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.
The magic square app squares.cubelife.org can visualise the magic line in various different artistic styles.
The magic lines are drawn using SVG.
Node, intersection observers, service workers, Couch backend.
Also uses Haskell algorithms for generation of sets.
Pamatamap is a journey through my PhD thesis Algorithmic Meta-Creativity.
The map was created using handcrafted SVG, CSS, and JavaScript. The source code is available on github.com/Fania/pamatamap.
Basheau Poems is a mashup of Bashō's haikus and Quenueau's hundred thousand billion poems mechanism.
It is a fully responsive website hosted on my own server.
A prototype can be found on codepen.
A (theoretically infinite) magic carpet can be constructed from a single magic square of a special kind of class. Demonstrates magical properties of carpet and draws the magic line of any magic square within.
Uses HammerJs, SVG, and JavaScript. Source code can be found on GitHub.
Blah Responsive Golden Image Spiral (curved) blah blah.
The website pata.physics.wtf is a poetic search engine produced as part of wider PhD research.
The app is written in Python and uses Natural Language Processing, WordNet, various APIs, and custom written search algorithms.
This website: dr.physics.wtf, is an online version of my PhD thesis (pdf).
The original thesis was written fully in LaTeX, and the conversion to HTML was partially completed with Pandoc but then checked and amended by hand.
Fully responsive, easy-to-use-code using CSS variables, optimised for touch (HammerJS).
A blank reveal presentation that loads in an external markdown file via the url (hosted on GitHub).
This project was created to make lecturing easier.
The handwritten image gallery on my personal homepage is based on responsive CSS grids, CSS filters, lazyloading, and efficient modals.
An online artwork extracting individual diary entries containing words selected according to the intensity of live space weather data.
This was a collaboration between Alice Tuppen-Corps, Dave Everitt and myself.
Basic sentiment analysis and natural language processing in JavaScript, source code.
Very simple but beautiful maths based HTML/CSSOM/JavaScript artwork using random colours. Sourcecode on GitHub.
This was a responsive, browser, local-storage shop demo for computer science students.
This was another very small browser, local-storage like-button demo for computer science students.
This is demo of how to create multi-coloured SVG lines using a magic square example. Uses a similar technique to animation (e.g. Very simple SVG Line Animation) but produces a better/different look to masking (e.g. Multi-coloured SVG line with Mask).
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)git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch "FILENAME"' -f HEAD (DANGEROUS - MAKE BACKUP)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 add server ssh://user@server/full/path/to/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
openssl req -x509 -out localhost.crt -keyout localhost.key \
-newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -sha256 \
-subj '/CN=localhost' -extensions EXT -config <( \
printf "[dn]\nCN=localhost\n[req]\ndistinguished_name = dn\n[EXT]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:localhost\nkeyUsage=digitalSignature\nextendedKeyUsage=serverAuth")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 backgroundconsole.log({x,y,z});console.dir(x); but for each x, y, and znpm 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
sudo sv status | stop | start couchdblocalhost:5984localhost:5984/_utilsnano /opt/couchdb/etc/local.iniclient_max_body_size 100M;sudo mysql -u USERNAME -p (enter sudo pw first, and then the mysql user pw)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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