• Mar 19, 2025 - Thank you to the student who nominated me (89 words): I have been noniminated for 3 Enriching Student Life Awards.

  • Feb 18, 2025 - Getting specific contents of a large number of files (91 words): This is a short post showing how to cat the contents of a large number of files (too large to use a standard approach) to a file.

  • Jan 19, 2025 - Names of Mathematicians as group names (1247 words): I use group work for assessment in both my modules. For the second year I’m using blackboard’s group system to facilitate the creation of the groups. It allows you to create names for the groups, and this year I decided to try and do something different than “Group 1”, “Group 2”, “Group 3”.

  • Jan 13, 2025 - Properties of winning strategies (171 words): Over the Christmas period my co-authors and I got news of the acceptance of a paper:

  • Oct 18, 2024 - Visiting lectureship at the University of Namibia and PyCon NA 2024 (997 words): Renewed Partnership between the University Namibia and the School of Mathematics

  • Sep 30, 2024 - Where am I from? (462 words): I have been teaching for about 15 years. One common point of interest from my students (sometimes more than what I am teaching) is where I am from? I usually let students try and figure it out, which until two years ago was what I thought was essentially impossible (bravo to Ilia!).

  • Sep 02, 2024 - Creating a shared directory on linux (247 words): This is a quick how to reminder for creating shared directories on linux. This is mainly to avoid committing large amounts of data files and instead using a shared computer that can be scp‘d back and forth to.

  • Aug 01, 2024 - Moving my posts (19 words): I am moving my blog to here.

  • Aug 01, 2024 - 🪑 (31 words): I have been promoted to a personal chair of Mathematics at Cardiff University.