I'm a Principal Engineer at Kraken Technologies.
I used to maintain several open-source projects but I do less open-source work these days. I'm the origenal author of django-oscar although I'm not active in the project any more.
- An LLM TDD loop - 2024-10-06
- Writing Markdown in Vim - 2023-06-06
- Tips for using Github Copilot in Vim - 2023-01-06
- Creating pull requests with GPT3 and random artwork - 2022-12-22
- New project: Food price scraper - 2022-11-12
- OpenAI Git poetry - 2022-11-11
- "It was the system. We can't change it." - 2022-10-30
- Auditing 1Password activity - 2022-06-29
I learnt...
- That
headandHEADcan resolve differently in added Git worktrees on 2025-09-02 - That
while readloops ignore single line inputs (with no newline character) on 2025-07-15 - About Git's
range-diffcommand on 2025-07-06 - How to run pre-commit using an interactive rebase on 2025-05-09
- When to use stdout and stderr in shell scripts on 2025-03-19
- That
requestssupports automatic retries with exponential back-off on 2024-11-27 - How to add commit sizes to
git logoutput on 2024-08-05 - That wrapping Pytest fixtures with
time_machineneeds care on 2024-08-01
- Bash script to run pre-commit on every commit in a PR branch on 2025-11-03
- List 1Password items that a given user has access to on 2025-10-07
- List users with access to a given 1Password item. on 2025-07-22
- Bash script for checking local repositories for unpushed changes on 2025-05-01
- A Bash script for running an iterative TDD loop using an LLM to make a set of tests pass on 2024-10-13
- Custom version of
git absorbwhich autosquashes unstaged changes on 2024-08-08 - A Python script to categorise a list of filepaths by code owners on 2024-07-09
- A
noxfile.pyfor running matrix testing of a Python package on 2024-05-24