Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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You Can’t Hide Behind the Trees…
Taken with my little Sony point-and-shoot with the polarized lens of my sunglasses as a makeshift filter for the hazy sunlight…
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Battling with Django Inheritance: Subclass Casting
For a day or so now I’ve been battling with Django’s model inheritance, which has a particularly frustrating approach to dynamic polymorphism. The problem is that when one is implementing…
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RIP eeePC 701
It is with great sadness that I inform you all that my Asus eeePC 701 has finally exhaled it’s last 7-inch breath, wheezing under the weight of the many superfluous…
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Privacy rights and the standard of legal protection of these rights in the digital domain
This document was written as my submission for the computer science writing course I took in my third year of study at the University of York. It attempts to summarise…
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Morning Musings
I thought getting a kitten would keep me company. I already have a cat who is still only young but old enough to want to sleep all day. The idea…
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Beautiful sculpted rooftop by BIG
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
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Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
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The author has only anecdotal support for his assertion, but I have the same experience: “Configuration bugs are a disturbingly large portion of engineering decisions which cause outages”
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Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
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Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
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Having often intuitively leaned towards a “version control” mental paradigm for spreadsheets, documents, designs, photos, etc. this project is super interesting – version control for everything
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Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.