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2023

Bootstrapped SaaS
5 May 2023
A short 100 question diligence checklist
27 March 2023
AI prompt engineering
22 March 2023
Chat GPT prompt engineering
21 March 2023
Thinking about risk
21 March 2023
Using AI for social media content creation.
17 March 2023
Lessons from history in tackling climate change
3 March 2023
Most Data Work Seems Fundamentally Worthless
27 February 2023
Everything you can't have
7 February 2023
Money is a negative art
7 February 2023
How to learn another language
4 February 2023
My Neovim setup in 2023
3 February 2023
ZSA Moonlander Review
23 January 2023
The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions
18 January 2023
Neovim plugins I could make
14 January 2023
Insanity workouts
9 January 2023
P90x
9 January 2023
Long Life
6 January 2023

2022

A new blog
18 December 2022
Data Science Teams
15 April 2022
Advanced googling
5 April 2022
Someone else's guiding principles after 20 years of programming
22 March 2022
Django CBV method flowchart
16 February 2022
How to size bets
9 February 2022
Managing environment variables with Direnv
28 January 2022
Adding italic text to iTerm2
28 January 2022
The Psychology of Computer Programming
17 January 2022

2021

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

2020

A New Blog Design
18 December 2020
Product-Led Growth
8 December 2020
The Mom Test
4 December 2020
Obviously Awesome
3 December 2020
How I learnt to code
1 December 2020
The 1-Page Marketing Plan
19 November 2020
Learning to market
19 November 2020
Pippip.Email
28 October 2020

2019

Between Clients
8 October 2019
Analysis of the mean and median value of transactions on 5 Blockchains
2 September 2019
A faster zsh
14 February 2019
Bitcoin Lightning
24 January 2019

2018

Sync a BTC node, quickly
13 October 2018
Bakke-Rij
11 June 2018
Prediction Markets
7 June 2018
Reading: April 2018
4 June 2018
Ry's Git Tutorial
1 June 2018
The Bitcoin Lightning Network
12 April 2018

2017

How to buy Bitcoin
7 December 2017
Live near the ocean
23 November 2017
Pangea
22 November 2017
Bitcoin compared to gold
21 November 2017
Hardware Wallets
8 November 2017
Trading digital assets
28 October 2017
I'm a chartered accountant
19 October 2017
Coworking in Dublin
15 September 2017
Bitnation
14 September 2017
Create a Multi-Signature Ethereum wallet using Parity
12 August 2017
Macro Analysis of the Bitcoin Blockchain
3 August 2017
Corporate London
10 July 2017
Blockchains from the ground up: Part 2
8 July 2017
Move
8 July 2017
Flee
4 July 2017
Understanding VC Investment
9 June 2017
How to be an ambitious founder in Europe
9 June 2017
The Lisbon Investment Summit
9 June 2017
Blogging with Pelican: Design, Plugins, Sharing
1 June 2017
Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1
25 May 2017
London Rent vs. London Salaries
12 May 2017
Introduction to the Æternity blockchain project
5 May 2017
The Æternity ICO: My experience
30 April 2017
Blogging with Pelican
28 April 2017
Analysing a personal library
1 February 2017
FakeGL: A Synthetic General Ledger and Trial Balance
6 January 2017
Reconciliation of a trial balance to a general ledger
3 January 2017

2016

Spotify song history
22 December 2016
Vim!
1 December 2016
Autumn, BIN and $PATH
1 December 2016
Introduction to my doctorate research - Silos
2 October 2016
Encryption
30 August 2016
Digital currencies: the basics
19 August 2016
Spare time
13 August 2016
Übersicht widget: Time Until
7 August 2016
How to wake up early
6 August 2016
Jupyter (iPython) notebooks + Pandas
3 August 2016
Coursera's "Data Science Specialisation"
1 August 2016