Notes on things I learn — kept so I don't forget
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2026-08-02
Bringing stuffaboutcode.com back to life
This blog stopped in 2018. Not deliberately — I just drifted away from it.
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2026-07-22
RAG vs GraphRAG — Two Retrievers, One Question
Ask for “a highly rated action movie about travelling to other planets” and two systems can hand you two very different answers. One reads the plot of every film and returns whatever sounds closest...
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2026-07-03
A Real Neo4j Instance for Every Learner
Reading about a graph database is not the same as using one. You can follow every explanation of a clause perfectly and still freeze the first time you face an empty query editor. When you start a ...
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2018-06-17
Pi Camera stop motion animation
In preparation for a Raspberry Pi event I decided to create a simple GUI for creating stop motion animations using the Pi camera module to use for a demo.
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2018-06-09
Get the weather using Python
I recently spent a hour or so hacking a lucky cat so that it would only wave when it was sunny.
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2018-03-04
Python - Creating shortcuts
I was recently working on the mu project (a Python IDE for beginners), which is super easy to install using pip, but there is no way to automate the creation of desktop and menu shortcuts.
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2017-12-29
Setup Raspberry Pi Samba share
I almost always setup a samba share on every Raspberry Pi I install, it allows me to easily share files and work on my projects - so I thought I had better write down how I do it. Install samba: