One of my wastes of time is watching celebrity-based British game shows on YouTube. This started with Never Mind the Buzzzcocks, expanded to QI, and now covers a handful of shows, including 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.1 One of the puzzles in this show... (more…)

As the currently serving sole developer in residence, I’m often asked if there will be more people holding the same position in the future. ... (more…)

I'm a software developer currently working on SIMs and IOT for Arm. Before that I spent a few years working on various UK government projects managed by GDS. (more…)

Python 3.6.0 came out day before yesterday, and it was like a Christmas present for many of us. But in the midst of all the celebration…...

Asyncio is a relatively new standard-library solution for writing concurrent programs in Python. It was initially released with Python 3.4, greatly improved in 3.5, and has a solidified API in 3.6. If you’re not entirely sure what “concurrent” means, you ... (more…)