John Mathews

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Blog Posts

2022

Data Science Teams

15 April

Advanced googling

5 April

Someone else’s guiding principles after 20 years of programming

22 March

Django CBV method flowchart

16 February

A tool to automatically contact people

14 February

How to size bets

9 February

Managing environment variables with Direnv

28 January

Adding italic text to iTerm2

28 January

The Psychology of Computer Programming

17 January

2021

How to write a book

24 December

103 attempts to make it work

15 December

Gell-Mann amnesia effect

14 December

3 December

Chezmoi: Part 2

2 December

Powerful Python

29 November

23 November

Virtual environments and python versions

1 November

Logging Best Practices

7 October

How to get rich without getting lucky

5 October

1 Peter 1 vs 10

10 September

27 August

25 August

Daddy-Daughter To-Do List

22 August

Elon Musk’s Engineering Philosophy

8 August

1 August

Playing with Google Cloud Platform

13 July

Can an explanation of an historical event ever be completely true?

6 July

Load-testing my Web Analytics Tool

2 July

Validating CloudFlare analytics

29 June

25 June

24 June

Building my own web analytics

22 June

Design Patterns

15 June

14 June

Coding exercise for a technical interview

14 June

8 June

Choose Boring Technology

7 June

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need

7 June

2 June

1 June

Questions for good references

27 May

Lessons from 45 years in the software industry

27 May

Modeling Credit Risk

25 May

Building A Story Brand

17 May

My Life Expectancy

12 May

10 May

Where and when will the current Bitcoin market peak?

27 April

Reading - April 2021

21 April

Learning - April 2021

21 April

Tweets - April 2021

21 April

21 April

20 April

I Leaked Credentials Onto A Public GitHub Repo

15 April

12 April

Over-Engineering this blog

5 April

5 April

Vim: GoTo Tag Definition

31 March

17 March

12 March

Cardano: Generating Addresses

5 March

Two Years Of Vim

4 March

Binance-Chain: Running a node

3 March

nohup and Background Processes

2 March

File Descriptors and /dev/null

2 March

Cardano: Running a full node

1 March

Polkadot: Running and interacting with a full node

1 March

Microservices, Docker, Azure

2 February

Regrets Of The Dying

1 February

A List Of Unconnected Thoughts And Aphorisms

1 February

Notes From An Interview With Geoffrey Hinton

1 February

Questions For Interesting Conversations

1 February

Portfolio: Image Recognition

26 January

22 January

22 January

Notes From “Mastering Vim Quickly”

21 January

Notes From “Powerful Python”

21 January

Mental Models I Used To Use

20 January

What’s So Different About Now

20 January

Predicting the Future using Human Nature and Technology

20 January

Financial Doom And Gloom

19 January

Debugging the more_categories plugin for Pelican

19 January

Different Views For Different Users

19 January

3 Different Types Of Programming Problems

18 January

Why I Want To Write Regularly

18 January

Python: Becoming A Better Python Developer

18 January

Using Vim with large codebases

15 January

14 January

Notes on learning Django

14 January

Data Science vs Web Development: Larger Code Bases

14 January

Test Driven Development

6 January

Why Talk About Jesus?

5 January

API Design Principles

4 January

Principles Of Object Orientated Programming

4 January

Optimizing The Performance Of This Blog

4 January

Unix: Utilities To Analyse And Update Multiple Text Files

4 January

2020

A New Blog Design

18 December

Product-Led Growth

8 December

4 December

Obviously Awesome

3 December

How I learnt to code

1 December

The 1-Page Marketing Plan

19 November

Learning to market

19 November

28 October

2019

Between Clients

8 October

Analysis of the mean and median value of transactions on 5 Blockchains

2 September

14 February

Bitcoin Lightning

24 January

2018

Sync a BTC node, quickly

13 October

11 June

Prediction Markets

7 June

Reading: April 2018

4 June

Ry’s Git Tutorial

1 June

The Bitcoin Lightning Network

12 April

2017

How to buy Bitcoin

7 December

Live near the ocean

23 November

22 November

Bitcoin compared to gold

21 November

Hardware Wallets

8 November

Trading digital assets

28 October

I’m a chartered accountant

19 October

Coworking in Dublin

15 September

14 September

Create a Multi-Signature Ethereum wallet using Parity

12 August

Macro analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain

3 August

Corporate London

10 July

Blockchains from the ground up: Part 2

8 July

8 July

4 July

Understanding VC Investment

9 June

How to be an ambitious founder in Europe

9 June

The Lisbon Investment Summit

9 June

Blogging with Pelican: Design, Plugins, Sharing

1 June

Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1

25 May

London Rent vs. London Salaries

12 May

Introduction to the Æternity blockchain project

5 May

The Æternity ICO: My experience

30 April

Blogging with Pelican

28 April

Analysing a personal library

1 February

FakeGL: A Synthetic General Ledger and Trial Balance

6 January

Reconciliation of a trial balance to a general ledger

3 January

2016

Spotify song history

22 December

1 December

Autumn, BIN and $PATH

1 December

Introduction to my doctorate research - Silos

2 October

30 August

Digital currencies: the basics

19 August

13 August

Übersicht widget: Time Until

7 August

How to wake up early

6 August

Jupyter (iPython) notebooks + Pandas

3 August

Coursera’s “Data Science Specialisation”

1 August

Übersicht widget: Time Since

30 July