Digital Flapjack

This is a bit of a meandering blog post, which was meant to be about one thing, and then I had to pull in some other bits to give context, and now it feels a little incoherent.

For the last few years I've spent the run up to the festive break working on something graphical, and this year whilst I was a little late to start, I decided to have a go at the Ray Tracer Challenge book by Jamis Buck.

Recently I had to give a live demonstration of my declarative geospatial for Python, Yirgacheffe, to an audience of other programmers at the PROPL 2025 workshop.

It's been a long time since I went to a hackathon.

This is a summary of last week's 2025 Nordic-RSE conference, held in Gothenburg, Sweden.

These are some notes for myself about trying to use Wasm and Web Workers to achieve some level of parallelisation in the browser.

Background I have three websites (this one, my personal site, and one for my luthiery endeavours), and despite each starting out with a different technology stack, for the last few years I’d migrated them all to the Hugo static site generator, as a way of…

What has to be a niche of a niche post wise, I was intrigued when I spotted this post recently that someone had built OCaml for Haiku.

Starting in around 2018 or so I decided to start reclaiming my Internet.

This post is a follow on to the previous part 1 about Tiny Code Christmas 2022, and is about what I did for TCC 2023.