Today let’s look into building a visualisation of some bouncing balls with Javascript. The inspiration for building this comes from Harry Stevens over at the Washington Post for his amazing piece of data journalism around the coronavirus. (See the live version over at: https://jackmckew.dev/pelican-and-javascript-bouncing-balls-in-canvas.html) Here is a gif of the…

Building upon a previous post on “How many words have I written in this blog?”, let’s dive into how to share this code with other on PyPI and integrate into this website with a ‘word ticker’ which updates whenever a new post is uploaded. If you are using Python, you’ve…

Recursively counting words in markdown within a folder In the last 55 posts, I’ve written 34846 words in this blog. In comparison, my engineering thesis for graduating university was 9916 words across 69 pages. A question had popped into my mind this week, “How many words have I written in…

The courage to be disliked is a book around the work of a 19th century psychologist who determined that happiness lies within the individual and doesn’t depend on the past whatsoever. I really enjoyed reading this book, and would recommend it to anyone at all walks & stages of life. …

Building upon our terrain generator from the blog post: https://jackmckew.dev/3d-terrain-in-python.html, today we will implement a demonstration of how gradient descent behaves in 3 dimensions and produce an interactive visualisation similar to the terrain visualisation. …

Glossary One of the most useful skills in my opinion in all walks of life is the ability to find information & answers. A very useful tool for doing this is the internet & search engines like Google. In my opinion being able to search the internet for answers to your…

Power of Habits by Charles Duhigg was one of the most useful books I have read. While it doesn’t explicitly step the reader through how to change habits, it thoroughly goes through many examples of where habits have changed other people’s lives, case studies if you will. …

This post goes into how to generate documentation for your python projects automatically with Sphinx! First off we have to install sphinx into our virtual environment. Pending on your flavour, we can do any of the following pip install sphinx conda install sphinx pipenv install sphinx Once you have installed…

Today, let’s put together a 3D visualisation of randomly generated ‘terrain’ with Python. Data visualisation is an absolutely key skill in any developers pocket, as communicating both data, analysis and more is thoroughly simplified through the use of graphs. …