Bede Kelly

I've recently dug into using Redux with React apps, and it's got tons in common with Elm – both have an 'immutable state tree' and represent changes to that tree using Actions. Elm has

After reading some of Google's ProtoBuf documentation, and working extensively with Apache Thrift, I decided I could learn most effectively by creating my own proof-of-concept binary serialization framework. I would work in a

I'd like to write a story game in Elm, along the lines of my previous browser game 5:28. However I'd like to design it with a modern frontend framework, rather than stringing

While writing a blog post about phone keypad sounds, I realised I'd never done the maths to work out how semitone cents would be split up logarithmically. So here's a run-down of how

I've always been interested in phone keypad sounds, so I tried to replicate them. Here's what I managed to work out just by ear: Each key has a unique sound The unique sound

Hashtables are a neat way of storing (key, value) pairs with fast lookup, insertion and deletion times. I've written a simple implementation of a hashtable with a view to making an extremely easy-to-understand

In the spirit of fairness, since I've spent so much time using AWS Lambda functions, I thought I'd give Google's latest offering a try. However, following the instructions to create a simple cloud

The preprocessor included with C compilers is a strange beast. By far its most common use is to #include various header files, and to #define static variables for later use. But there's other,

After programming in Java for altogether too long, I've developed a healthy appetite for the humble Enum. There's a problem, though: Python's enum is ugly. Ugly as hell: class Something(Enum): x = 1

I've had an idea brewing for a while. I'd like to be able to use a single command, available on any device with SSH, to load a fresh image of any operating system

So I've finally got around to making a text game! Sort of. Instead of running in a text-based environment like a console and accepting English-language commands as input, I made the decision to

I recently watched Rob Pike's talk on Concurrency Patterns in Go, and was really impressed by how easy it was to make solid concurrent code without relying on threads, mutexes/locks or anything

Amazon don't sell their IoT Button in the UK. But that didn't stop Aran and I from making a pretty sweet hack over the weekend... ...and winning Best Use of AWS, at my

N.B. This has now been fixed! Good job. However long it took. I found a Google vulnerability today. And I got hyped. Really hyped. Except, as it turns out, not all vulnerabilities

I got an Amazon Dash button in the post today! And nope, I don't have a Nerf gun -- I'm just grabbing the button because it's super-hackable. I got the Nerf one because,

Before I kick off, here's what I'm most proud of right now: If that looks too horrific, here's the same info from Postman: And if that's too much... this might not be the

So it all started when Josh Simpson gave a talk at BrumHack 2.0... ...and then, a couple of months later, when I remembered the talk, and decided to apply to HackCampus through

Here's a sweet chord progression I just found: The root chords aren't anything too fancy: just I -> VII -> VI. But the voicings are pretty neat: Left: A E G,

It turns out Travis CI supports deploying directly to AWS Lambda: something I should have checked before doing any of the messy configuration with specifying IAM user policies for accessing an S3 bucket

Who needs servers anyway? I've been wanting to try out AWS Lambda and API Gateway for a while now, so I thought it'd be a neat idea to write a tiny, not-even-slightly-useful microservice.