hughevans.dev

I really like projects that explore the overlap of traditional crafts and computing / digital technology.

PyData London is a conference bringing together data scientists and engineers from all over the world for workshops and talks covering everything from document parsing to weather forecasting.

I have a habit of setting myself ambitious if slightly wacky goals: riding the London to Brighton bike ride, building an ASCII art photobooth, pursuing a career in dev rel etc and my latest is no exception.

Follow up video to my blog on my homelab getting hacked, covering how I secured Umami with Tailscale.

I've been into homelabbing for a few years now.

Gathering data, building maps, and the places that it can take you I really like maps.

This year has been a lot like the year before it, I again started the year at one company before moving to a Developer Advocate role.

TL;DR Aiven's free-tier Kafka offers 5 topics with 1 partition each, 250 KiB/s throughput (in and out), 3-day retention on a 2-node cluster, and hibernates after 5 days of inactivity.

Since 2022, I’ve been hosting my own blog for fun (and zero profit) from a Raspberry Pi 3 in my Homelab.

Big Data Conference Europe is a conference focused on technical discussions in the areas of Big Data, High Load, Data Science, Machine Learning and AI.

I work as a Developer Advocate, and despite the headaches I really enjoy it.

I was given this Anaconda stress ball at PyCon UK by the amazing Dawn Wages.

I just wrapped up an incredible two days at the All Things Open Conference in Raleigh, and I'm still buzzing from the experience (though admittedly quite jet-lagged as I make my way back to London for the Dremio Subsurface conference).

Update: After some feedback I manually relabeled my data and changed my approach slightly for better graphs By popular request here's all the data I collected from my smart bird feeder in histogram form: This is my first time trying Marimo and I really li…

I’ve spent a lot of time and energy this year complaining about Meetup (at the CodeBar Festival Fringe, at PyCon UK, and on my blog).

I had a great time at my first PyCon UK over the weekend: the community was really friendly and I feel like I missed as many good talks as I saw which feels the mark of a good conference to me.