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Andy Davidson
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into: Sheffield 🌇, cooking & eating 🍽️, ip connectivity 🛜, travel ✈️, cricket 🏏 , parkrun 🏃, democracy

work: CTO at ASK4 (AS41230, an access ISP), Chair at IXLeeds (an IXP), nerd at Asteroid (an IX PaaS). Proudly and formerly of LONAP, Allegro, HE, etc
I have a smart monitor on various dumb devices so they I can get a notification when they have finished doing whatever it is they do. :)
August 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There are some trendy new places near Coal Drops yard if you wanted a cocktail. They’re on my list to discover. I mention because the outdoor spaces between StP and those venues might actually be perfect on a day like today. Unless you’re a vampire. :)
August 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Sir, my favourite pub in London is the Euston Tap - size of a postage stamp but the outdoor tables will be nice in the sunshine & the beer range, kept perfectly, is sublime. Secondly, the Parcel Yard is quite large for a station pub, and has enough nooks to hide in and have a conversation to work.
August 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Please mop up after you read your emails, thank you.
August 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is what I came here to say :) We should definitely try this at all levels of government. I want to be the weekend only foreign secretary.
July 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
These are stunning.
June 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
In Britain you now pay in a cheque by photographing it from your bank’s portable telephone application.

And it clears in about a day! Amazing. (I received my first cheque in about a decade from my health insurer as a disbursement for reading glasses.)
May 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It felt like one to keep, a career changing moment.
April 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Me! Glad to see so many networks investing here in the North of England.
April 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I think the decision makes sense given the real disagreement over the charging scheme for the registry. It makes sense for the basics to be settled before the things that are beneficial but extra.
April 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Oh no, another geographically massive layer 2 carrier mislabeled as an IX :(
April 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It needs to host in the opposite of London! Maybe the antipode, or one of the places called Little London like the one near Leeds. There’s a Little London Place here in Sheffield near the big Lidl.
April 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Agree capital intensity normally drives towards fewer larger companies but what is it about the step to 800G which is driving fundamentally different r&d our capital costs?
April 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM