» An Updated Tech Stack: Remix
I recently changed this website's tech stack to Remix and it's worth explaining why.
I recently changed this website's tech stack to Remix and it's worth explaining why.
This last weekend I went to a farm, left behind the internet, and read a book. The book blew my mind a bit!
Amazon CodeGuru was just released at AWS re:Invent 2019 and a lot of the coverage has been around CodeGuru Reviewer so I'm here to show you a little of what CodeGuru Profiler can do.
A rambling summary of our wee trip to Thought Bubble 2019 in Harrogate - from the perspective of a comic book noob!
I spent a couple hours trying to resolve an UnsatisfiedLinkError with OpenCV and Java on Mac, I found the solution.
My level 4 university project was an investigation into the scalability of ROS. This post looks at how I evaluated ROS' ability to vertically scale.
I've been really frustrated with the battery life on my Moto X Style recently, but I'm wary of rooting due to my dependence on Google services (and sense of security!).
I failed trying to find a source which listed the Counter Groups and Counter Names of all the Hadoop MapReduce system counters. So I compiled a list of them all.
I came across a useful fix for Android's AlarmReceiver's extras always coming out as null. We need to marshal the Parcelable to a byte array.
I spent a few evenings over the past couple weeks to migrate this site over to AWS, here's why I did it.
I've been cramming for my NINE exams over the past 3 weeks, part of the revision has been reading mandatory technical books. Are they actually useful?
This week I've been writing an experience report on my 6 month university team project. I wanted to share some thoughts on the difficulty of reflection on previous experience in software engineering.
In February my friends and I attended St Andrews' hackathon. It went fairly successfully, and I learned some cool new tech! This post covers the details.
I've been thinking about what university courses I want to do, and what I SHOULD do. Are they necessarily the same thing?
A rambling post around my first baby-steps in game development.
In a previous post, I spoke about my application experience for an Amazon internship. Here's how the interview stage went.
This weekend I made some contributions to open source repos on GitHub. It made me realise how easy it is to contribute something meaningful.
In October 2015 I applied for a Software Development Engineer Intern position at Amazon Development Centre in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Here's my experience.
Operating Systems are a standard course for Comp Sci undergrads. How deep down the rabbit hole should we go?
I spent a week or two researching various Django CMS platforms. I ended up settling on Wagtail. Here's why.
Why you can't easily do fancy things that require remembering state with GitHub Pages.
Thomas Fletcher is a Maths/Physics undergrad who has been working on a poker hand analysis tool in Haskell.
How to take the difference of multiple multipolygons with JavaScript.
I recently began working with Mapbox instead of Google Maps. Colour me impressed!
Many communities of young software engineers focus on several of the largest software houses in the world - why?
I recently began using a smartwatch daily. I've found it's improved my life in some ways, and detracted in others.
Despite mainstream media telling you to praise netflix engineers.
Many view reading as a waste of valuable time, so why should you set aside time for it?
HTTP/2 might be the best web development since the dawn of AJAX.
My team achieved first place at the Glasgow University Tech Society Hackathon of 2015! Here's a little about what we created.
A quick tutorial on setting an IP on RPi 2.
Code example and tutorial on how to create a simple mouse tracker and logger for web pages using JavaScript.
My University set up a slightly broken Jenkins install for team projects.
Cliche: A journey begins with a single step.