Blog Posts

2022

Adding italic text to iTerm2
The Psychology of Computer Programming

2021

How to write a book
103 attempts to make it work
Gell-Mann amnesia effect
Bat
Chezmoi: Part 2
Powerful Python
Unison helper
Virtual environments and python versions
Logging Best Practices
How to get rich without getting lucky
1 Peter 1 vs 10
1 Peter 1 vs 3
1 Peter 1 vs 1
Daddy-Daughter To-Do List
Elon Musk’s Engineering Philosophy
Beach Photos
Playing with Google Cloud Platform
Can an explanation of an historical event ever be completely true?
Load-testing my Web Analytics Tool
Validating CloudFlare analytics
Proverbs 16
Proverbs 15
Building my own web analytics
Design Patterns
Proverbs 14
Coding exercise for a technical interview
Proverbs 13
Choose Boring Technology
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need
Proverbs 12
Proverbs 11
Questions for good references
Lessons from 45 years in the software industry
Modeling Credit Risk
Building A Story Brand
My Life Expectancy
More VIM Notes
Where and when will the current Bitcoin market peak?
Reading - April 2021
Learning - April 2021
Tweets - April 2021
SSH-Notes
Chezmoi
I Leaked Credentials Onto A Public GitHub Repo
Ansible
Over-Engineering this blog
Fuse Search
Vim: GoTo Tag Definition
Python Notes
Adding Search
Cardano: Generating Addresses
Two Years Of Vim
Binance-Chain: Running a node
nohup and Background Processes
File Descriptors and /dev/null
Cardano: Running a full node
Polkadot: Running and interacting with a full node
Microservices, Docker, Azure
Regrets Of The Dying
A List Of Unconnected Thoughts And Aphorisms
Notes From An Interview With Geoffrey Hinton
Questions For Interesting Conversations
Portfolio: Image Recognition
Mist
Spaarndam
Notes From “Mastering Vim Quickly”
Notes From “Powerful Python”
Mental Models I Used To Use
What’s So Different About Now
Predicting the Future using Human Nature and Technology
Financial Doom And Gloom
Debugging the more_categories plugin for Pelican
Different Views For Different Users
3 Different Types Of Programming Problems
Why I Want To Write Regularly
Python: Becoming A Better Python Developer
Using Vim with large codebases
Using RSS
Notes on learning Django
Data Science vs Web Development: Larger Code Bases
Test Driven Development
Why Talk About Jesus?
API Design Principles
Principles Of Object Orientated Programming
Optimizing The Performance Of This Blog
Unix: Utilities To Analyse And Update Multiple Text Files

2020

A New Blog Design
Product-Led Growth
The Mom Test
Obviously Awesome
How I learnt to code
The 1-Page Marketing Plan
Learning to market
Pippip.Email

2019

Between Clients
Analysis of the mean and median value of transactions on 5 Blockchains
A faster zsh
Bitcoin Lightning

2018

Sync a BTC node, quickly
Bakke-Rij
Prediction Markets
Reading: April 2018
Ry’s Git Tutorial
The Bitcoin Lightning Network

2017

How to buy Bitcoin
Live near the ocean
Pangea
Bitcoin compared to gold
Hardware Wallets
Trading digital assets
I’m a chartered accountant
Coworking in Dublin
Bitnation
Create a Multi-Signature Ethereum wallet using Parity
Macro analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain
Corporate London
Blockchains from the ground up: Part 2
Move
Flee
Understanding VC Investment
How to be an ambitious founder in Europe
The Lisbon Investment Summit
Blogging with Pelican: Design, Plugins, Sharing
Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1
London Rent vs. London Salaries
Introduction to the Æternity blockchain project
The Æternity ICO: My experience
Blogging with Pelican
Analysing a personal library
FakeGL: A Synthetic General Ledger and Trial Balance
Reconciliation of a trial balance to a general ledger

2016

Spotify song history
Vim!
Autumn, BIN and $PATH
Introduction to my doctorate research - Silos
Encryption
Digital currencies: the basics
Spare time
Übersicht widget: Time Until
How to wake up early
Jupyter (iPython) notebooks + Pandas
Coursera’s “Data Science Specialisation”
Übersicht widget: Time Since