Software engineer at the BBC. Former Raspberry Pi Community Manager. Creator of GPIO Zero and piwheels.
Last year I came across a few paper family trees from different sections of my family my Gran had collected, and I decided to look for a way to digitise them and bring them all together. Firstly I scanned them all in to make digital copies, and then I looked to see if Ubuntu had any family...
There's a football manager game I got for my birthday when I was nine years old: FIFA Soccer Manager 97. I spent countless hours playing it as a child, trying to win the league, the cup or just avoid getting the sack! Two years later I got a newer manager game with better graphics and more...
I realised I hadn't blogged anything outdoorsy for an awfully long time. I used to occasionally post about travels and adventures, or my kayaking in general, but I guess I haven't done anything blogworthy in a while. I've been kayaking (on-and-off) for over twenty years, mostly in the Lake District...
Last Summer I wrote about building my own static site generator called Beemo. I went on to use it as the generator for a few other websites I manage, and made a few enhancements along the way. Beemo Recently I had the idea to use lars (a web server log analyser written by Dave Jones) as the...
Last week was PyCon UK, which took place in Manchester for the first time. I've attended the conference every year it's run since 2014, and each year I've given a talk. This year I decided not to submit a talk, instead trying my hand at running a workshop on "Data modelling with Pydantic". Luckily,...
