Kelly Greening Moore

green grass field with trees during daytime

Maternity leave thoughts

On 17th December 2025

Just a disclaimer: this blog deals with some sensitive issues such as pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health, and mental health (specifically depression). I also have strong opinions about social media, as well as screen time and social media for children, which may come up in this post or others. These are not a criticism of the views of any reader; they’re just mine.

I wanted to mark my return to work with a blog post, because I haven’t managed to write anything since um, July 2024. I have certainly worked on some drafts, including this one, but I haven’t completed anything!

Anyway, let’s dive in. I mostly wanted to talk about social media and privacy (what a surprise!) as well as my pre- and post-birth experiences.

Focus vs. notifications

By Kelly Greening Moore

On 15th July 2024

In Personal, Work

One of the best things I’ve done this year to help prevent burnout at work (and improve my mindfulness in my personal life) is to dive into notification settings on my computers and phone. Nothing sends me a notification without my consent! Here are the things that work for me:

2023 reading review

By Kelly Greening Moore

On 27th June 2024

In Personal

Last year I posted a long entry about how I relearned how to read. I was really pleased to hear from friends and colleagues about how they enjoyed that post! I’m back with my review of 2023, where I read even more books. I set a target of 50 and read 79; it’s a little annoying that I didn’t make it to 80, but by New Year’s Eve I was in the midst of the seventh Expanse novel (read more about them below – they’re generally more than 500 pages!) and I definitely wouldn’t have made it. It gave me a strong start to 2024!

Photo taken from the top of Risshaku-ji temple, Yamadera, Yamagata, Japan. It shows temple buildings in the foreground, and a beautiful valley in the background.

A six-month review!

By Kelly Greening Moore

On 20th February 2024

In Personal, Work

I’m looking back at my last post where I lamented it being two months between posts. This time, it’s been six months, hasn’t it? I hope you’ve all been well and 2024 has been kind to you so far.

Over the last six months, I’ve started between five and ten drafts of blog posts and never found the time or energy to finish them. I have some great ideas – analysis of a phishing email (I can’t figure out how best to structure it), slow productivity (hugely close to my heart at the moment), my personal 2023 reading review (when I’m terrible at putting critical review of media into words), and some others.

A screenshot of a Windows 11 desktop, showing the Company Portal app with the Apps catalogue displayed.

Ebb and flow (with an emphasis on flow)

By Kelly Greening Moore

On 30th August 2023

In Work

When I started this blog, I was hoping to post weekly, or fortnightly. Unfortunately, at this point, my last post was over two months ago!

It’s just been a busy couple of months.

I’m really grateful that we were able to increase capacity in our team some time ago, but I know I’ve got a lot of work to do on myself, to make sure that I hand work over and delegate it correctly — while my role doesn’t have the responsibility of managing people, I do manage workstreams for my area of Infrastructure, and I need to take on less myself when I have a really hardworking, skilled and helpful team.

Articles of interest – 19th June ’23

By Kelly Greening Moore

On 19th June 2023

In Personal

A bit of a different format this week. When I’m not reading an absolute ton of books, I’m reading interesting articles to try and stay on top of what’s going on in the world, mostly in the technology sector. Here’s a host of articles I’ve read recently and thought I would share.

“Your computer needs to restart for updates!”

By Kelly Greening Moore

On 14th June 2023

In Work

I know. It feels like the updates are never-ending. And on rare occasions, an update goes wrong and you wonder if it’s worth it. Let me thank you for tolerating them and explain what the main different types of updates are, and explain why it’s so important.

Staying secure and private in public

By Kelly Greening Moore

On 25th May 2023

In Work

Over the weekend, I travelled to London on the train to meet up with family, and we went to see Moulin Rouge at the theatre. In both of those situations, I heard and saw some incredible potential for personal data leaks. (The show was amazing, by the way!)

On the train, we ended up seated with another group of adults who chatted for a good 90 minutes about their own financial affairs, and those of their close family and friends. Did they even think twice about who was listening? It certainly didn’t help that it was the quiet zone, and they were the only people talking.

MFA and password managers

By Kelly Greening Moore

On 3rd May 2023

In Work

I’m going to mention some products and apps I use in this post. I am not affiliated with them and these should not be perceived as recommendations from my employer.

Let’s start with some definitions. MFA stands for multi-factor authentication, which you might also know as 2FA (two-factor authentication) or 2SV (two-step verification). You sign in to an online account using your username and password, and then you have to enter a code from a text message, call, or app, or you might approve a push notification in an app. You might also plug in a security key — I have a couple of Yubikeys.

At first it feels inconvenient to have that extra step, but it stops attackers or bots from getting into your accounts if they have your password, because chances are they don’t have your phone, biometric data, or security key. You’ve probably seen simulated phishing emails as part of your IT training that might be trying to trick you into typing your work account address and password into a website that will steal them. If you do unfortunately fall victim to this, MFA will protect you if someone tries to log in with your credentials. A commonly quoted statistic is that MFA will prevent about 99% of account breaches.

Your role in application security

By Kelly Greening Moore

On 26th April 2023

In Work

What do you consider when you think of the applications you use at work?