All posts
This is every post I’ve ever written, organised by category. You can subscribe to my posts as an Atom feed. Enjoy!
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Categories
- Amazon Web Services
- Blogging about blogging
- Build automation and build systems
- Digital preservation
- Diversity, inclusion and accessibility
- Git
- Glitch apps
- LaTeX
- Languages
- Organising PyCon UK
- Photography
- Productivity
- Programming and code
- Python
- Scala
- Shell scripting
- Talks
- Terraform
- Working with macOS
- Uncategorised
Amazon Web Services
Blogging about blogging
| Mar 2020 | A Jekyll filter for adding non-breaking spaces | |
| Jun 2019 | A Jekyll filter for obfuscating email addresses | |
| Feb 2019 | Checking Jekyll sites with HTMLProofer | |
| Oct 2017 | What happens when you overengineer a static site? | |
| May 2016 | Finding 404s and broken pages in my Apache logs | |
| Dec 2014 | RSS linkposts in Pelican | |
| Sep 2014 | Playing with 404 pages |
Build automation and build systems
| Mar 2019 |  | Creating a GitHub Action to auto-merge pull requests |
| Aug 2018 | Finding slow builds in Travis | |
| Aug 2018 | Selective sudo on Travis | |
| Mar 2018 | The Hypothesis continuous release process | |
| Dec 2017 | Your repo should be easy to build, and how |
Digital preservation
| Feb 2020 | Storing multiple, human-readable versions of BagIt bags | |
| Feb 2020 | | Building Wellcome Collection’s new archival storage service |
| Oct 2019 | Digital preservation at Wellcome Collection |
Diversity, inclusion and accessibility
Git
| Mar 2018 | Notes on A Plumber’s Guide to Git | |
| Nov 2017 | Pruning old Git branches | |
| Nov 2017 | | A plumber’s guide to Git |
| Sep 2017 | Some useful Git commands for CI | |
| Jun 2015 | Useful Git features: a per-clone exclude file |
Glitch apps
| Jan 2020 | An interactive map of British railway stations 🚂 | |
| Jan 2020 | Generating pride-themed Norse valknuts with Python 🌈 |
LaTeX
| Jan 2020 | A Docker image to run LaTeX | |
| Oct 2017 | | Four ways to underline text in LaTeX |
Languages
| Jul 2019 | Ten braille facts / ⠼⠁⠚⠀⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑⠀⠋⠁⠉⠞⠎ | |
| Jun 2019 | | Reading a Chinese dictionary / 读一本中文字典 |
Organising PyCon UK
| Sep 2018 | Signs of the time | |
| Sep 2018 | PyCon UK 2018 | |
| Aug 2018 | Making the venue maps for PyCon UK | |
| Oct 2017 | Lightning talks | |
| Sep 2016 | Silence is golden | |
| Sep 2016 | Live captioning at conferences |
Photography
| Mar 2019 | | A day out to the Forth Bridge |
| Nov 2018 | | My visit to the Aberdulais Falls |
| Jun 2017 | | A visit to the Crossness pumping station |
Productivity
| Mar 2020 | Sick leave while working from home |
Programming and code
Python
Scala
| Sep 2019 | Iterating over the entries of a compressed archive (tar.gz) in Scala | |
| May 2019 | | Creating a locking service in a Scala type class |
| Oct 2018 | Custom 404 responses in Finatra |
Shell scripting
| Oct 2016 | A shell alias for tallying data | |
| May 2016 | Safely deleting a file called ‘-rf *’ | |
| Dec 2015 | Pretty printing JSON and XML in the shell | |
| Nov 2015 | Quick shell access for Docker containers | |
| Jul 2015 | Useful Bash features: exit traps |
Talks
| Oct 2019 | | Sans I/O programming: what, why and how (PyCon UK talk) |
| Sep 2019 | Slides for PyCon UK 2019 “Sans I/O programming” | |
| Jan 2019 | | Monki Gras 2019: The Curb Cut Effect |
| Sep 2018 | | Assume worst intent (designing against the abusive ex) |
| Sep 2018 | Building trust in an age of suspicious minds | |
| Apr 2018 | (Anti) Social Media | |
| Nov 2017 | Using privilege to improve inclusion | |
| Oct 2017 | PyCon UK 2017 resources | |
| Sep 2017 | Ode to docopt | |
| Jun 2016 | | Introduction to property-based testing |
Terraform
| Nov 2019 | Preparing for Terraform 0.12: fixing module sources | |
| May 2019 | Finding unused variables in a Terraform module | |
| Jan 2019 | Debugging a stuck Terraform plan |