My favourite posts

I’ve written a lot of posts – this page has some of my favourites. If you’d rather read the complete list, I have another page with those too.

Feb 2020		A remote-controlled oven is a safety nightmare
Feb 2020		Building Wellcome Collection’s new archival storage service
Nov 2019		How I scan and organise my paperwork
Oct 2019		Sans I/O programming: what, why and how (PyCon UK talk)
Sep 2019		Drawing with triangular coordinates in SVG
Aug 2019		Getting a tint colour from an image with Python and k-means
Jun 2019		An inescapable conclusion
Jun 2019		Reading a Chinese dictionary / 读一本中文字典
May 2019		Questions to ask when writing a trans inclusion policy
May 2019		Creating a locking service in a Scala type class
Mar 2019		Creating a GitHub Action to auto-merge pull requests
Mar 2019		A day out to the Forth Bridge
Feb 2019		Working with really large objects in S3
Feb 2019		More advice on running inclusive and welcoming events
Jan 2019		Monki Gras 2019: The Curb Cut Effect
Nov 2018		My visit to the Aberdulais Falls
Sep 2018		Assume worst intent (designing against the abusive ex)
Aug 2018		Implementing parallel scan in DynamoDB with Scanamo
Aug 2018		Ideas for inclusive conferences and events
Jul 2018		A robot leaked my SSH keys
May 2018		Drawing ASCII bar charts
May 2018		Beware of logged errors from subprocess
Jan 2018		Getting every message in an SQS queue
Nov 2017		Downloading logs from Amazon CloudWatch
Nov 2017		A plumber’s guide to Git
Oct 2017		Four ways to underline text in LaTeX
Jun 2017		A visit to the Crossness pumping station
Mar 2017		A few examples of extensions in Python-Markdown
Oct 2016		The A stands for Asexual
Oct 2016		Creating low contrast wallpapers with Pillow
Oct 2016		Tiling the plane with Pillow
Jun 2016		Introduction to property-based testing
Apr 2016		Treat regular expressions as code, not magic