Software engineer at the BBC. Former Raspberry Pi Community Manager. Creator of GPIO Zero and piwheels.
Software engineer at the BBC. Former Raspberry Pi Community Manager. Creator of GPIO Zero and piwheels.
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. Recently I had the idea to use lars (a web server log analyser written by Dave Jones) as the basis of an...
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,...
I have a habit of revamping my website every few years. Since starting on Blogger some ... 19 years ago I've moved between platforms and redesigned the layout several times over. This time I decided to go for a static site build, which means not requiring managing WordPress plugins and updates, or...
Cambridge-based hosting company Mythic Beasts — long-time friends of Raspberry Pi people and products — launched a unique service back in 2016: Raspberry Pi hosting, what they call their "Pi Cloud". When I developed the first version of piwheels, it made sense to make use of this service to...