Ollie Parsley

04/03/2026

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22/01/2026

Humiliated by AI part 2!

12/11/2025

I got rickrolled by AI 🤣 . I honestly didn't think that Claude and GPT-5 Codex would have a sense of humour...

08/06/2025

Had a fantastic day at Thruxton to see the . Also got to see some too. Perfect weather too.

08/05/2025

I really do fidget a lot during meetings! Today it dawned on me just how many fidget toys I have 😂

05/02/2022

I've been beavering away on my Don't Interrupt app in my evenings. Launching our first paid plans next week. It's about time my side project started paying for itself rather than gradually eating my savings!

https://dontinterrupt.app

Take control of annoying interruptions. Prevent interruptions by automatically setting your status, presence and Do Not Disturb settings by giving granular working hours and linking Google Calendars.

12/09/2021

Got my third 1:2 scale helmet. 's from 2020. I hope there will be some mini helmets soon.

19/08/2021

I just did an exam from home and passed! It was pretty strict, needed we**am and microphone on to make sure I wasnt cheating. But now I'm a Certified Slack Developer.

01/08/2021

When working on a side project I've always struggled to decide whether I want my app to be perceived to be run by a big successful company, or truly show that it's a one-person show. I think my fear is around my app not being trusted because it appears as more if a bodge or hack.

This week I was handling customer support tickets and decided to inform the person that the reason I was delayed was due to doing the app on my own, having a full-time job and a young family.

The response I got was both supportive and understanding. Far better than I anticipated and made to job of resolving the issue far more pleasant for both parties. So I will probably start to open up to customers more.

Anyone else had experience with side projects?

08/03/2021

It's been years since I last wrote a blog post. I'm sure there are many ways it could be improved.

A blog post about how I moved to the free Grafana Cloud plan, including migration from statsd to prometheus.

All about myself, Ollie Parsley and how I dabble, develop and deploy.

01/01/2021

I'm looking at streaming coding sessions on my side projects and Open Source maintenance & contributions.

To get an idea of how to structure the sessions, what tips or ideas do you have to make it engaging and interactive?

27/12/2020

As part of my 2021 goal of blogging about my personal projects, I've moved both my own site https://ollieparsley.com and my companies site https://hootware.com to Github pages.

Really easy to do, plus saving me money with less deployments on my Kubernetes cluster too!

All about myself, Ollie Parsley and how I dabble, develop and deploy.