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German quality standards don’t lie.

I have just had a thought about a subject I want to explore: “Test Automation-Directed Gen-AI Assisted Software Development”: A process and workflow for rapid single-engineer AI-assisted development of software while keeping control over quality, alignment

Blogs have been around for a very long time.

The 90’s Emachine with a whole 64MB of RAM!

Another mobile workbench.

Dolby Codecs.

The hypocrisy of the UK today.

An impressive-looking ant.

AI has blown my mind.

Now that the University of London, Royal Holloway Cyber Security MSc is out of the way (for now).. the real challenge begins.. the Imperial College Machine Learning/AI certificate .

It has been interesting learning about FHE - Fully Homomorphic Encryption and MPC - Secure Multi-Party Computation in my recent studies with Royal Holloway, University of London .

Have just finished the most recent module exams for my MSc Cyber Security degree at University of London, Royal Holloway.

It is very annoying how low peoples expectations and initial perceptions of me are.

We are experiencing our second heatwave of the summer here in the UK and to be honest, I’m sick of it.

The problem with arguing on the internet is that you usually automatically assume that the other person is as cognitively capable as you of understanding the argument you’re trying to put across, and also, are interested in the argument at all.

The Christies have decided that they only need to see me once per year now.

We have been incredibly busy with the house move, and I did not get as much time as I wanted to, to put into studying for my latest Royal Holloway Cyber Security module, “Applied Crytopgrahy”.

I found this diagram very interesting and useful for explaining multiple levels of privilege in society, and also explaining how some people can be very privileged in some areas and very unprivileged in others.

The University of London Cyber Security Society team I was a part of made it to the regional qualifiers of the Cybersecurity Leaders Challenge!

I have noticed that often, the model that helps you write the software has no way of executing it in a real environment.

We absolutely LOVE where we have moved to, very near Chorley, in the Lancashire countryside.

I have a lot of problems personally with ‘doomscrolling ’ habits, and getting suckered into arguing on social media sites.

I’m keeping going with my AI/ML cert from Imperial College London, I’m not taking any UOLWW Cyber Security masters modules this presentation (next 3 months).. instead I’m focusing on the AI/ML cert and other commitments.

So, what have I been doing lately?

The last retrospective I wrote was in August of this year .

AI/ML Jupyter Workbook.

I have signed up for a 7 month professional certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Imperial College London!

I have founded my first company!

The dust has settled on our move to Preston.

We’ve decided to rent a place in Preston, instead of Bolton.

We finally did it!!

I have been recently spending quite a lot of time working on the Hugo blog framework that I use to build all my web content and serve it up in static format.

Moving House We have been spending literally ALL our time packing heavy duty packing crates as part of our planned house sale and move to Bolton.

The house is in the final stages of being sold, and so I have taken down the house server down while we move.

I have setup the excellent and free Thor Lite AV APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) malware scanner running on my server.

Moving House This year has been difficult so far, although arguably not as difficult as last year, as last year saw deaths in the family and still not knowing if I’d been cured from cancer.

FINALLY, with the help of fcron , judicious use of Bash debugging, and a lot of freaking around, I have managed to get scheduled cron jobs running the way I want to.

It is true that employers these days are hiring for obedience and inexperience, as this ebook excerpt explains: – “We regret to inform you that we will not be moving forward with your application due to concerns that your qualifications exceed those requi…

I have added ‘Mylar3 ’ the electronic comic book downloader and metadata organiser, to my self-hosted docker containers.

We will, in a few months (fingers crossed) be moving home.

I’ve made a bunch of new updates to the server.

Last year I was ‘banned’ from LinkedIn for calling three people ‘idiots’.

There has been numerous problems with the server that hosts all my domains, which resulted often in my websites becoming unavailable.

I first started programming in 1998.

Introduction I have been working on perfecting a data-cleansing and import process for my Plex Server’s Music library for several years now, on and off.

One trick I used to great affect with my previous Amazon Alexa setup, was a central Google personal calendar that was linked to wake up routines - it would, reliably, read out all the events on my calendar on that day.

I have made numerous fixes to the hq.local server after realising that some of the services were not running as well as they should have been, following the server rebuild a few months ago, and also to improve things generally.

I’m currently studying a post-graduate degree full-time while holding down a mortgage in Manchester.

I have been officially classed as ‘cured’ from my Relapsed Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer, which I was first diagnosed with at Stage 4 in 2021 and came back at Stage 3 in the same year.