Simon's Blog

Update 1: Understanding Malta's Urban landscape like never before

A latent bug three years in the making

Ten years of experience, still making stupid SQL mistakes - part 2

Ten years of experience, still making stupid SQL mistakes - part 1

Why teach a computer to understand Maltese?

Fine-tuning Whisper for the Maltese Language

Working Frigate configuration for the TP-Link Tapo C110 for both video and audio

All the steps required to turn an RTX 2060 into an OpenAI drop-in replacement

An easy way to generate mixed datasets using symbolic links

An important difference between OpenCV and YOLO Computer Vision models

Reviewing the Petoi Bittle (Part 3 of 3)

Reviewing the Petoi Bittle (Part 2 of 3)

Reviewing the Petoi Bittle (Part 1 of 3)

An assessment of a recent responsible disclosure gone wrong in Malta

Computing on four legs with a Raspberry Pi

Lessons learned about Web Scraping through multiple side projects

Leveraging a supplier cutting corners to take over user accounts

Thoughts about tone deaf and paradoxical marketing

Thoughts about how remote work is subtly done correctly

How I accidentally pentested a company and helped avoid a GDPR incident

Thoughts about a four day work week from someone who worked 32 hours a week

Using k8s to scale up testing of Battlesnake variants

Hardware still matters when it comes to Docker

Using go embed to streamline deployment

Part 6 of a series on writing a real-time game in Go and Typescript

Part 5 of a series on writing a real-time game in Go and Typescript

Playing hide and seek with docker

When things work on my machine but not in my container

A visualisation of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malta using web technology and open data

Part 4 of a series on writing a real-time game in Go and Typescript

Part 3 of a series on writing a real-time game in Go and Typescript

Part 2 of a series on writing a real-time game in Go and Typescript

Riċerka dwar it-teknoloġija tal-App tal-Contact tracing f'Malta

A review of the technology behind Malta's Contact Tracing Mobile App

Part 1 of a series on writing a real-time game in Go and Typescript

Changing what and how I track tasks during my workday as a Software Developer

Part 0 of a series on writing a real-time game in Go and Typescript

An experimental time tracker for Software Development Workflows

The tools I install when starting from scratch on a fresh Ubuntu install

How the temporary solution regarding SEC grades will have permanent effects