All posts
This is every post I’ve ever written, organised by category. You can subscribe to my posts as an Atom feed. Enjoy!
Most recent 10 posts
Amazon Web Services
Blogging about blogging
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
Wellcome Collection
| Oct 2019 | Digital preservation at Wellcome Collection |