ChatGPT is an absolutely incredible tool and if you’re not already using it, you should be. You really should. It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you do for a living – it’s so versatile that it can turn its hand to pretty much anything you want it to do. Among many other things, […]
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My 2022 in Retrospect – A Python Analysis
This article is a bit different to most of the other ones on this blog, as it focuses on data analysis rather than software development – making it my first analysis article since International Football Results Analysis, way back in June 2021. Today I’m not analysing football data, however; instead, I’m analysing my own diary. […]
Anagramageddon – Fight for Territory and Find Anagrams as You Battle Against the Clock!
I’ve created a new word game called Anagramageddon, played on a single computer by between two and four players. In a nutshell it involves users taking it in turns to (A) select a letter and (B) enter a word that can be formed from all of their letters. It’s a competitive game, and the time […]
Using React to build a Wordle tracker
Even if nobody else in the world played Wordle but me, I’m sure I’d still enjoy it well enough. However, there’s little doubting that one of the major appeals of the game is how easy it is to compare your own performance against others. It’s why the most common WhatsApp message sent between myself and […]
6 Talking Points from Pawnfork
The other day I published my latest app – a little desktop-based number whose aim it is to make memorising chess openings as easy as falling off a log (this is apparently a real idiom). It’s called Pawnfork, and you can download it here. Of course, it’s not every day that I fire out a […]
Optimise Your Chess Opening Play With the Help of My New App
I have created a simple new desktop app for memorising chess openings, and called it Pawnfork. There’s not too much to say about the app from the perspective of a user that I don’t say in my introductory video, which you can find above, but of course there is plenty to say about the development […]
Migrating a Spotify Listen-Logging App to AWS
Welcome back, dear reader. It’s been a bloody long time since I “done you a post”, which is a shame not so much in a literary sense as a financial one: Bluehost absolutely rinsed me a few months back with the cost of renewing my web hosting contract, and my subsequent inactivity is making that […]
A Catan Love Story; or, As My Miller Father Used To Remind Us Regularly Over the Dinner Table: No Pain, No Grain
Old and wizened you must have grown since last I put fingertip to keyboard key, to persist my thoughts in the digital universe; like the great Dumbledore, siphoning off memories into his Pensieve. A quaint little article published all the way back in November 2021 was my last offering at the altar of Will May’s […]
Soccer Simulation – Creating the Team Formation Graphics
Three months ago I released a web app called Soccer Simulation, which you can find here. The app, which in and of itself took around four months in the building, was really the culmination of a lifetime interest in football simulation, which you can read about here. During the development of the app, I had […]
Fun and Games with SQLAlchemy
I’ve spent quite a bit of time over the past couple of days transforming the data access layer of one of my Flask applications from a purely psycopg2-based mess to an SQLAlchemy-based not-quite-such-a-mess, and I thought I’d share some thoughts on the process. Introduction As a former data analyst, my face has been permanently sootened […]