Stories by calpaterson

Software Mitchell Baker logs off for good as CEO of Firefox maker Mozilla

Stepping – Incremental View Maintenance for Python

Threat modelling case study: bicycles

YAML: Probably not so great after all

Simple data pipeline powertools: SQLite, Pandas, gnuplot and friends

I didn't write any JavaScript, and other shortcuts

Volvo goes SUV-only in UK as all saloon and estate cars axed

Nuts, Bolts and Meccano

Pandas 2.0

Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data

How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick

Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools

No general method to detect fraud

State of the Game: Current Progress – Rooms and Encounters

It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription

Analytics on Personal Websites

Absolute Scale Corrupts Absolutely (2019)

No general method to detect fraud

Doom (1993) MIDI soundtrack on a Roland synth

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