Articles in the blog category

• Mon 04 January 2021

  Working from Home v2

  So last year I started working from home. So did everyone right? Well I started before you, because I got a new job and I started totally remote in January.

  I had this idea that I would do a load of experiments on how to effectively work from home, but …

• Sat 02 January 2021

  Books I will (might) read in 2021

  My dad bought me Gateway by Frederik Pohl (plus all the sequels!) for Xmas 2020, and this sent me on a journey into the (massive) list of SF Masterworks books. I am under no illusion that I will finish all 180 books in one year, but I aim to get …

• Mon 11 May 2020

  Handy pytest snippets

  I seem to spend 90% of my time these days writing Python tests. Which one could argue is how it should be, but whatever.
• Mon 11 May 2020

  'Simple Moto examples'

  Moto is a (the?) python AWS mocking package all good python AWS mockers use. The docs are pretty helpful, but personally I like a nice simple example I can copy and paste to start out with, reading is too much effort.

  Here's a few I've collected from around the internet …

• Tue 05 May 2020

  DynamoDB Keys for Beginners

  I have never used DynamoDB before, I am a proper relational database person, but I have recently had to get into a (very simple) No-SQL db setup and there are some things that are quite different to a proper database, namely keys and indexes.
• Fri 28 February 2020

  'Remote Working Review - Month One(ish)'

  I started working (almost) full time remote at the start of January. It's been two full months now, thought I'm not sure the first month really counts, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on how it's going.