Lines on maps vs words in heads
Probably not that much
I shouldn't have had to do this
Overthinking my overthinking
Branches != deployments
Micromorts, Bayes and you
This was much too hard!
The heydays and naydays of pre-WW2 Europe
By James Nestor. Not great, but very interactive.
I'm not very good at cartography, am I.
Postscript to the post on video calls
Much harder than it should be...
Much easier than you think
Turns out speaking coherently into a voice-to-text engine is hard!
Sharing for posterity
Bits and pieces cobbled together setting up a Raspberry Pi home server
Quick before we all get bored of it.
Ever wondered what the south-by-east-est part of your country is?
I bet (stupidly?) that coal will be cheaper than batteries in 2028
How to set up a production workflow on Prefect
TLDR: It’s great, but developing countries need more
Only one more push before the Med
Gore-Tex as a metaphor for monads
Long live Mapbox tiles
aka, Oatly is probably fine
Workarounds abounds
Graphing the world's water basins with Neo4j
Turns out a billion insert statements isn't the best way.
If you ain't first yer last!
A recap of some of my more memorable excursions and hikes in the mountains.
After lots of messing around and figuring out, we're one step from moving to Oxford!
Adverbs, adverbs, every where, nor any use for them.
Bit of a horror, but it works.
The software side was disappointingly easy; the hardware unsurprisingly messy.
It's time to incorporate real-world outcomes in your loss function.
Our hard work mapping the global power grid finally got published!
Michael Kloos wrote about our time in California and got it published in the MCSA journal.
Winter is coming, and with it, short days. I decided to make a bright, pleasing sunrise light.
Random updates as an excuse to publish a new post here.
I added two new sections to this site, one for photos and the other for books.
Data is a key enabler in boosting increased access to modern energy sources.
Recursion and objects in Python: footguns galore.
A better tool for planning electricity access.
A lot of the work I do relates to finding the cost-optimal of bringing electricity to more people.
A basic web map featuring cool places and things discovered in the last few months in Barcelona.
Making a web map in JavaScript that pulls data from Google Sheets.
New thoughts and models to plan electricity access.
Is there any statistical value to be dredged out of the my seven-ish 4,000 metre peaks?
A small project aimed at supporting the Mogadishu tech community.
A silly experiment to see if it was possible.
Using OSM data to plan mini-grid layouts.
Having fun with our very detailed book club book score records.
Two colleagues and I put together a report on the benefits of open data in off-grid access.
A month in some beautiful mountains, with one goal: Bugaboo Spire.
I set out to create a model that would conduct massive scale hydrological modelling.
We knew this already, but our three weeks in Mexico drove the message home on an almost daily basis.
This model is used to determine the best way to achieve universal electrification.
At the end of June I joined my brothers for a jaunt in the Richtersveld Transfrontier Park.
Rock climbing in Catalonia and Kazbek mountaineering expedition.
Fun with the Ultimatum Game in Java, from long ago.
Flexing my Java skills in high-school.