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Philip McMahon

Philip McMahon is a software developer working at the Guardian.

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer composite

    Twelve charts that show how Labour won by a landslide

    Conservative collapse ensures Labour is victorious – but the party’s overall vote share has stayed relatively static. These charts explain how the election was won and lost

May 2024

  • Fake shops illustration

    Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’

    Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests

April 2024

  • Qubes OS running Securedrop Workstation and Dangerzone

    Engineering blog
    When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian

    The latest version of the whistleblowing platform SecureDrop runs on the Qubes operating system. At the Guardian we used the Salt management engine to set up a Qubes environment where journalists could safely interrogate sensitive documents.

March 2024

  • BlackBoxPodcast

    Full Story
    The hunt for ClothOff: the deepfake porn app – Full Story podcast

  • Black Box podcast illustration

    Black Box
    Episode 2 – The hunt for ClothOff: the deepfake porn app

February 2024

  • An image of ‘Ewan Liam Torres’ likely to have been generated by AI.

    Revealed: the names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app

    Exclusive: Guardian investigation for podcast series Black Box reveals names connected to app that generated non-consensual images of children around the world

December 2023

  • Fusion of human head and fractal shapes

    Rizz, Barbenheimer and hallucination: the breakthrough words in the Guardian in 2023

    ‘I have limited rizz’ said an actor while Barbenheimer refers to the year’s most talked about films

August 2023

  • A mix of dark and light clouds in the sky on a day of sunshine and showers. Seasonal weather, Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, UK - 10 May 2023

    Engineering blog
    Aurora Serverless – a migration story

    On our team we swapped databases 6 times in a year. We’ve landed on Aurora Serverless V2 – was it worth it?

May 2022

  • International Journalism Festival 2022 posters, Perugia

    Engineering blog
    What we learned at the International Journalism Festival

    In April, the Guardian’s Investigations and Reporting team were lucky enough to attend the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. Here’s some stuff that we learned.

February 2022

  • Ellis Murphy-Richards

    Warnings over NHS mental health care issued in 14 young deaths in five years

    Coroners have issued reports to prevent future deaths in at least 14 cases involving CAMHS in England

October 2021

  • Property Wrap / Tina and Philipp Green / Mikhail Gutseriev / King Abdullah / Uhuru Kenyatta

    Pandora papers
    Revealed: Pandora papers unmask owners of offshore-held UK property worth £4bn

    Analysis of leak identifies 600 previously anonymous owners from world leaders to monarchs and oligarchs

November 2018

  • An elephant picking up some greenery

    Engineering blog
    Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

    In April the Guardian switched off the Mongo DB cluster used to store our content after completing a migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS. This post covers why and how

November 2017

  • The hack day begins...

    Engineering blog
    Guardian Hack Day November 2017!

    We’re back again for another hack day! Over today and tomorrow the Guardian Digital team will be working on ideas to change the way we tell the news.

October 2016

  • Students learning about rapid iteration during the UX and Product workshop

    Engineering blog
    Ada Lovelace Day 2016

    On 11 October we celebrated Ada Lovelace day with a day of workshops and inspiring talks, attended by 50 school students from years 9 through to sixth form

June 2016

  • First picture from the Hack Days

    Engineering blog
    Guardian Hack Day June 2016 - as it happened

  • Let hacking commence!

    Engineering blog
    The web we want hack day

January 2015

  • Code screenshot referring to Guardian graduate scheme

    Engineering blog
    Five months in software development at the Guardian - what we’ve learned

    Three of the Guardian’s graduates reflect on what they have learnt so far.