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'Toast is an award-winning craft beer, sustainably brewed with fresh surplus bread. All profits go the charity Feedback to end food waste. It’s the best thing since, well, you know … ' The Mission Did you know 44% of the bread produced in the UK is never consumed? Toast's mission is to change that. Food production is the biggest contributor to climate change but one third of...

This is quite a lengthy talk and that is because it is packed with detail - Martin Odersky really leaves nothing in DOT untouched in this talk at Devoxx. Objects are useful because they are natural modules, that is, building blocks from which larger systems are defined. Static type systems are essential for fine grained control what information is exposed in a module, and, c...

Can you believe it is already the third week in February and it will soon be March? We're back with another Sunday Reads, this week we have a real mix... Firstly, this blog from Michał Sitko is perfect if you are a Scala developer and want to delve into some Haskell, called Haskell for impatient Scala developer: Getting into speed if you want to get the basics quickly this i...

We're incredibly proud to announce that we have been shortlisted for the FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards, for not only 1 category BUT 3! International Business of the Year Well-Being Award of the Year High-Growth Business of the year These prestigious awards recognise the best small businesses and the self-employed from right across the UK, from every sector and indust...

With new information and opinions being thrown about each day it can get overwhelming trying to understand the IR35 legislation. However, this is where we step in. At Signify Technology our aim is to take the stress away from you, whether you're currently contracting or you were in the process of hiring contractors, we have solutions (yes one of them may include a bit of sun...

Poetry isn't just for Valentines Day and they aren't all romantic. Some are actually really helpful in grasping a concept and some are relatably funny, as these selection of Programming poems show... Linux poetry by Morgan Phillips The inspiration for her Linux poems starts with reading a textbook chapter. She hones the topics down to the key concepts that she wants to remem...

Last week we attended the Microsoft AI for Good event and it was truly inspirational hearing from the start-ups forming the cohort for this year and what it is their technology can do for the good of peoples health well-being and the environment. This is our video contemplation of all the amazing talks given by the Founders of each company! (We have had a few technical diffi...

Blockchain under the hood A technical introduction to Blockchain for the not (so) technically minded. Given the noise around the word Blockchain the aim of this talk is to clarify the main concepts and applications of Blockchain. There will be no talk of "Lambo" here. Stefano Paluello, CTO at Digax Ltd - A self-confessed functional language addict (started with F#, worked wi...

..Yuppp we said it! There has been an atmosphere of panic around the new IR35 legislation and as none of the legislation is actually set at the moment, there has been a lot of confusion. So to lighten the mood we've formulated a little blog post of our favourite IR35 memes... Because is it ever a bad time for a meme? And after all... no matter what. It even seems unlikely th...

Today is Women in STEM day, for those who may not know STEM stands for; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. At Signify we are advocates for diversity internally and play an active part in supporting diversity events in the tech community, like The Women of Silicon Roundabout, which we are sponsoring this year! Massive Science have created some beautiful GIFs th...