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This is my personal blog. While I may showcase some of my professional work and learning, any opinions expressed are mine alone!

Album cover for 'Orbits', by The Circling Sun. A black background representing space appears to be peppered with small celestial bodies of light, with a large blue-purple-white smear across the centre.

Six months of Bandcamp’s Jazz-ish Jazz Club
11 min
Music
Bandcamp
Jazz

Reflections on my first digital record club

Feb 4, 2026
2/5/26, 5:10:03 PM
 
CPD for July 2025
7 min
Python
Advent of Code
Advent of Code 2024
Polars
uv

A grab bag of stuff

Jul 11, 2025
2/4/26, 7:55:33 PM

Accessing R HTML help pages from outside a container
5 min
R
Quarto
Python
Neovim
Container
Docker
Podman

Solved by an R legend (not me)

May 9, 2025
5/9/25, 11:34:12 PM

A containerised Neovim dev environment for R and Quarto
12 min
R
Quarto
Python
Neovim
Container
Docker
Podman

I got nerd-sniped.

May 1, 2025
5/9/25, 9:03:57 PM

Learning Neovim is Hard
7 min
R
Python
Neovim
VS Code

Trying to orient myself in the Neovim landscape proved harder than I anticipated

Mar 24, 2025
3/24/25, 10:45:06 PM

A VS Code window showing the R dataset 'mtcars' open as a standalone csv file. The Rainbow CSV extension is installed and enabled, applying a series of alternating colours to the columns of mtcars.csv

VS Code for R on macOS
15 min
VS Code
Visual Studio Code
R

More or less everything you need to know to get started

Dec 20, 2023
5/12/24, 12:33:48 PM

Green text streaming vertically down a black background. It looks like the code seen in The Matrix movies.

Day 3 - Advent of Code 2023
9 min
R
base R
Advent of Code
Advent of Code 2023

Commitment to a data structure

Dec 15, 2023
12/15/23, 7:28:06 AM
 
Day 2 - Advent of Code 2023
15 min
R
base R
Advent of Code
Advent of Code 2023

In which we compare multiple solutions.

Dec 10, 2023
12/10/23, 3:55:54 PM
 
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2023
5 min
R
Advent of Code
Advent of Code 2023

Harder than I thought it would be. Much harder.

Dec 4, 2023
12/4/23, 11:13:21 PM

Making the terminal zsh-tosh on macOS
5 min
terminal
zsh
command line
macOS
bat
eza
ohmyzsh

My favourite command line tools with zsh

Oct 12, 2023
11/15/23, 6:00:51 PM

Comfy keyboard shortcuts for RStudio
7 min
R
RStudio

Aimed at beginner and intermediate users

Aug 4, 2023
11/15/23, 6:00:08 PM

A cropped photograph of the eyes and surrounding fur of a cat's face. The cat is a chimera with green eyes, the left side of her face coloured black and the right side orange. The cat's name is Damsel.

Publishing content in Quarto using conditionals and if/else code flow
6 min
Quarto
R
knitr

A selection of simple methods using the knitr engine and HTML output

Apr 24, 2023
3/24/25, 10:50:36 PM
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