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  • Recipes Section on My Website - 17 August 2025

    Claude helped me parse a bunch of URLs into a standard YAML format, which I can then display with Astro. Very handy! (I haven't proofread them yet, but will tidy them up progressively)

  • UK Lottery Alerts - 20 July 2025

    This little script checks the next UK Lottery and Euromillions draws and notifies me over ntfy.sh when either jackpot is big enough for me to be interested.

  • Your Cardiff Wedding - 2 April 2025

    Planning a weddding is hard! After my wife and I did ours, I thought that I would create the sort of specialised resource that I wish me had at the time.

  • This Website - 21 November 2024

    I had gotten bored with my previous personal website and wanted to give Astro a try!

  • Codename - 26 October 2024

    I like GitHub’s repo name generator, but I wanted something that worked locally.

  • Power Patterns - 19 May 2024

    I wanted to practice some machine learning, and this competition came up where I thought I had some relevant domain knowledge. I quickly found myself out of my comfort zone and cobbled together this very basic submission.

  • Pico Post Bot - 9 September 2023

    I experimented with a Raspberry Pi Pico to create a gadget I could stick in our postbox down in our apartment building's reception that would send me a notification whenever we got mail.

  • A Brainstorming App - 5 June 2022

    I liked the format of a particular brainstorming session where participants come up with a big list of ideas, then go through them all and participants assigning votes to their favourites. When I came across PeerJS, I thought it would be well suited to create a peer-to-peer system where information didn't need to pass through a server at all.

  • Sheehy Family Website - 5 January 2022

    My family has put out a few newsletters over the last few years. They give us a medium to share oral history, genealogy research and more recent adventures with each other. For a while, we could only share them through email and social media, so I wanted to create a directory that we could easily share and access. Github Pages seemed an ideal solution!

  • nbconvert Example Template - 5 August 2021

    The Jupyter extension nbconvert allows users to export their notebooks as PDFs, slides, html documents, etc... and it is easy enough to create your own templates to use locally. On the other hand there was no clear documentation for publishing one's own templates online and distributing them through pypi.org. This project serves as a minimal example of how one can accomplish this.

  • SIAM 100 Digit Challenge - 13 June 2021

    The SIAM 100 Digit Challenge was a series of short yet very difficult problem statements first published in 2002 asking participants to calculate the numerical solution to various mathematical problems as accurately as possible. They seem like good ways to keep up my skills in my Scientific Computing degree, so I created a GitHub repo to record my solutions.

  • The Sheehy Family Crest - 16 May 2021

    I knew my family name had an associated crest, but I always wondered where it came from. I did a little digging into the old Sheehy clan and the topic of heraldry, documenting the main points I learnt in this short essay.

  • CSS Essential Training - 29 December 2020

    It was finally time for me to have some structured learning around CSS. My company recently signed us up to LinkedIn Learning, so it was the perfect opportunity to learn a bit more about how CSS works.

  • London House Prices - 8 November 2020

    London is a big place. I was wondering where would be best to perhaps invest in some property one day, so I made a React app to visualize the UK's Housing Price Index data

  • Michael Cera or Jesse Eisenberg? - 24 May 2020

    Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg are two actors often confused with one another. This Google Colab notebook uses FastAI to train a neural network to differentiate between the two.

  • So You Want to Learn Git - 23 May 2020

    There are lots of learning resources for Git online. This article is a little guide to getting started, outlining the main learning topics and pointing to some great online sources.

  • Previous Personal Website - 22 May 2020

    I needed a place where I could put all my work in one place, so I made this Jekyll site to act as a central location to link to other hubs.

  • Learn MNIST with Fastai - 20 May 2020

    This Kaggle-hosted Jupyter Notebook implements the Python FastAI deep learning library to recognise hand written digits.