Building
Ten Tasks, Three WaysNote
I kept telling people that some AI work belongs on the frontier and some belongs on your own hardware. That is an assertion. So I built the instrument that turns it in...
Nobody Uses ItDispatch
The failure mode of automation was never technical. It is that six weeks later the spreadsheet is still open on someone's second monitor, and nobody wants to be the on...
Sixteen Workflows, One Small ServerNote
I spent the summer automating my own operation before automating anyone else's. Sixteen workflows, a €8 box, a 0.9% failure rate — and one rule that turned out to matt...
Writing Past the Free TierDispatch
Buttondown's free plan blocks the two features that matter most for a newsletter — automation and custom CSS. About two hundred lines of Python in the publish workflow...
The Language That Built the World's Databases: Clipper, ASCII Art, and the Golden Age of DOS
Before the web, before Windows, before most people had ever touched a computer — there was a language called Clipper, a compiler that turned dBASE code into executable...
Building a Family Recipe BookNote
Building a 10,000-Book Library from ScratchNote
I built a curated digital library of 10,001 books spanning serious literature, science fiction, detective fiction, science, and a dozen other genres — with a REST API,...
Oil vs Stock: Seeing the Relationship Between Oil and EquitiesNote
I built a dashboard that overlays crude oil prices with any stock ticker — because sometimes the best way to understand a relationship is to just look at it.
Where in the World is Naren – Building An Interactive Travel MapNote
Building an interactive travel map with Leaflet.js to showcase every place I have visited or lived in around the world.
Rebuilding a personal siteNote
After twenty-five years and multiple false starts, finally rebuilding a personal site the right way with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
Machine Learning 101Note
A running diary of getting Anaconda and Conda working, one failed install at a time.
PyFactStream: Analysing newsNote
A weekend experiment piping scraped news through a text-processing engine.
The Perfect Mac Dev SetupNote
A nine-step terminal recipe for getting a Mac ready to write code.
Essential Free Software For The MacNote
A starter set of free Mac software, written for a friend who had just bought one.
Note to Self: Two Open Source data projects I have to play withNote
Data is wealth. And I don’t like the idea of having all my data making other people wealthy. In my continuing quest (, ) to track alternates to popular, commercial,…
WIP: The Perfect Web Dev MacNote
Will keep updating this article – Two things happened recently — I upgraded to Mac OSX on my Macbook Pro and got a new Mac Air at work. The second is important…
Data Visualization: See what I’m all aboutNote
I decided to go over to Wordle and run the blog and my del.icio.us account data through it’s engine to visualize what I’m all about. Here are the results: The Blog:…
Using Github with Webfaction (or AWS, or pretty much any other server)Note
At we’ve been building some really cool apps over the last few months. Working with multiple apps means that we need to keep track of what we’re up to, what changes…
Learning Ruby on Rails 3Note
Installing RoR3 on a Mac — I’ve found till now. Be warned: you will need to download and install the latest version of XCode. Use the Mac App Store, it’s easier…
jQuery Autocomplete with CodeIgniter
The project I'm working on was crying out for autofill boxes etc all over the place. jQuery has a very nifty autocomplete plugin, but that works by building urls…
Design your own siteNote
So you think you have the time to design your own site. Or do you want to make oodles on money making other people's sites? Before you decide to take the plunge…
Layers ... in briefNote
Welcome to the world of dynamic HTML ... and the pleasures of coding in a text editor :) remember you need either NN4 or IE4 or better to become dynamic! Layers ...…
New Windows using JavaScriptNote
JavaScript is extremely useful, it is almost a complete programming language. the only problem you might face is when somebody using a very old browser accesses…
Graphic designNote
Graphic Design forms an integral part of web design. Want to know what it is all about ... here is a brief intorduction, with links to places where you can find out…
Site hostingNote
So your site is on it's way to completion and you want to put it up on the web. Looking for a host? Before you get your site hosted, it is time to think about one…
FTPNote
Now that everything is ready, you want to put your files on the site ... FTP is the key! Your site is located in a directory on the web. This directory is located…