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2026

Links rotoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
The Crime in South Africa Wikipedia pageoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
My PostgreSQL CLI setuporiginal ↗
24 May 2026
How do I learn?original ↗
21 May 2026
Make more to throw awayoriginal ↗
15 May 2026
Digital authenticity is really about provenanceoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2026
When the lion’s hungry, he sleepsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
Working through my reading listoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2026

2025

Most people aren’t actingoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2025
Being wrong feels just like being rightoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2025
Relative frequency of SI units and prefixesoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2025
Novelty is easy, quality is hardoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2025
Don’t judge your open-loop predictions by closed-loop outcomesoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2025
Transcribing birds on a wireoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2025
Four years of sight reading practiceoriginal ↗
17 May 2025

2023

Generative AI will help us mine the creative space fasteroriginal ↗
18 Mar 2023

2022

Cost of gas vs electricity in South Africaoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2022
When to use dict.get in pythonoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2022

2020

2020 wrap-up of South African COVID-19 deathsoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2020
South African COVID-19 deaths in contextoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2020
Indispensable command-line toolsoriginal ↗
22 May 2020

2019

The fallacy of infrequent measurementsoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2019
The user stanceoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2019
How to separate your data from your codeoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2019

2018

Gautrain API reverse engineeringoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2018
Case study: R (tidyverse) vs Python (pandas)original ↗
14 Sept 2018

2017

My programming history (part 2)original ↗
25 Dec 2017
A simple GUI spreadsheet in less than 100 lines of Pythonoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2017
Fun with Python functionsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2017
The more we record the less we understandoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2017
Diversity and unityoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2017

2016

Version management strategiesoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2016
Appearance vs semanticsoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2016
Efficient compiled binaries aren’t “running C code”original ↗
11 Jan 2016

2015

Why don’t we just do solar instead of nuclear?original ↗
25 Sept 2015
More history, some musing about syncing filesoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2015
Numpy matrices work for general objectsoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2015

2014

Understanding electricity terminologyoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2014
One day software bootcamp for engineersoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2014
Managing scientific data and interchange with industryoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2014