All of my long-form thoughts collected in chronological order.
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. Drawing from my personal observations and insights gleaned from various channels, here's my take on the festival.
In my multifaceted involvement with CAMRA, one of my roles is that of a Brewery Liaison Officer (BLO). In this blog post, I will delve into the intricacies of this role and elucidate its significance for breweries in their association with CAMRA.
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.
Are you a university student interested in beer, cider, or perry and are a committee member of or are considering starting a society? I'm CAMRA's Regional Young Member Coordinator for Greater Manchester, and I'm here to assist you!
With the power of modern DevOps practices, I embarked on a journey to automate the creation of my GitHub "About Me" section. By harnessing the capabilities of a quick Node.js script and a GitHub Action, I successfully extracted information from various online sources to generate a Markdown file in just about an hour and a half.
As the newly appointed CAMRA's Regional Young Member Coordinator for Greater Manchester, I am excited to share my plans and goals for the upcoming year. In this blog post, I will outline my strategic approach to engage university students, organize taproom tours, establish connections with university societies and groups, and highlight the cost savings of CAMRA membership.
In this blog post, we will explore how I developed my prompt engineering skills to improve over half of my previous blog posts within a couple of hours. Prompt engineering is a crucial aspect of working with ChatGPT, as it helps optimize the output and achieve the desired results. I will share my journey of refining the prompts and overcoming challenges to enhance the quality of my blog posts effectively.
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. The purpose of this post is to showcase the modern pubs and "hipster" bars in Manchester that are not only welcoming and inclusive but also frequented by individuals under the average age of thirty. Moreover, these establishments offer discounts to CAMRA members (obligatory Join CAMRA link).
In this blog post, I'll discuss how I map the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) branches using Leaflet and data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Please note that this blog post is a work in progress, and I will be making updates to improve its accuracy and implementation.
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. This is certainly a work-in-progress blog post, which I will most likely update over the coming days as I refine my thoughts, but for now, you're welcome for the brain dump.
Recently, I received a message from one of my former lecturers on behalf of a student who wished to reestablish the MMU Computing Society. In this blog post, I will share the advice I gave to help those looking to start student societies. For context, I volunteered for the computing society during my first year of university (2016/17), served as the secretary during my second year (2017/18), and acted as the chair during my last year (2018/19). I will provide a breakdown of these roles later in the post.
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, to be able to expand upon it for a project we are working on at my company (using a general object classifier as a baseline), and to also use computational power that will be needed further on.
This is the first hackathon I am attending along with my co-founder, Ben Grubert, which is beneficial since we both complement each other in terms of skills and abilities, working well together. We had prior discussions on ideas before the hackathon.
This is the first hackathon I will be attending after becoming a co-founder of INEVITABLE. It was a great opportunity to discuss and develop an idea prior to the event, which is not something I usually get to do.
Recently, I have been creating websites in a statically generated way on a server. This is 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.
This event was emailed to us through our student email by Peter McKenna. It was promoted as a "BBC Digital Cities Hackathon" with the following content:
Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in an exciting lab event that aimed to address the challenge of promoting active travel among Londoners. In this blog post, I will share my experience and the solution my team devised during the event.
The Extra-Curricular Award is an award given for attending five different activities (some had been split into parts), for at least a total of 30 hours (10 hours having to be interdisciplinary, outside my course).
This blog post recounts my experience attending the first Hackathon with a rough team. I teamed up with my peer, Pritam Sangani, from my course. Initially, we had several ideas in mind for the hackathon project. Originally, I was interested in the "Online Collaboration" track, aiming to create a collaborative artsy project or a passive tool similar to Google's traffic data on Maps.
Below is the opening paragraph of the assignment I will be working on, luckily it is quiet open without specified technologies to be used, which will allow me to build a complex back-end system in NodeJS with the use of MongoDB as the database technology of my choice.
I first found out about this unconference only two days before it was to take place, from May whom I met at BSides Manchester (my last conference) two days prior. It came up in conversation since she was on the crew and was asking another friend of hers if they were attending.
We were pointed towards the Village Data Quest by Matthew Crossley through our student email, and I was personally intrigued, especially with a description of what the challenge would entail (partly), which is given below: