I'm a lecturer on sabbatical at De Montfort University (DMU) where I've been teaching various modules such as front-end web development, functional programming, and research to a variety of students from different courses across the Faculty of Computing, Engineering, and Media.
I also spend time programming for Ecovisum.
I'm a transdisciplinary creative generalist. I have passion for what I do, and what I think is right. Sometimes that involves saying "no".
My sense of purpose is my own - I'm an introvert.
I have a PhD in Software Engineering/Computer Science. The title of my thesis is Algorithmic Meta-Creativity and it's available as HTML or PDF at dr.physics.wtf.
My research interests revolve around studying human and computer creativity and how they are evaluated, the absurd pseudo philosophy pataphysics and its applications, and the development of creative exploratory search algorithms inspired by pataphysical concepts.
Although the PhD wasn't classed as "practice-based" research, an artefact pata.physics.wtf was submitted alongside the thesis. The software for this was written (mostly) in Python.
January 2020
This project has grown from a proof of concept for drawing magic lines with SVGs, to full dynamic generation of animated magic lines of various orders in various artistic styles.
Dave Everitt and me are presenting a paper on this at EVA 2020 in London this year.
July 2019
April 2018
I have now finished the map for my PhD thesis.
It’s handwritten svg code (based on a design originally created in Inkscape).
November 2017
October 2017
Other favorites: Kameyama, Miyanokoshi, Nojiri, The Dyers District in Kanda, Susaki and the Jumantsubo Plain near Fukagawa, Yuhi Hill and the Drum Bridge at Meguro, Fox Fires on New Years Eve at the Garment Nettle Tree at Oji
October 2017
It’s done.
October 2017
“a web of disambiguation, mirrors, energy, machines, and potential collisions”
October 2017
November 2018
November 2018, March 2014
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Uri Goren:June 2014
Inspired by the infinite solutions log
DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...
git initgit clone URLgit add .git commit -m 'Message'git push origin master or git pushgit push --forcegit branchgit branch -agit branch NAMEgit checkout -b NAMEgit checkout NAMEgit branch -d NAMEgit branch -D NAMEgit push origin --delete NAMEgit loglog --graph --date=short --pretty=format:"%h%x09%ad%x09%s"git rm -rf --cached . and then git add . (make sure gitignore is uptodate)January 2020
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@serverssh-copy-id -i c:\users\name\.ssh\id_rsa.pub user@server-p 1234git init --barecd hookstouch post-receivenano post-receive:
#!/bin/sh
git --work-tree=/home/user/site --git-dir=/home/user/site.git checkout -fchmod +x post-receivegit remote add server user@server:site.gitgit remote -v[alias]
pushall = !git push origin master && git push server mastergit pushallgit remote set-url server ssh://user@server:port/absolute/path/to/site.gitsudo adduser gitsu gitcdmkdir .ssh && chmod 700 .sshtouch .ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keysssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub git@serverssh-copy-id -i c:\users\name\.ssh\id_rsa.pub git@serverAdd the following code to a pre-commit hook in the .git/hooks folder of your repo. This will generate html files from markdown content every time just before you commit.
Make sure you add styles inside a <style> block to a file called "styles". See pandoc command in script below.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Converting markdown files to html with Pandoc..."
for file in markdown/*.md
do
echo "Processing $file"
name=$(basename ${file%%.*})
# echo $name
pandoc $file -f markdown -t html -o html/$name.html -s -H styles --quiet
# --quiet = suppress warning messages
# -s = standalone (full htmlm not snippet)
# -H = include file in header
done
git add .
echo "... and stage generated html files."
August 2019
Secure Sockets Layer
sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-nginx -t stretch-backportssudo certbot --nginx
certbot certificatescertbot renew --dry-runcertbot renew --force-renewalcertbot certonly --cert-name example.com -d example.org,www.example.orgcertbot revoke --cert-path /etc/letsencrypt/live/CERTNAME/cert.pemcrontab -lcrontab -esudo /etc/init.d/cron restart0 0,12 * * * python -c 'import random; import time; time.sleep(random.random() * 3600)' && certbot renew (unconfirmed)wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-autochmod a+x certbot-auto/etc/certbot-auto certificates--no-bootstrapsudo /etc/certbot-auto renew --dry-run0 0,12 * * * python -c 'import random; import time; time.sleep(random.random() * 3600)' && /etc/certbot-auto renew --pre-hook "service nginx stop" --post-hook "service nginx start"fix ssl labs server rating ubuntu nginx link
August 2019
npm i -g pm2pm2 start app.json{
"name": "name-of-app",
"script": "name-of-script.js",
"cwd": "./",
"watch": true,
"ignore_watch": ["node_modules", "logs", ".git", "data"],
"error_file": "./logs/pm2errors.log",
"out_file": "./logs/pm2out.log",
"log_date_format": "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm Z"
}pm2 start app.jspm2 listpm2 startuppm2 stop NUM/NAMEpm2 restart NUM/NAMEpm2 delete NUM/NAMEnpm i -g foreverforever listforever configforever start app.jsforever start -l foreverLog.log -o foreverOutput.log -e foreverErrors.log app.jsforever stop app.jsforever restart app.jsforever start forever.json{
"uid": "name-of-node-app",
"append": true,
"watch": true,
"watchIgnore": ["/absolute/path/logs",
"/absolute/path/irrelevant/stuff"],
"colors": true,
"script": "server.js",
"sourceDir": "/absolute/path",
"logFile": "/absolute/path/logs/forever.log",
"outFile": "/absolute/path/logs/foreverout.log",
"errFile": "/absolute/path/logs/forevererror.log"
}{
"uid": "name-of-python-app",
"append": true,
"watch": false,
"colors": true,
"script": "wsgi.py",
"command": "venv/bin/python",
"sourceDir": "/absolute/path",
"logFile": "/absolute/path/logs/forever.log",
"outFile": "/absolute/path/logs/foreverout.log",
"errFile": "/absolute/path/logs/forevererror.log"
}forever restart uid-of-processlsb_release -dcat /proc/versiondf -hdu -hdu -h -s *ps -efsudo adduser namechown user filechown -R user folderchgrp group filechgrp -R group foldernano /etc/ssh/sshd_config/etc/init.d/ssh restartusermod -aG sudo usernameservice nginx stopservice nginx restartservice nginx statusnginx -tln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/name /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/nameps aux | grep [n]ginxkill -9 1234 for each process!service nginx startscreen -lsscreen -S namescreen -xscreen -r namescreen -S NUMBER -X quitshow ports used: netstat -plutn
Command-line Interfaces
nanoCustomisation stuff in C:\Users\Fania\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\profiles.json
type -a NAMEwhich NAMEwhereis <NAME>source ~/.bash_profileSET PATH=%PATH%;C:\CmdShortcuts (unconfirmed)Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSignedGet-ExecutionPolicymix-blend-mode: difference for automatic contrast colour for backgroundnpm init to create package.jsonnpm i XYZ or npm install XYZ to install XYZ into local "node_modules" foldernode app.js` or node app` to run appnpm rm XYZ to remove XYZnpm uninstall XYZ to remove XYZprocess.stdout.write("Downloading " + data.length + " bytes\r"); to print to console in same line as before...process.stdout.write("Downloading " + data.length + " bytes\033[0G"); to print to console in same line as before...Cross references - see also Pandoc & Git Hooks.
March 2020
October 2017
March 2020
localhost:5984localhost:5984/_utilsnano /opt/couchdb/etc/local.iniclient_max_body_size 100M;October 2017
vsce login user-namevsce packagevsce publish minor/majorOctober 2017
:set prompt "\x03BB> "October 2017
from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wnfor l in synset.lemmas():str(lemma.name())synset.lemmas()[0].antonyms()pip install -Iv https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/nltk/nltk-3.0.0b1.tar.gz#md5=f3f67fcda9bc76f57d91811a572c36e4pythonimport nltknltk.download()nltk.download('stopwords') and nltk.download('wordnet')import nltknltk.data.path.append("PATH/TO/nltk_data")April 2020
See also info on screen
python -Vpip -Vpython3.8 -Vpython3.8 -m venv venvsource venv/bin/activate
from app import app
from waitress import serve
if __name__ == "__main__":
serve(app, host='127.0.0.1', port=8001)
python wsgi.pycd /usr/binrm -f pythonln -s /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python pythonpip install -U pippython -m pip install -U pippip install NAMEpip install NAME==1.0.4pip install -Iv Link-to-tar.gzpip uninstall NAMEpip listpip list --outdatedpip install --upgrade NAMEpip freeze --local > requirements.txtpip freeze > requirements.txtpip install -r requirements.txtpython -m venv NAMEvirtualenv NAME. NAME/bin/activateNAME\scripts\activatedeactivatemkvirtualenv ENVNAMEworkon or lsvirtualenvworkon ENVNAMEdeactivatedeactivate and then rmvirtualenv ENVNAMEsetprojectdir <project_path>setvirtualenvproject [virtualenv_path project_path]C:\PythonXY\scripts\mkvirtualenv.bat with the following changes on lines 47, 48virtualenv.exe %*REM python.exe "%PYHOME%\Scripts\virtualenv-script.py" %ARGS%C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts;export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvsexport PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Desktop/PhD_Offline/Git_codesource /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/virtualenvwrapper.shPATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}"PYTHONPATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/:${PYTHONPATH}"export PATHOctober 2017
powercg /batteryreportheroku login (needs authenticator code)git push heroku master only in git bash !October 2017
Yuki & Aya and her kittens :)
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