Continuing on from my first post, this post focuses on sourcing and massaging my data into a usable format ready for cross referencing and some analysis. As detailed in my first post, i received 38...

I found myself recently wondering, what exactly is private data? What i mean is, how much information about me is too much for a stranger to know. Of course there is Personally Identifiable Informa...

This post details the steps required to run your own tile server and import data from open street map. I’ll also show you how to import your own points data, so you can plot layer data into the ser...

So three years ago, i made a little program and I’ve decided to finally do a little writeup on it. Im a big football fan and i love to place a little bet. Every January and summer im constantly re...

As a millennial who develops software, I use other peoples libraries whenever I can to get the job done as quickly as possible. Unless its something particularly bespoke, there is always a library ...

A colleague of mine recently introduced me to the game changing ohmyzsh shell. Before: After: The shell has tonnes of plugins available built in, as well as loads of community driven plugins. Th...

I’m trying to learn Kubernetes so I am playing around with MicroK8s to run a deployment locally on my Ubuntu Virtual Machine. This post describes a basic deployment of HTTPBin in a cluster of thre...

I have just passed my CISSP exam (28th January). It took me around 2 hours and I had to complete the full 150 questions. My main takeaway from the exam is that the exam is much harder than any of t...

Where i currently work, i run company wide 5-a-side football sessions. The pitch hire costs around £45 and I charge £5 per person. Unless people pay me promptly, i quickly start to run out of pocke...

In Windows 10, the useful option to open a terminal window from the right click context menu has been removed. This is really frustrating and even when you make the necessary changes, the registry ...