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Raspberry Pico first attempt
Lets start with setting the scene: 1. I have never used a standalone microprocessor for anything befre 2. I have not soldered since GCSE electronics (20+ years) 3. I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing
So I bought a couple of Raspberry Pi Picos because they are new and why …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. -
'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 …
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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.