Peter Roome @zoltarSpeaks

  • Automating my family’s grocery shopping to reduce costs and waste - Part 2

    29/03/2020, 5 minute read.

    So it’s been almost a month since my first post about how I am automating my family’s grocery shopping - and a lot has changed in the world. Here we are, comfortably isolated at home, practicing the art of social distancing.

  • Automating my family's grocery shopping to reduce costs and waste.

    29/02/2020, 5 minute read.

    I love food and I love cooking, but I loathe grocery shopping. Deciding what to cook and the time it takes to find the groceries (in-store and online) is painful. Like everyone else I’m kind of busy and would rather spend my spare time with my family and friends. In addition, I casually follow the FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) mentality, minimising living costs where possible. I hate waste too - particularly food waste. So I have made it my mission recently to see what I can do to make this weekly chore less expensive, less wasteful and generally simpler.

  • Building a product-led culture by frequently speaking to your users

    26/10/2019, 7 minute read.

    One of the first lessons you learn as a product manager is to build the right solution, you first need to speak to the people who are experiencing the problem you are solving.

  • OKRs - a tool for alignment in high performance teams

    10/10/2019, 4 minute read.

    Like a lot of startups, the end of one quarter and the start of another means planning - more specifically OKR planning.

  • Moving Rails controller helper_methods to helpers for testing purposes with Rspec

    11/03/2018, Less than a 1 minute read.

    A Rails architecture thing that I picked up this week…

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