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  1. ShipItCon 2023

    Published: Wed 28 August 2024

    In Tech.

    tags: events

    With ShipItCon 2024 fast approaching (in 2 days!!), it's time for me to admit I will never finish writing up my notes from last year's and just post what I do have. Perhaps this year my note-taking skills will improve?

    ShipItCon is a small non-profit conference in Dublin that focuses …

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  2. Extracting reviews from Goodreads into Markdown pages

    Published: Sun 07 May 2023

    In Tech.

    tags: python

    In early 2020, it became really difficult to read books. I'm slowly starting to get past that at last, but while Goodreads was super fun for a few years, right now tracking and counting and rating just makes reading feel like a chore and Not Fun as a hobby.

    I …

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  3. Book reviews: Year 2021

    Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy, #1) by Emily Skrutskie

    An easy-to-read space romance. The mutual pining starts strong from the start and it was just fun to read. The worldbuilding is super interesting and I really, really enjoyed how the politics and moral dilemmas are slowly introduced and explored …

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  4. Book reviews: Year 2020

    The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, #2) by Hannu Rajaniemi

    I look at my review for the first book and see delight and enthusiasm. Reading the Quantum Thief was hard work but getting to understand the world and the characters that inhabit it was such a reward, brought such enchantment …

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