Writing

I’ve been exploring the capabilities of DuckDB to query data from partitioned parquet files. This blog post collects some useful hints in getting this working with DuckDB-WASM for use in client-side javascript.

I’ve recently been using GitHub actions to automate data pipelines and build static sites. Something that’s quite useful to be able to do is trigger one job when another has finished. Find out how to build efficient cross-repository action triggers.

1st January 2021. It seems like an awfully long time ago. Much has happened, and equally much has not happened. I remember distinctly where I was on January 1st – standing in my kitchen, washing up and listening to Beauty Pill’s amazing album Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are. I resolved, there and then, to listen to a different album a day during January, in part as a way of broadening my horizons and in part to have a project.

It’s been, I think we can all agree, somewhat of an odd year. I thought I’d round it out with some things that bought me joy in 2020.

Second time’s a charm! I technically finished the Sofa To So Far plan that Jimmy wrote for me a couple of weeks ago. This is after about a month off in the middle with injury and camping holidays. Thing is, I didn’t really finish it. We were away and I was running unfamiliar routes in “wild country”, plus my route tracker dropped about one and a half kilometres of the track. Very unsatisfying.