Archive

2025


May
My Latest ThinkPad Setup: New Laptop and Distro 12 May 2025
More Than Just a Title: Rethinking the Value of a PhD 7 May 2025

April
For the Love of JavaScript! — Notes from a Python/Go Dev Going Back to the Browser 22 Apr 2025
Fun with Bluesky and Websockets 17 Apr 2025

March
Honest Review of ThinkPad X240 11 Mar 2025

February
Solving Word Ladders With Graph Theory 17 Feb 2025

January
Announcing My First Open Source Project: Graphkit 8 Jan 2025

2024


December
Mastering the Bluesky Firehose with Python: A Simple Tutorial 11 Dec 2024

October
Experimenting with Thermal Printing: My Setup, Mishaps, and Tips 30 Oct 2024
Raspberry Pi + Receipt Printer = Hours of Fun 17 Oct 2024

March
Finding Peaks in a Dataset and Why It Is Not Straightforward 25 Mar 2024

January
Notes on Crawling Instances on the Known Fediverse 31 Jan 2024

2023


November
Visualising Paper Co-Author Collaboration Networks 1 Nov 2023

August
Analysing the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup with Graph Theory 25 Aug 2023
How to Stream from the Mastodon API via HTTP in Python 17 Aug 2023

July
Your Social Network Is Bigger Than You Think! 31 Jul 2023

June
How to Build a Self-Organising Map (SOM) in Python Step-by-Step 23 Jun 2023
How Self-Organising Maps Work: Explained with Graphics 2 Jun 2023

May
Analysing Posts About the #Coronation on Mastodon 12 May 2023

April
How to Build Tag Clouds From Mastodon Hashtags 21 Apr 2023
The Relationship Between Coding and My Mental Health 14 Apr 2023

March
Linux Software I Use for Data Science Via the Terminal 6 Mar 2023
Top 5 Software I Use For Data Science Projects Everyday 3 Mar 2023

February
How to Create Simple Dynamic Graphs in Gephi 24 Feb 2023
Finding New Followers on Mastodon Using Python and Network Science 22 Feb 2023
How to Import a Network From a Spreadsheet Using Gephi 20 Feb 2023
Analysing #ClimateChange and Related Hashtags on Mastodon 17 Feb 2023
Modelling Discussion Threads From Mastodon Timelines Using Python and Networkx 16 Feb 2023
Building User-Hashtag Co-occurrence Network from Timelines on Mastodon 14 Feb 2023
How to Scrape Mastodon Timelines Using Python and Pandas 13 Feb 2023
Interacting With REST APIs in Python With 5 Lines of Code 8 Feb 2023

2022


August
Loading Data into Pandas: 5 Tips and Tricks You May or May Not Know 2 Aug 2022

January
Will They Reply? Analysing the Reply Networks of 32 Programming Language Subreddits 28 Jan 2022
Creating Reply Networks from Reddit Comment Threads 21 Jan 2022
How to Collect Data From Reddit - Introducing PRAW 19 Jan 2022

2020


April
Fun with Forwarding and SSH Tunnelling 4 Apr 2020