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Barry Frost

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Software engineer and leader. Hacking on #atproto and #indieweb projects in my spare time. https://barryfrost.com/ ⁂ 🇬🇧

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Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesOct 12, 2026

🥅 Week 268 - Goals

I waved off my wife this weekend as she tackled the Commando Series 6K race in Kent. Before leaving, she cursed her previous willingness to sign up, but she completed the course and her team all seemed to enjoy trekking through rivers and mud. No, I will not be joining them next

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesOct 5, 2026

❓ Week 267 - Quiz

First, a small personal note on the news this week that Man City have been found guilty of 114/115 breaches of Premier League financial rules. Supporting Arsenal during the period (and beyond), and watching City pip us to titles and cups while cheating, has made me so angry. I mi

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesSep 28, 2026

🎶 Week 266 - Festival

I’ve been a fan of Gene since the mid-nineties and have seen them live many times, always in the UK. This week I travelled to València, in the east of Spain, to Visorfest, a festival for 80s/90s bands, to see them abroad for the first time. I flew out on Thursday evening with And

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesSep 21, 2026

🏀 Week 265 - Basketball

L found a basketball stand/hoop offered for free from a local family and set it up for the boys on the patio. I grumbled because it’s further creeping Americanisation of our children, but I have to concede it does get them active and playing together outside. I visited the school

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesSep 14, 2026

👾 Week 264 - AI

This week, I was invited to a roundtable event in the Haymarket Hotel in London. The topic was (unsurprisingly) AI and how it had affected our operating models. I enjoyed it. There was an even split of optimism vs pessimism on a future with AI. We had a good cross-section of ten

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesSep 7, 2026

👦 Week 263 - Sons

The new school year began, with my boys now in years six and four. L is also back teaching on selected days, so I’ve returned to drop-off duties when she’s working. It won’t be long before neither son holds my hand on the walk to school, so I need to remember to savour it 🥹 Afte

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesAug 30, 2026

📍 Week 262 - Cornwall

We continued our holiday in Cornwall. The weather was mostly sunny all week, but on one cloudy, drizzly day we drove down to Falmouth on the south coast. The National Maritime Museum was fine, but didn’t grab the boys’ interest. We walked up the hill to Pendennis Castle and shelt

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesAug 30, 2026

🏖️ Week 261 - Beach

I’ve been away on holiday, so sorry if these weeknotes are a little late. I was a little busy holidaying. We were in Porthtowan, a little town on the north coast of Cornwall, staying in a cottage right by the beach with my parents. I squeezed myself into a wetsuit and surprised m

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesAug 17, 2026

5️⃣ Week 260 - Five

Unlike many whose first thought was impending armageddon, when this week’s government-triggered mobile alert came through to our phones, I was sitting next to my wife and my assumption was that she had somehow caused the noise by watching an annoying Instagram Reel. Sorry, L. We

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesAug 11, 2026

🏊 Week 259 - Swim

After our anniversary weekend in the Cotswolds, I drove home while L picked up the boys and continued on to a lodge in the Forest of Dean with her parents. For me, this meant a few nights of currys and quiet, and working from home during the day, while they were away. I’m now off

Barry Frost - Articles

Barry Frost - ArticlesAug 5, 2026

BBC Radio on your HomePod

This may be a fairly niche topic for those in the UK, but it’s a hack I now use daily so I thought I’d share. Unlike many other radio stations, it’s not possible to ask your Apple HomePod to directly play radio from the BBC. If I say, “Play 6 Music”, my HomePod mini starts playin

Barry Frost - Weeknotes

Barry Frost - WeeknotesAug 3, 2026

🚣 Week 258 - Rowboat

We’re just back from an anniversary weekend at Monty’s Retreat near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, set in a private nature reserve. Our little log cabin had its own rowboat, a hot tub and a deck overlooking a semi-private corner of the lake. The boys joined us for the first nigh