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Phasing out my laptop setup script
February 9, 2017 TL;DR - I switched from a complicated script that personalised my development laptop to a setup minimal enough to make it irrelevant. I've used an...
Heroku Deploy button treasure hunt with GitHub and BigQuery
January 12, 2017 Sometime last year I listened to a Changelog podcast episode about the GitHub data that's been made available on BigQuery, Google's tool for querying large datasets. Over...
A Weekend with The Google Cloud Platform
December 26, 2016 For some time I've been looking to consolidate my 'side project infrastructure'. I have two projects running Digital Ocean droplets (serializer.io and standpoint); json-charlieegan3 runs...
TIL at Container Camp
September 9, 2016 I was lucky enough to get today off and attend Container Camp. Still relatively new to
Things I like about Rust
July 11, 2016 I've recently completed my first useful Rust application. standpoint is a demo of an information extraction approach implemented as part of my honours project. I...
2016 Macbook for software development: First Impressions
July 11, 2016 I had a little trouble with my 2012 rMBP and chose an m7 Retina Macbook as a replacement - after reading positive comments about the...
Getting a full refund for a faulty Macbook under UK consumer law
June 24, 2016 Below I describe the process of making a UK consumer law claim for a faulty Apple laptop. This write-up represents almost 3 months of...