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I’m old enough to have learned COBOL at university, although that was the mid 90’s and says more an about the university than my age.

It was good fun and interesting, so if you have the time and interest I’d go for it.

You don’t happen to remember the name of an Amiga game where you navigated a little robot around via CCTV while avoiding security guards, in order to break into a safe?

A lot of great suggestions here.

My two additions would be starting weekly one-on-ones or if you are already doing them, using them to roll out changes individually with each contributor

This allows you to individualise your approach but will also help you get to know your team better.

No one is so busy they can’t spend 30mins a week having a chat.

The manager-tools.com has good resources to help with rollout

Secondly, figure out everything you want to change and then pick three. Dont change a single extra thing until those things are done.

I might be late to the party but I think if you watched BlackBerry you’d like the Tetris movie too.

It’s a bit silly but in a good way.

203.21.30.124 and .125 were the IPs of the DNS servers for the ISP I worked at in the late 1990s

So many hours talking customers through DNS settings on the help desk.

Beat me to it for some NZ perspective, but while we’re here, I was introduced to Jean-Michel Jarre at one of the first Laser Tag places in NZ in the late 80s.

I can’t remember what it was called, but it was next to Leisure land/Footrot Flats theme park in Te Atatu. Laserforce maybe?

It was multi-level, filled with fog and Star Trek style doors that opened when you shot them, and Jean-Michel Jarre played as a constant soundtrack. It was truely magical for a space-and-sci-fi obsessed preteen.

My friends and I only went a couple of times before it turned into paintball, which wasn’t as much fun for 11yr olds!

Subsequently Rendez-vous was one of the first records I ever bought and played over and over again on weekend mornings when my parents were still in bed.

Fourth Rendez-Vous was my favourite.

Curious about micro coaching - can you explain a bit more about how this works?

My father was originally from Manchester and there is a good chance he borrowed heavily.

It’s interesting to find this out!

My Dad was an avid sci fi reader, I feel this is probably where he borrowed from :)

The one thing stopping me doing this is finding my own domain name that I want to use for email.

You’d think with the number of domain names I own I’d have one I liked

Every once in a while I go through an “I want a website” phase and try something new, but always end up back with Wordpress.

Ultimately I wanted to write content and play around with CSS making it look nice, and Wordpress handles that. Many of the other options felt like I was forever tweaking things or upgrading a dependency or something - very much mike the old days of Linux where making the modem work was an achievement.

If I couldn’t use Wordpress I’d probably go with Jekyll or Ghost.