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Exploring your personal Netflix viewing history… What you see is a visualisation of everything I’ved watched since 2012.

This is a quick guide to some of the features of the Semantic Kernel, a Software Development Kit that simplifies integration of language models into your own applications.

A tool to design 3D printed crossword puzzles. Generating 3D crossword models I’ve been working on a tool to generate crossword designs using OpenSCAD.

Presenting a simple template to develop, publish, and test a simple C# service backend on AWS, with serverless Lambda functions, supported by DynamoDb, behind an API Gateway, and protected by Cognito auth.

It took me 3 weeks to complete the day 11 puzzle for Advent of Code on a BBC Micro this year, and you’d be hard pressed to describe my solution as “proportionate” or “necessary”…

I’ve been working on a pet project recently: Consensus games are a fun new way to play together through social media…

A few days ago we had a call from one of the most sophisticated phishing attacks I’ve experienced…

It’s possible to share a secret amongst a group of people so that only some of them are needed to reconstruct it…

More commonly known as a Dead Man’s Switch, a Dead Person Switch (DPS) is a system that can hold a secret on behalf of a person, and govern its release should they become unavailable.