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Comment by petercooper

4 years ago

As an aside, I've known thehodge for about fifteen years and he's a total mensch. He ran a popular annual hackathon (an actual ethical one where everyone won a prize) here in the UK, raises money seemingly non-stop for a children's hospice, and has launched perhaps 102 random businesses (including an online candy store!) and side projects over the years both for his own and our entertainment :-D If you want to patronize or support a business that's actually run by a good, ethical person, this is the one for you.

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neilwilson  4 years ago

And let's not forget creating "Hodgeland" when the pandemic prevented him taking his little girl to Disneyland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-56099072

Dom is a legend in his own lunchtime. A hugely positive inspiration to everybody who has had the good fortune to meet him.

  • thehodge  4 years ago

    That was 100% my wife, she came up with the idea after our trip to TokyoDisneyland was cancelled and we were all a bit down. I'd love to take credit for that but I cannot!

onion2k  4 years ago

I met Dom at a few of the Newcastle barcamps a loooong time ago. I'll second that he's an awesome guy, and an impressive serial entrepreneur, and very good at improvised PowerPoint karaoke...