Made To Measure: The story, the journey from within… Our made to measure offering is one of Dunelm’s key heritage products, as selling curtain seconds on a market stall was where it all started for us. I say that, but it was actually 600 pairs of slippers that Bill was…

INDUCTION What a warm welcome we had to the tech department! The two-week induction involved meeting key people in the business giving us a good insight into possible rotations for our grad scheme. A few highlights were visiting our Stoke distribution centres, our manufacturing centre and meeting a few of our…

Imagine how futuristic it feels to control a drone by just moving your hand around in 3D space. In this project I did exactly that. It involved reverse engineering the protocol used to send commands to this small drone, assembling the hardware (a TinyPICO V2 and BNO055 IMU), and building…

Continuing to push analogies to breaking point…This time with fries! You might have seen a post recently with describing an application as front end, back end and API. Something along these lines:

Welcome to 2022! With the new year, comes this new blog, bringing you the latest from the Dunelm technology team. You’ve hopefully heard of Dunelm, the home of homes and the UK’s number 1 homewares retailer. We have 176 stores across the country and over 10,000 colleagues helping to provide…

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” — George Bernard Shaw At the weekend, I went camping. Was it cold? Yes Was it wet? Yes, very Was it windy? Yeah (and not just because of my 7 year old sleeping “buddy”) Did…

Over the last decade or so, there are few words used more regularly and more vaguely to mean more things across the business World as “Digital”. It means everything and nothing, has justified enormous programs of work and changed the shape and behaviour of organisations of all sizes. You can…

Like many people this year, working remotely went from an occasional occurrence to an enforced environment. Throw in some kids being “home schooled-ish” and a national shortage of toilet roll and you’ve got the ingredients for a nightmare ready to roll… Luckily, we were pretty much good-to-go from an enablement…

As we approach the end of 2019, it’s time to reflect on the what we’ve achieved over the year and set our goals for the next one. One of the things that we, as a society achieved, was the introduction and use of a load of phrases that permeate meetings…