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Oct 24, 2024 | 
tokyodev.com | Christian Mack |Michael Wu |Paul McMahon |Sayana Takagi
“Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. So I began my very first, brief and spontaneous trip to any Asian country, in February of 2024. I’m sure I wasn’t the first or last tourist with such ideas either!As soon as I returned home to Berlin, Germany, I started scheming up ways to accomplish the move.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
realassets.ipe.com | Paul McMahon
On 18 August, while many Europeans lounged on the beach, the EU Nature Restoration Law finally came into effect. It was the culmination of years of consultation, drafting, environmental lobbying, farmer pushback, and down-to-the-wire political brinkmanship.
The result - a unique piece of legislation that, if implemented, will help reverse alarming biodiversity loss in Europe, transforming how rural land is used.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
tokyodev.com | Paul McMahon
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan. Given our focus, it’s not surprising that LinkedIn is the social network that delivers us the most traffic. Typically, about 4% of our total visitors arrive from LinkedIn.The other week, I received an email from them. Apparently TokyoDev’s LinkedIn page had violated their professional community policies so severely that they’d removed our page without warning.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
sustainableviews.com | Paul McMahon
Request Free TrialAustraliaOpinionCommentFood and FarmingCarbon MarketsJuly 12, 2024Paul McMahon is managing partner at SLM PartnersAustralia’s regulated carbon market, with its focus on land management and commitment to ensuring consistent demand, provides a model for others to followUnlimited access to all contentEmail alerts highlighting key industry insight. Invitations to attend exclusive roundtables and events.
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May 20, 2024 | 
t.ly | Paul McMahon
Our annual impact report for 2023 is now available. This report covers all our global activities across Europe, USA and Australia. This is our first report integrating the recommendations from the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and presenting portfolio-wide carbon accounting results.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
tcu360.com | Paul McMahon
As the college baseball season ramps up, this weekend’s series stands out among the early matchups for the TCU Horned Frogs: a thrilling non-conference showdown set at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. From March 1st to March 3rd, TCU will square off against formidable opponents USC and Arizona State in a series that promises intense action and fierce competition. Last year, USC boasted a commendable record of 34-23-1, while Arizona State finished their season with a 32-23 record.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
codeproject.com | Paul McMahon
Technical debt, as originally coined by Ward Cunningham, is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan, you can borrow money to accomplish something faster than you could otherwise. With technical debt, this is like the initial development boost you get. Once you take out a loan, you need to pay interest on it.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
tokyodev.com | Paul McMahon
Technical debt, as originally coined by Ward Cunningham, is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan, you can borrow money to accomplish something faster than you could otherwise. With technical debt, this is like the initial development boost you get. Once you take out a loan, you need to pay interest on it.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
tokyodev.com | Paul McMahon
I previously wrote about how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it, and how Apple refused to unlock it for me. Well, I did manage to finally get it unlocked. All it took was an email to Tim Cook. I don’t know how repeatable this process is, but here’s what happened. After publishing the article, it somehow reached the top of Hacker News. I’d hoped that would trigger someone from Apple to reach out to me, but no one did.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
tokyodev.com | Paul McMahon
I stumbled across an amazing fact. From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan decreased by a factor of 12! Home burglaries in Japan peaked in 2003, with 190,473 cases in Japan. But as of 2022, where the most recent data is available, they have dropped to a mere 15,692 cases. This drop was astonishing to me, and so I sought out the reasons behind it.
