Rainbow Connection – #PictureThisUL research photo finalist
The University of Limerick does a photo competition every year to encourage researchers to come up with visual ways to represent their research. I figured I’d give it a go…
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Heterogeneity of Autism Art Project
https://youtube.com/shorts/R4sKQ_m8OC8?feature=shared Autism is heterogeneous. Dr Stephen Shore, a well-known autism advocate, famously stated"If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.". Autism’s heterogeneous nature makes…
Colour Communication Badges Steampunk Hat
Below are some of the details of my physical computing midterm project: The specification for this project was to build a rough prototype of ANYTHING using an Arduino and 1…
AR Unity game to teach children about idioms
Main Idea This is a game targeted at autistic children with difficulties understanding figurative language, though it could potentially be used by any child. Neurodiversity is the term used to…
Python: black and flake8 pre-commit hooks
I like to use pre-commit hooks in my code before git commits. They are handy for automatic clean-up and to highlight possible issues. Most commonly I use flake8 and black.…
Pytest & Selenium – use same tests for LIVE, TEST and DEV
Most web platforms these days require at least 3 instances; the production/LIVE version, a test version and a development version. No one wants to have to write and maintain a…
Over specialisation costs
“The world rewards specialization, but- specialization comes at a cost. You learn more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing.” – Nathan Myhrvold
Useful Website Testing Tools
A list of some of the useful website testing tools I tend to rely on for testing website speed, usability and accuracy. WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool WAVE® is a…
Python Django Fortune Telling App
Fortune is a Python Django Fortune Telling App. It is a demo project (in beta). Within the project are 3 apps. Firstly there is the main app: 'card'. This "reads…
Good Unity game tutorial – Mad Birds in C#
A good Unity game tutorial can be hard to find. I love learning new things. So far this year I've attended a day long course in Silverwork, achieved an Amazon…
Multipotentialite visualisation of interests
A multipotentialite is a person who has many different interests and creative pursuits in life. Multipotentialites have no “one true calling” the way specialists do. Being a multipotentialite is our destiny. We have many paths and…
You can’t be what you can’t see – WIP SeeBe Chrome Extension
"You can't be what you can't see" - Marian Wright Edelman. Now there's a chrome extension for that: SeeBe Chrome Extension. I've been an engineer and software developer for over…
Rule #3:
Once the same code is replicated three times, it should be extracted into a new procedure.
– by Martin Fowler in his text “Refactoring” and attributed to Don Roberts
Celebrating Women In Engineering
The event: I recently had the fantastic opportunity to volunteer at the Celebrating Women In Engineering And Computer Science event at King Edward VII School. On the 1st of July…