When you hear ‘Jekyll’, you may think of the infamous character in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. In the web development world however, Jekyll has been adopted as the flag-bearing standard for static site generators (SSGs). ‘Wait!’ I hear you say: ‘Static? That doesn’t sound useful…and what’s with the generator?’ Enter my secret laboratory and I shall explain…

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Today, the humble automated teller machine, otherwise referred to as an ATM celebrated its half-century birthday. Clearly, the banking industry has been around for a long time and in the past few years has seen nearly exponential technological progress, both with internal operations and for banking customers.

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Does your job involve mundane tasks? Well, spare a thought for the humble admin assistant, the unsung heroes of mundanity. Having been in contact with administrative roles for many years across the public and private sectors on both sides of the Atlantic, I’ve seen colleagues executing tasks that would be much better suited to a not too overly-sophisticated robot. So in the impending age of automation where do they stand?

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