Last Updated: 2nd May 2025
As of yesterday, I have finished my undergraduate course (BSc UX Design at Edinburgh Napier University)! It’s not hit me properly yet I don’t think, so I’m waiting until that happens, and then I’ll start moving on to the next stage. Read next month’s Now Page if you want to hear more when that happens.
I’m still very active on the air, trying to get at least 1 contact a day. That’s making me a much better amateur operator, and more confident on the air. I’m on 2m and 70cms almost exclusively now, but occasionally have the Meshtastic on too.
I wrote my first blog in a long time last Wednesday. Having finished the honours project, I hope I’ll be able to get out, and have some words left in me when I get back too. I’ve written far too much about library systems in the past month! I also don’t think I mentioned, but the bug I referred to in this blog (where the site would take about 1.1x longer to build with every added page) was getting to me, so a few weeks ago, I decided to hunt it down and squash it. As I had surmised in that blog, I had got a loop wrong. In fact, a single wrongly-indented line of Python was enough to do it, and now that’s all fixed, the site builds in less than 3 seconds! A marked improvement.
I picked up a copy of a book in the local charity bookshop about Pugin, an architect whose work I have admired from a distance for a while, but about whom I know relatively little. It’s called God’s architect: Pugin and the building of romantic Britain if you’re interested.
As I have said, I am a little out-written at the moment (in the past three days I have typed roughly 18,000 words), so I apologise for the shorter-than usual Now Page, but hope it brings you some happiness anyway.
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