Tech Solutions to the Climate Crisis, and the Dream of a Better World
22/06/2020
Reflections on what a software engineer can do to tackle the climate crisis.
Forging my Future
02/02/2020
I review the past year, ponder what worked and what didn't, and think about what to change for 2020.
Encouraging train travel over aviation
04/07/2019
Why are plane tickets so much cheaper than train tickets, and how do we encourage more people to take the train?
What can we do about Climate Change?
26/06/2019
A rundown of the many and various ways humanity can tackle Climate Change.
A dive into grid-scale Energy Storage options
13/06/2019
An overview of what grid-scale energy storage is, why it is more important than ever, and the many and varied technologies that can be used to implement it.
Carbon Credits and Carbon Offsetting
12/05/2019
In a bid to understand carbon credits and carbon offsetting, I go on a deep dive into the topic, exploring what they are, how they came about, and the various upsides and downsides of the technology.
An Overview of Electricity in the UK
02/05/2019
An overview of electricity generation in the UK, including what the UK's sources of power are, how they've changed over time, as well as a bit of a dive into the history of the electricity sector and the various iterations it has gone through over the years.
Why do I care about Climate Change?
30/04/2019
A kick-off post for my climate change work - why I care about climate change, and what I hope to acheive by focussing on it.
Why I built this site
25/04/2019
I give in to a long-held desire to build my own site, and ramble about why and how I built it.
Why lifting?
25/04/2019
A brief meander into why I like powerlifting, and what it means to me.
The Future
15/03/2019
Trying to figure out what I do next in life, and what feels meaningful to me, after a lot of following my nose.
Fixing a Jupyter kernel connection issue
14/03/2019
Fixing Jupyter kernel connection issues caused by dependencies not doing what they should.
Launching Sublime Text from the Command Line
18/02/2019
A quick how-to on getting the command-line launcher for Sublime text hooked up and working in your shell
What is Data Engineering?
10/12/2018
An overview of Data Engineering - what is it, how does it work, and an overview of some of the main frameworks used.
Rediscovering balance
26/11/2018
Why I've quit my job and am taking some time out from work.
MVP isn't just a buzzword
01/08/2018
Despite my best intentions, I over-engineered a bunch of stuff, rather than talking to the actual users, and ended up wasting a bunch of my time.
Python Mutable Defaults
31/05/2018
I found out why you shouldn't use mutable objects as default arguments in functions, the hard way.
Connecting services behind IAP on App Engine
26/03/2018
Some of the trials and tribulations involved in getting IAP working on Google App Engine (especially when you don't have an extensive full-stack background).
Pickling Problems
29/01/2018
Debugging pickling problems in Spark, thrown up when migrating from Python 2.x to 3
Spline experiments
22/01/2018
Mucking around with randomness and splines in JavaScript, inspired by Inconvergent.
Streaming job logs from Cloud DataProc
08/01/2018
Streaming logs in near real-time from Cloud DataProc jobs as they run, straight to the command line.
Bermann
17/11/2017
After discovering how hard it was to unit-test Spark at any sort of scale, I made a unit-testing framework for Spark RDDs called Bermann.
Monopoly
14/11/2017
Some ponderings on the current state of the internet, and how a few companies are dominating our every waking moment
Cancelling Frozen Shells
28/10/2017
After getting frustrated with SSH sessions freezing if the underlying connection dropped, I dug in further, and discovered a whole extra set of escape commands for SSH sessions.
<3 Python Imports
26/10/2017
Investigating some shenanigans involving relative imports and import ordering in Python modules.
py-dataproc
21/10/2017
I used DataProc extensively, and whilst I loved the service, I hated the auto-generated APIs for Python. So I wrote my own (with blackjack etc).
Overenthusiastic CHOWNership
17/10/2017
I ran sudo chown -R /usr/bin and you wouldn't believe what happened next!