The designer Massimo Vignelli once said that you only really need around 6 fonts. The logic of that approach is that rather than spending ages trying to find the ‘perfect’ font from all the thousands that are available, you focus on a reduced range of basic fonts. This creative constraint then gives you more space… Read More »
Timelines are a great way to present events in a chronological order. Timelines can be elaborate, bespoke graphics, but I wanted to see how to make a python timeline plot rather than making one by hand. The key benefit of creating the timeline in python rather than creating it by hand in a graphics tool… Read More »
The Lorentz cipher was a code used by Germany in the second world war. In this post I wanted to explore the general ideas behind it and see if I could implement a simple Python Lorentz Cipher. I’m not trying to create an exact simulation of the Lorentz cipher here. For a python lorentz cipher… Read More »
This post has a selection of software engineering books I’ve found to be particularly useful. Why Books? The internet is great and there are plenty of blog posts and MOOCs online, so why bother with books? For me there are a few reasons: books by their nature bring together knowledge on a particular theme from… Read More »
Historic UK Rainfall Data The Met Office Hadley Centre holds (Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets HadUKP) UK Rainfall Data going back to the 1800s. It records the daily average rain fall for 9 regions around England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. You can download the data from here: Met Office Hadley Centre HadUKP Data… Read More »