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2026

You Don’t Need Nextcloud: A Simple WebDAV File Server with rcloneoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2026
You’re Not Distro Hopping, You’re Probably Just Desktop Environment Hoppingoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2026

2025

Changes to my ThinkPad Setup: October 2025original ↗
14 Nov 2025
My Latest ThinkPad Setup: New Laptop and Distrooriginal ↗
12 May 2025
More Than Just a Title: Rethinking the Value of a PhDoriginal ↗
7 May 2025
For the Love of JavaScript! — Notes from a Python/Go Dev Going Back to the Browseroriginal ↗
22 Apr 2025
Fun with Bluesky and Websocketsoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2025
Honest Review of ThinkPad X240original ↗
11 Mar 2025
Solving Word Ladders With Graph Theoryoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2025
Projectsoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2025
Announcing My First Open Source Project: Graphkitoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2025

2024

Mastering the Bluesky Firehose with Python: A Simple Tutorialoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2024
Experimenting with Thermal Printing: My Setup, Mishaps, and Tipsoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2024
Raspberry Pi + Receipt Printer = Hours of Funoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2024
About Meoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2024
Finding Peaks in a Dataset and Why It Is Not Straightforwardoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2024
Notes on Crawling Instances on the Known Fediverseoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2024

2023

Visualising Paper Co-Author Collaboration Networksoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2023
Analysing the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup with Graph Theoryoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2023
How to Stream from the Mastodon API via HTTP in Pythonoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2023
Your Social Network Is Bigger Than You Think!original ↗
31 Jul 2023
How to Build a Self-Organising Map (SOM) in Python Step-by-Steporiginal ↗
23 Jun 2023
How Self-Organising Maps Work: Explained with Graphicsoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2023
Analysing Posts About the #Coronation on Mastodonoriginal ↗
12 May 2023
How to Build Tag Clouds From Mastodon Hashtagsoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2023
The Relationship Between Coding and My Mental Healthoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2023
Linux Software I Use for Data Science Via the Terminaloriginal ↗
6 Mar 2023
Top 5 Software I Use For Data Science Projects Everydayoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2023
How to Create Simple Dynamic Graphs in Gephioriginal ↗
24 Feb 2023
Finding New Followers on Mastodon Using Python and Network Scienceoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2023
How to Import a Network From a Spreadsheet Using Gephioriginal ↗
20 Feb 2023
Analysing #ClimateChange and Related Hashtags on Mastodonoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2023
Modelling Discussion Threads From Mastodon Timelines Using Python and Networkxoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2023
Building User-Hashtag Co-occurrence Network from Timelines on Mastodonoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2023
How to Scrape Mastodon Timelines Using Python and Pandasoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2023
Interacting With REST APIs in Python With 5 Lines of Codeoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2023

2022

Loading Data into Pandas: 5 Tips and Tricks You May or May Not Knoworiginal ↗
2 Aug 2022
Will They Reply? Analysing the Reply Networks of 32 Programming Language Subredditsoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2022
Creating Reply Networks from Reddit Comment Threadsoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2022
How to Collect Data From Reddit - Introducing PRAWoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2022

2020

Fun with Forwarding and SSH Tunnellingoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2020

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