The late 1960s, enjoying gradual increases year on year in computational power, gave birth to a more recreational form of computing. One particular game, Hamurabi (1968), was a text-based game intended to teach sixth-grade students of America in order to teach them basic economics, commissioned and funded by the U.S…

All of my projects up to and including this point seem to have taken an intensely mathematical, algorithmic perspective of things, even if the project would appear the furthest thing from mathematical at first sight. For this project, and for my previous project, I did not simply set out to…

I’ve grappled more than once with trying to use PostgreSQL. For one, I wanted to deploy my Ruby on Rails project, but this was not possible with the database I was forced to use, SQLite3. In this respect, Mac users have the luxury of Homebrew which removes all the heartache…

The human condition, particularly mortality, has been the focus of mankind for as long as abstract human thought has existed, likely with the dawn of language some time between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, distinguishing us from all other beasts. That our friends and family will surely die as their…

Most people who know me well would say that I retain knowledge on some of the most useless of topics. Who exactly needs to know that the funny bone is not really a bone at all, but a nerve? Perhaps you, dear reader, did not know that the hash symbol…

The royal history of the United Kingdom, spanning from its humble beginnings of the Kingdom of Wessex to the United Kingdom under the House of Windsor, shows a wild tale of conquest, oppression, scandal, and honour. …

As a young, scientifically-inclined student, I had gradually developed a fascination with programming, particularly after following someone’s instructions online about how to load and run Tetris on to my brand new TI-84 calculator. My early understanding had been quite rudimentary, however. Less inclined towards designing websites, dreams of being able…