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How to reduce productivity in 3 simple steps
Made some changes in my office setup, which have caused me to become even less productive than usual. If you would like to experience the same reduction in usefulness for yourself, read on.
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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.
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'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 …