Ah, the joys of student life. Not only is accommodation absurdly expensive (Over 100 pounds a week to live near campus outside London. I’m not going to mention London prices, because anybody who doesn’t already know them is going to have a heart attack.), but laundry costs on top of continue reading…
As you may know, I did a placement year/”year in industry” as part of my University degree. This is basically done in one’s third year of studies, before their final year and it helps get experience in the ‘real’ world before graduating. I had the ability to do a placement continue reading…
Yesterday I made my Raspberry Pi function as a router! It took me a long time, mostly because I was using my own custom compiled kernel (don’t worry, you don’t have to do that). There’s probably already enough blogs on the subject, but I thought I’d make one, too! Prerequisites continue reading…
Microsoft visual studio (We’re forced to use it for uni, ugh) seems to take forever and a day to install. Here’s a few fun things you can do while it does that: (Note that this is a joke, don’t take it /too/ seriously ;)) Watch the lord of the rings continue reading…
Are you making any piece of software that receives an ID from user input and returns a {post, image, whatever}? May I suggest: base 36? Just look at this: http://example.invalid/?a=1000000 http://example.invalid/?a=lfls What looks better? Thought so. You can convert between bases easily in any language, so you have no excuse continue reading…