Long and short-form thoughts, equal parts technical and personal, collected in chronological order.
In the current release of Safari, I'm seeing some new behaviour when working with SVGs, gradients, and opacity.
A few commands I have in my notes for swap memory on low resource servers, e.g. a cheap VPS.
I had the misfortune of being almost denied boarding my recent Japan Airlines flight from London Heathrow to Tokyo Haneda when I made an interesting service selection.
Enhancing the lucky-dip purchase experience by taking inspiration from capsule toy machines.
It was interesting to see different adjustments made to the same photo..
I occasionally need to change the content creation date when copying a notebook file as a starting template for a new one.
I spent part of my sabbatical on a journey around Japan, during which I noticed and snapped pictures of some interesting colours and patterns.
I was unexpectedly gifted a pen plotter for Christmas last year! A few months later, I've got it set up and a workflow ready to go.
Anker Innovations got in touch a few weeks ago and said they were big fans of DataCrayon, and if I'd like to review one of their current Soundcore products. Being a big fan of Anker products myself, I was excited to review the Motion Boom Plus.
I had this feeling that something was missing. Of course, I realised that I'd made the mistake of beginning to write without first creating a static site generator.
A theme I created for Jupyter Lab to make things just the right amount of purple.
I use the iPad for annotating papers, and sometimes for rough designs early on in projects. Otherwise, it sits on this mount for Sidecar displaying things like Spotify, Notes, Reminders, Calendar, and Mail.
How and why I created my first data visualisation SaaS with D3.js, FastAPI, and WooCommerce.
Before embarking on this new venture, I had to make several important decisions on where I wanted to commit my time. The first of these decisions meant resigning from my posts as Senior Academic at my former university and Head of Data Science at my former company.
Over the last three years, I've occasionally been using a MacBook Pro 13-inch 2018. Unfortunately, it has been the worst laptop experience of my existence!
Docker Toolbox installs a VirtualBox virtual machine running the boot2docker Linux distribution. Because of this, additional steps are needed when sharing volumes between the host operating system and a Docker container.