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Unboxing my System76 Gazelle Pro
In a previous post, I explained my reasoning behind purchasing a Gazelle Pro laptop from System76. Having never bought direct from a US company before, I had reservations - whether the machine would...
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After writing about choosing and unboxing, I was going to write this post after two weeks of using my new laptop. It’s been over a month because I’ve busy with a Coursera course and – well – the laptop...
View ArticleFinishing my MSc. Dissertation
I finished my dissertation a couple of months ago, and since graduated. Finishing was a great feeling, but I certainly remember the time when I thought I was losing control of the whole thing. I...
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China Miéville’s Embassytown finally made it to the top of my reading list, after the recommendation on Terminally Incoherent. I have to agree with everything Luke says, it’s a pretty compelling sci-fi...
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Continuous Integration for Researchers?
TL;DR Could tailored continuous integration help scientific researchers avoid errors in their data and code? Computer Error? Nature reported on the growing problem of errors in the computer code...
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Node.js Microservice Optimisations
A few performance, scalability and availability tips for running Node.js microservices. Unlike monolithic architectures, microservices typically have a relatively small footprint and achieve their...
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Expressively Selecting a Strategy using ES2016
I find myself needing to select a strategy based on some arbitrary function of input often enough to look for a neat solution. Maybe it’s the output of a remote service that I want to decorate with a...
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Recommended Tech Podcasts
I think podcasts are a great way of keeping up with a topic in that otherwise dead brain time when you’re travelling to work, washing the dishes and cleaning the floor. Here’s a few of the best that...
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CRUNCH 2017, Budapest
Friday 20th October 2017 at the Hungarian Railway History Park I decided to attend CRUNCH 2017 earlier this year when I was working in data engineering and it was the first data engineering conference...
View ArticleEasier Clojure Releases without Commits
Have you ever tried to use the lein-release plugin to release an artifact into Clojars? It works by automatically updating version information in your project.clj and adding commits to your source...
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