Thu, Apr 18, 2024
Notes on taking a trailer of boats to camp.
This was my first real journey with a trailer full of boats.
Fri, Jan 12, 2024
When young, I never understood the point of a journal or diary.
Wed, Jan 3, 2024
This year was a busy year. At first glance, I’m not sure what progress I’ve made.
Fri, Nov 24, 2023
Peach Powerline is used for analysing the Peach systems logger data.
Sat, Dec 17, 2022
I once spent a few weeks trying to use Vim. I liked the principle of navigating and editing texts with commands.
Wed, Feb 16, 2022
Sometimes it’s useful to review an existing codebase. But how?
Thu, Jan 20, 2022
CloudFormation Rules are a lesser known feature that allow you to validate parameters of CloudFormation templates.
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
How long would it take you to row 2000 meters?
Sat, Mar 27, 2021
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Fri, Mar 19, 2021
I am often curious about other people’s experiences of courses. Is it useful?
Wed, Mar 3, 2021
In my first technical role, I managed to get stuck for two weeks.
Sat, Jan 23, 2021
Here’s a list of useful kit I’ve collected since I’ve started rowing.
Sat, Apr 6, 2019
April 5th has many finance departments rushing in the UK. It’s the last day of the tax year.
Sun, Feb 17, 2019
When I was younger, I was very socially awkward. I didn’t know how to be around other people.
Sun, Jan 20, 2019
We all use the wrong ball Go to most squash clubs in the country and you’ll see the double yellow dot ball everywhere.
Sat, Jan 19, 2019
Squash has a problem There’s not much data available for squash membership, but read the (squash) news and you can see that the game is facing challenges.
Sun, Nov 18, 2018
Congrats! Well done for finding this post. This is my dog Saffy.
Sat, Aug 11, 2018
Exercises to practice Stand midcourt on one side. Hit a high loop, then drop it using the new technique.
Wed, Jun 6, 2018
How to rename Linked Services in Azure Data Factory If you’re reading this, you’ve probably hit the same issue I did!
Sun, Apr 22, 2018
How to set up SQL Server Dev edition on your Windows Docker Machine (and access it from localhost!
Mon, Apr 9, 2018
One thing I’ve been meaning to fix on this site was changing the logo from the default for the theme.
Mon, Oct 16, 2017
The Guests of the Graham Norton Show Sick, lying on the sofa trying to pass an evening.
Tue, Oct 10, 2017
The Office of National Statistics is a brilliant source of interesting data sets.
Wed, Sep 6, 2017
I am a big fan of ggplot2. As one of the most popular R packages, I’m clearly not alone.
Sat, Aug 19, 2017
What is Spark? Yesterday I completed the Data Camp Introduction to Sparklyr course.
Mon, Aug 14, 2017
The Visual Display of Quantative Information by Edward Tufte Summary Last weekend I was browsing my local when I was pleasantly surprised to come across “The Visual Display of Quantative Information” by Edward Tufte.
Wed, Aug 2, 2017
API’s in R Amanda from Rstudio recently hosted a very helpful Webinar on API’s in R.
Tue, Aug 1, 2017
Two Years at IBM On July 27th 2017 I reached my two year anniversairy at IBM.
Sat, Jul 29, 2017
A Morning Routine Whilst listening to my usual parade of podcasts last week, I came across one discussing morning routines of “successful people”.
Wed, Jul 19, 2017
“Think Positive”. I’ve heard it multiple times. It can make a big difference in what you’re doing.
Mon, Jul 17, 2017
Burgers For the past few months I’ve been slacking. Burger nights have become a common weekend dinner.
Thu, Jun 15, 2017
The majority of the food I eat (and enjoy), I wouldn’t have considered 5 years ago.
Sun, Jun 11, 2017
Whilst the UK is digesting the results of the General Election this weekend, I went down a series of rabbit holes that led to this great article on how the exit polls are used to predict the election results.
Sun, Jun 11, 2017
I came across two great new words today (in the Economist - Thanks Emily).
Sat, Jun 10, 2017
After creating the skeleton of the site using blogdown, my first goal is to get it up and running on netlify, using a free domain name.
Sat, Jun 10, 2017
This is my first post on my website. It can only go up from here.