everyone is using it to bring the benefits of a type system to

Bike Hacks

Bike Hacks

Are you a couple of miles (or days) from the nearest bike shop? If you're like me, and enjoy creative problem solving, then this is a fun opportunity to think outside the box! Here's some stunts I had to pull over the last year of bike

Refactoring an entire API Ecosystem

Refactoring an entire API Ecosystem

When I started working at WeWork back in 2016 I rather quickly discovered that the entire architecture was a total mess... Over the course of the 18 months I managed to stay there, we fixed a whole lot of that mess. No APIs were documented so people would just build

Cotswold Gravel Komoot Collection

Cotswold Gravel Komoot Collection

After my winter jaunt down to Morocco and back up through France I got off the ferry just in time for COVID-19 lock-down on home turf. This was obviously a tough time for everyone, but this was lightened a tad by having all the gravel and rolling hills of the