10th May 2025
In the past I’ve been interested in how to mentally calculate the weekday of any date (if you’re interested, more on this at the end!), but recently I was thinking about a similar — and more straightforward — problem: what will the day be in X days? This may sound like a difficult problem — one that requires a pen… Continue reading »
21st August 2021
If you're still serving images in long-time standard formats such as JPEG and PNG then a Google PageSpeed Insights analysis of your site will identify an opportunity to improve your page loading times by serving images in "next-gen" formats. There are several so-called "next-gen" image formats which offer superior compression to JPEG and PNG but in this post we will… Continue reading »
5th December 2021
Treasure Dash was a game idea which I'd previously made with a friend as a group project in university. The initial version was written in Java but it was very basic and unfinished. I decided to rebuild the project for the web and bring our initial vision to life. Continue reading »
11th January 2021
The Prisoner's Dilemma is a hugely influential game in the field of Game Theory. In Richard Dawkins' seminal 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, he describes a competition organised by political scientist Robert Axelrod in which competitors could submit code for strategies for playing the game which were then pitted against each other. In this NodeJS app, I implement my own version… Continue reading »