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 […]
Category: Python
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 […]
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 […]
Updates to Soccer Simulation
This is just a short post to point out a couple of recent updates to the Soccer Simulation app, inspired by recent suggestions by users. Add custom club names It is now possible to replace club names used in the simulation with your own, custom club names. This feature was requested by a couple of […]
The Grand Unveiling of “Soccer Simulation”
Good morning ladies and gentlemen! This is my first post from my new home of Singapore, where I am currently holed up for a period of two weeks in a “quarantine hotel”, with * only * my wife Kate for company. We’ve been fully locked down for four days now, and overall it’s been surprisingly […]
A History of One Man’s Inexplicable Obsession with Football Simulation
Preamble In preparation for the release of my latest project, a football league simulation built in Python and served as a web app via Flask and Heroku, I thought it would make for a purgative experience to step through the history of my interest in football simulation. For it truly is a long and jumbled […]
International Football Results Analysis
Over the past month and a half I’ve spent my personal project time almost exclusively on what I’ve dubbed the “Soccer Simulation” project, which in a sentence could be summarised as “building out a Flask front end for a football league simulation I built using Python last year”. A true labour of love, this piece […]