2021-04-15

At first glance, Amazon Web Services (AWS) can seem impenetrably complex, but it’s not so bad once you’ve found your way around it…

See also:

• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 6: Triggers
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 5: S3
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 4: Logs
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 3: APIs and secrets
• Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 2: Build, deploy and invoke

2021-01-04

There are a many ways to peek inside a data file and reason about its contents.

2021-01-03

Anyone can code. This is a short exploration of the choices for coding beginners out there.

2021-01-02

My Mac likes to go to sleep to save power, and that means any long-running processes I have underway will be suspended when it does.

2021-01-01

I learned to code on a computer called the BBC Micro, released by the BBC in 1981.

2020-04-24

Cleaning up data from volunteer groups across the UK. We’re only human In the previous post, we took a tour of the open data available that tells the story of volunteerism across the UK since the coronavirus crisis began.

See also:

• Look for the helpers

2020-04-23

What can we learn about grass-roots COVID-19 volunteer groups from open data?

See also:

• We're only human

2020-02-01

A friend is helping out with a community project and asked for some laptops.

2019-03-28

A couple of weeks ago I witnessed a stabbing… Being a better witness I didn’t know it was a stabbing at the time.

2019-03-05

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