All of my long-form thoughts collected in chronological order.
Discover practical strategies for how CAMRA can attract more young members, with full recommendations from the 2025 Young Members Spring Forum, including student engagement, events, marketing, and positioning tips.
Discover the rise of vibe coding and AI-powered frontend development. Learn about the security risks of no-code tools like Cursor, Bolt, and Windsurf, and how to use them safely.
A firsthand account of organizing CAMRA's Welcome Week in Manchester, including key successes, challenges faced, and future strategies for engaging students in real ale.
After witnessing the buzz surrounding the International Brewing and Cider Festival at Depot Mayfield, I felt compelled to share my firsthand experience of a similar event.
Explore the pivotal role of a Brewery Liaison Officer (BLO) within CAMRA, bridging the gap between breweries and the renowned beer organization. Discover the benefits for breweries, ranging from free marketing to participating in prestigious beer competitions.
Firstly, I want to express my respect and appreciation for the hard work put in by the Polywork team on their product. Despite developing my own version, it doesn't mean I won't continue using their platform. They generously sent me unsponsored merchandise for being an active early adopter.
Discover how you can join CAMRA and enjoy the world of beer, cider, and perry as a university student. Learn about the benefits, events, and discounts available for young members in Greater Manchester.
Learn how I automated my GitHub profile's "About Me" section using DevOps practices, Node.js scripts, and GitHub Actions. Discover the journey, challenges, and tools I employed to streamline this process.
Discover the plans and goals of CAMRA's Regional Young Member Coordinator for Greater Manchester.
Learn how I developed my prompt engineering skills to improve over half of my previous blog posts within a couple of hours.
In this post, I will discuss my top five pubs and taprooms in Manchester that offer CAMRA members a discount and are popular among young people aged 18 to 30.
Learn how I map Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) branches using Leaflet and Office for National Statistics (ONS) data. Follow the progress of this project and explore the current branch map.
In this blog post, I'll discuss the goals of CompiledMCR, an open-source project initiated in 2017, inspired by TechNW, with the aim of benefiting the technology community in Manchester.
Since Elon Musk recently acquired Twitter, a lot of people have been turning to Mastodon and Bluesky, and I've been pondering the ideal alternative.
Recently, I received a message from one of my former lecturers on behalf of a student who wished to reestablish the MMU Computing Society. I'll go over the exact advice I gave in this blog post in the hopes that it will be useful to those looking to start student societies.
According to tutors, I am one of my university's "top graduates," and I want to talk about my experience studying Computer Science and how I got to where I am.
The origin of this blog post started when I wanted to be able to classify images on a backend server as a learning exercise.
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Recently I have been creating websites in a statically generated way on a server, this being referred to as Static SSR (Server Side Rendering), where a server essentially generates HTML files based on code written, then those files are served to the user.
This years challenge was based on images and producing the most interesting slideshow, essentially we would be given files with theoretical images (horizontal and vertical) and we would have to pair slides based on the tags that the photos contained.
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Discover my experience at a data-related lab event focused on promoting active travel in London. Learn how my team devised a rewards scheme based on case studies.
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Read about my experience at the hackathon where we recreated an IRC-inspired chat application, faced various challenges, and leveraged technologies like Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.
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