In geography a nodal point is the point at which different transport links come together. Nodal points are sometimes referred to as route centres. Nodal Point Examples Examples of nodal points incl...

In this blog post I’ll show you how to extract data from maps using QGIS to georeference a map image and identify data points. The steps are: Start with a map image containing data you want to cap...

Playing wargames as part of a campaign is a good way to make them more interesting and compelling. Setting up wargaming campaigns can seem intimidating, but thankfully there are some standard appro...

The frontage of a unit is the length of the front line that a unit is responsible for. In this post I have summarised the approximate frontages for a range of world war two units, from a section of...

A plugin architecture is a way of achieving flexiblity, encapsulation, extensibility as well as other principles of good software design. This post shows how you can achieve a python plugin archite...

Microsoft works word processor files had a file extension of “.wps”. Works was last released in 2007 and unfortunately current versions of word cannot open old word processor wps files. Use LibreOf...

This post goes through the general idea of an index, why a card index might be useful, and some examples of a card index being used. Card index systems are largely a thing of the past, but they sti...

This post shows how to make a Raspberry Pi Carbon Dioxide Monitor using a raspberry pi connected to a USB carbon dioxide monitor. The project is deliberately bare bones and leaves several opportuni...

Web scraping is the process of automatically identifying and downloading data from a webpage. This blog post looks a a few python web scraping options. Alternatives to web scraping include: Usin...

The original inspiration for this post is this medium post which shows how a single (long) command can generate a markdown contents table for GitHub. The command is specifically for GitHub as it re...