Monthly Notes - June 2025 🔗
Fitness Cycling has been much more fun than I expected (more on this later), so my running suffered a bit. I ran 90.4km (56.1 miles) I cycled 189.4km [...]
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Monthly Notes - May 2025 🔗
This has been a relatively quiet month (thankfully), I’ve mainly been focused on steady progress with my health, fitness, and just vibing through the [...]
Monthly Notes - April 2025 🔗
This has been a wild month. So much has happened that it’s prompted me to write a mid-year update rather than waiting for my year-in-review post. Desp [...]
We need to talk about islands 🔗
We live in a geography. In a recent (when I first started this) blog post by Robb, he mentioned that Portsmouth is the most densely populated city in [...]
Making MAXIF 🔗
Files are difficult to work with. While file extensions and MIME types are often correct, sometimes they are not. I’ve had this happen many times with [...]
2024 - Tell me more 🔗
This year has been weird and difficult. While a lot has happened, certain things have left me feeling like I did nothing. Thankfully, this post is a t [...]
2023 What happened with me? 🔗
This year has been a year of inward reflection and discovery. Content warning for discussions about mental health. Laser Hair Removal & Transition The [...]
My first games of Warhammer 40k 🔗
Last year, I set myself the goal of playing at least one 1k-point game of 40k. This seemed like a reasonable goal at the time, but I didn’t really sta [...]
Advent of Code is not healthy for me 🔗
This year is the first time I’ve participated in Advent of Code, and it’s caused me some problems and highlighted some issues I need to address. Conte [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 11 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. See my day 01 post to see how the project is set up. To view my solutions in full, check them out on [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 09 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. See my day 01 post to see how the project is set up. To view my solutions in full, check them out on [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 08 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. See my day 01 post to see how the project is set up. To view my solutions in full, check them out on [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 07 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. See my day 01 post to see how the project is set up. To view my solutions in full, check them out on [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 06 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. See my day 01 post to see how the project is set up. To view my solutions in full, check them out on [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 05 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. See my day 01 post to see how the project is set up. To view my solutions in full, check them out on [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 04 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. See my day 01 post to see how the project is set up. To view my solutions in full, check them out on [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 03 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. See my day 01 post to see how the project is set up. To view my solutions in full, check them out on [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 02 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. See my previous post to see how the project is set up. To view my solutions in full, check them out [...]
Advent of Code 2023 - Day 01 🔗
Advent of Code is a yearly programming challenge. I’ve followed other people doing it before and thought I’d take a crack at it this year. Let’s see h [...]
Hackathon - AccelOS 🔗
Yesterday, I attended a hackathon with the theme “Silly Interfaces”. TLDR: I created a game where you had to balance a blob through a maze, changing i [...]
Leveraging Your Type System 🔗
Early last year, I decided to give Rust a go, and as many people can attest, I won’t shut up about it. Fear not; this is not a post about Rust. One of [...]
Hack Pompey 2023 - Blahbarian 🔗
I attended my first hackathon hosted by Hack Pompey, and it went well. tldr: We made a Vampire Survivors style game based around Blahai the Blahbarian [...]
Saving my Chaos Knight 🔗
Packing for my recent house move was a stressful process. Not only was it time-consuming, but some models required extra attention. I’ve always been w [...]
2022 A Year In Review 🔗
2022 has been a year of significant change for me. I’ve wanted to write this since the summer when I thought of this title. I was considering borrowin [...]
Leaving the Twitter nest 🔗
Twitter had never really captured my interest. I used to be, and still mostly am, a private person who rarely shares what they’re up to with the broad [...]
Creating a Micro.blog Theme + Tailwind 🔗
After having messed around with Micro.blog for a while, I decided I wanted to have a go at building my own them. At first, the challenge seemed relati [...]
Transferring a Spotify Playlist 🔗
Transferring playlists on Spotify can be a rather tedious process, there are many different approaches talked about online but I think I may have foun [...]
Optimising Nested Database Operations 🔗
Nested loops - love them or hate them - are often a necessary evil within many Imagine you’ve been given a task; given an array of many objects of cla [...]
An Adventure Into Diffing Algorithms 🔗
A while ago at work, we decided that our current diffing algorithm was not FineDiff, while this ; to separate items and the addition and removal of li [...]
Glory Unto Four 🔗
Disclaimer/Errata This post was retrieved from the archives of an old website. I wrote this just after Christmas during my first year of University, a [...]