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How to make an Excel File that Auto Updates with Results from Microsoft Forms

2021-05-142021-05-14 — Posted inPhD Diary, Productivity — 5 min read

How to get a live auto-updating Excel spreadsheet with responses from Microsoft Forms

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Productivity Software is bad for Productivity

2021-01-042020-12-16 — Posted inPhD Diary, Productivity — 5 min read

Online productivity tools, forms and automation, leaves me frustrated and could be improved a lot.

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Crippled e-books are worthless

2020-12-212020-12-14 — Posted inLiterature, PhD Diary, Technology — 3 min read

My university issued this notice during exam time – A time when students are most in need of revision material: A number of eBooks are in high demand at the […]

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Research papers are not easy to read

2020-11-052020-11-04 — Posted inPhD Diary, Productivity, Technology — 7 min read

Research papers are not easy to read. There are loads of ways we could improve them. Here’s a few.

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Virtual Conferencing at UKICER

2020-09-072020-09-04 — Posted inPhD Diary — 3 min read

I recently attended UKICER. This year the conference was entirely online. This was a new experience for me, I’ve written up what I thought about it.

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Aberdeen & ITiCSE 2019

2019-07-302020-03-27 — Posted inPersonal, PhD Diary, Photography, Science, Travel — 8 min read

I recently attended the ITiCSE Conference in Aberdeen.

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The EuroS&P Experience

2019-07-012020-03-27 — Posted inPersonal, PhD Diary, Science, Travel — 16 min read

I recently attended the EuroS&P conference, and the co-located EuroUSec workshop. This year both were held in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Extending an Extension for Visual Studio Code

2019-04-152020-03-27 — Posted inPhD Diary, Software, Technology — 6 min read

Last year, I was working on adding some new features to a Visual Studio Code Extension. I’ve decided to try and organise my thoughts on the matter.

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Data Policy Compliance

2019-03-182020-03-27 — Posted inPersonal, PhD Diary, Privacy, Science — 5 min read

Recently, Google took an extension down from the chrome web store that I had previously been using as part of a research project. Here are my thoughts on the matter.

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30 years of Paywalled Articles

2019-03-112020-03-27 — Posted inLiterature, PhD Diary, Science — 5 min read

I want to take a moment to talk about the availability of scientific articles, in this 30th anniversary of the world wide web.

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Remotely accessing a Jupyter notebook

2019-01-152020-03-27 — Posted inPersonal, PhD Diary — 4 min read

I was recently in a situation where I needed to remotely access a python notebook. Here’s how I went about doing it.

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