Archive

2026  2

August  1

The AI Bubble Isn’t Bursting. Its Reflections Are.

22 August 2026 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

The Code Doesn’t Care Who Wrote It: Why Context, Not AI Fear, Will Define Modern Application Security

28 April 2026 · Andrew Bolster

2025  6

December  1

Bolstering Claude Code: A Personal Development Environment Configuration Guide

1 December 2025 · Andrew Bolster

August  2

GPS III: Where Are We? And Where Are We Going? [Archive]

22 August 2025 · Andrew Bolster

Notes from “Will GenAI Revolutionise our Lives for the Good?”

8 August 2025 · Andrew Bolster

July  1

Being a DORC in the age of Generative AI

14 July 2025 · Andrew Bolster

March  2

On Deepseek

16 March 2025 · Andrew Bolster

AIOps Maturity Model

15 March 2025 · Andrew Bolster

2024  5

September  1

On OpenAI o1

22 September 2024 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

“Context all the way down”: Primer on methods of Experience injection for LLMs

29 April 2024 · Andrew Bolster

February  2

Farewell Farset

28 February 2024 · Andrew Bolster

Generative AI: Impact on Software Development and Security

19 February 2024 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

Jupyter Environment Management for Dummies

17 January 2024 · Andrew Bolster

2023  2

May  1

Pulling Election Count data out of Google Sheets for fun and democracy

18 May 2023 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

StayCation2023

1 April 2023 · Andrew Bolster

2022  2

March  1

Wrangling NI House Price Index Data

27 March 2022 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

Lies, Damned Lies, and Data Science

4 January 2022 · Andrew Bolster

2021  6

November  2

Generative Adversarial Procrastination

26 November 2021 · Andrew Bolster

UUIDs and You

10 November 2021 · Andrew Bolster

July  1

Counting Tabs and Background Tasks: Taunting Goodharts Demon

22 July 2021 · Andrew Bolster

June  2

Response to TOG’s Third Eviction

10 June 2021 · Andrew Bolster

Apache Arrow in 5-10 Mins

1 June 2021 · Andrew Bolster

March  1

Dr StrangeBot: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Machine Learning

24 March 2021 · Andrew Bolster

2020  9

October  2

A Stranger in a Strange Land: Data Science Onboarding In Practice

20 October 2020 · Andrew Bolster

Tell me about your Programmer - Robopsychologist and other careers that don’t exist (yet)

19 October 2020 · Andrew Bolster

September  1

Back to reality

8 September 2020 · Andrew Bolster

June  1

Merging Git Repos for Archival Purposes

23 June 2020 · Andrew Bolster

May  1

Pragmatic Data Science; When Unstoppable Math meets Immovable Ethics

22 May 2020 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

Is Your AI Ethical?

26 April 2020 · Andrew Bolster

March  1

The Importance of Active Learning in Data Science and Engineering

4 March 2020 · Andrew Bolster

February  2

Mosquitto (MQTT) Emon Pi (Open Energy Monitor) Forwarding Bridge

18 February 2020 · Andrew Bolster

Headless Pi Configuration with Multi-Wifi Remote Access

17 February 2020 · Andrew Bolster

2019  3

November  1

Python Script as a Reliable Service

21 November 2019 · Andrew Bolster

June  1

Data Art: Creative Collisions and Getting out of your comfort zone

17 June 2019 · Andrew Bolster

May  1

And Now I Am 31

17 May 2019 · Andrew Bolster

2018  3

October  2

Unfeeling Fire

23 October 2018 · Andrew Bolster

Daily Dated Untitled Jupyter Notebooks

22 October 2018 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

Hackaday Unconf Dublin Talk: Socially Accessible Computing

9 April 2018 · Andrew Bolster

2017  3

October  1

My Basic (Python) Data Science Setup

24 October 2017 · Andrew Bolster

September  2

Legal Considerations for Trusted Defence Autonomy

28 September 2017 · Andrew Bolster

Human Factors related to Trusted Operation of Autonomous Systems

21 September 2017 · Andrew Bolster

2016  2

October  1

Git Split Repository With Commit History

17 October 2016 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

FIX: CUDA on Debian Jessie

15 April 2016 · Andrew Bolster

2015  5

October  1

One Direction: Why I’m still a director at Farset Labs

24 October 2015 · Andrew Bolster

September  1

Return of the Beard

7 September 2015 · Andrew Bolster

May  1

Data Wrangling for UK Internet Usage

23 May 2015 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

SNMP Monitoring and Configuration for Networks and Linux Host Monitoring

24 April 2015 · Andrew Bolster

February  1

Unattended Updates in Linux Mint

6 February 2015 · Andrew Bolster

2014  10

July  2

I do not understand credit markets

29 July 2014 · Andrew Bolster

IPython Websocket Failure on Chrome

25 July 2014 · Andrew Bolster

May  3

Translink, it’s things like this that remind me why you suck so hard

21 May 2014 · Andrew Bolster

So, what is it you do again?

13 May 2014 · Andrew Bolster

Multiprocessing Niceness in Python

7 May 2014 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

Generating a unit 3 vector in Python (Uniform Spherical Projection)

9 April 2014 · Andrew Bolster

January  4

Review: Learning Cython Programming

31 January 2014 · Andrew Bolster

Octave 3.8 on Mint (or Ubuntu)

22 January 2014 · Andrew Bolster

Unicode Madness in Jekyll

20 January 2014 · Andrew Bolster

The Making of a Timelapse

11 January 2014 · Andrew Bolster

2013  15

December  2

Installing Ubuntu Touch on the Nexus 7

20 December 2013 · Andrew Bolster

TEDx: How it went and how it could have gone

19 December 2013 · Andrew Bolster

November  2

Remember Remember … November 1963?

22 November 2013 · Andrew Bolster

Response to the Draft Innovation Strategy for Northern Ireland - Part 2 - Knowledge Generation

1 November 2013 · Andrew Bolster

October  1

Response to the Draft Innovation Strategy for Northern Ireland - Part 1

23 October 2013 · Andrew Bolster

July  2

SSH Persistence Redux: Multiple sites and Crontab Laziness

6 July 2013 · Andrew Bolster

QUB Email Settings that Actually Work

2 July 2013 · Andrew Bolster

June  1

So long and thanks for all the fish

20 June 2013 · Andrew Bolster

May  2

Those who can…

28 May 2013 · Andrew Bolster

Fix: Dell Laptops and workstations not rebooting (“Restarting System”)

3 May 2013 · Andrew Bolster

April  2

Mercurial to Git transfer; problems, and pitfalls.

26 April 2013 · Andrew Bolster

Abracadabra - NI Assembly’s Plans to have 60% more PhD Researchers

10 April 2013 · Andrew Bolster

February  2

Bus Services, a simple change for @Translink_NI, a big help for @NISP_Connect and @ECIT_QUB

13 February 2013 · Andrew Bolster

IT @ QUB are moving forward

11 February 2013 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

“The Pitch”

22 January 2013 · Andrew Bolster

2012  16

December  1

Happy New Year

31 December 2012 · Andrew Bolster

October  1

Idiots Guide to Updating Nexus 7 to Latest ROM

11 October 2012 · Andrew Bolster

September  2

4G and ‘The Northern Ireland Problem’

10 September 2012 · Andrew Bolster

RMS is coming to town

5 September 2012 · Andrew Bolster

July  2

Deus Ex, or How I learned to stop Torrenting and Love Digital Distribution

29 July 2012 · Andrew Bolster

The concept of Quality and my ‘mission’

20 July 2012 · Andrew Bolster

June  4

Unattended upgrades in Ubuntu

13 June 2012 · Andrew Bolster

LitReview: Communication in a behaviour-based approach to target detection and tracking with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

12 June 2012 · Andrew Bolster

LitReview: An Overview on Behaviour based methods for AUV Control

12 June 2012 · Andrew Bolster

An exercise in academic writing

11 June 2012 · Andrew Bolster

April  5

Turning Pcap dumps into Message Sequence Charts

30 April 2012 · Andrew Bolster

NS-3 Click integration

30 April 2012 · Andrew Bolster

K8055 USB + Python + Twitter + IRC: Space Indicator as a OS Service

10 April 2012 · Andrew Bolster

Python + irclib for IRC Status Updates

10 April 2012 · Andrew Bolster

Python + Oauth2 for Twitter Status Updates

10 April 2012 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

My Guide To My Own Favourite Ubuntu Setup

5 January 2012 · Andrew Bolster

2011  32

December  3

Ringing in the New Year by seeing out the old

31 December 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Guide to Persistent Reverse SSH Shells and Port Forwards

8 December 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Guide to Expanding Oracle Virtualbox Drives

8 December 2011 · Andrew Bolster

October  5

Unicode Characters in Mendeley Bibliography Breaking Latex?

26 October 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 2011/10/23

23 October 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Mendeley Repeated Citations in BibTeX Library

19 October 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Today’s Accomplishments: The 2.0 Generation

17 October 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Vim Latex Suite Install on Ubuntu

5 October 2011 · Andrew Bolster

September  4

Through The Drinking Glass

29 September 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Force 32 bit installs on 64 bit systems (Deb/RPM)

29 September 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/09/2011

23 September 2011 · Andrew Bolster

PhD Diary: An Introduction and A Little Light Reading

15 September 2011 · Andrew Bolster

August  2

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/08/2011

23 August 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Best Description of Northern Ireland I’ve heard yet

4 August 2011 · Andrew Bolster

July  3

The Road to Coreboot, Part the First: Introduction

28 July 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/07/2011

23 July 2011 · Andrew Bolster

GalepX Language settings in Linux

19 July 2011 · Andrew Bolster

June  4

Replace Unity with AWN and Gnome-Do

28 June 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Removing BIOS RAID Metadata

25 June 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/06/2011

23 June 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Change Kindle Network Provider

9 June 2011 · Andrew Bolster

May  2

Accidentally Proper Kindle PDF Document Conversion

23 May 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/05/2011

23 May 2011 · Andrew Bolster

April  4

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/04/2011

23 April 2011 · Andrew Bolster

LU Decomposition in C (and under CUDA)

18 April 2011 · Andrew Bolster

CUDA Compute 20 Error and other issues

14 April 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Why Belfast Needs a Hackerspace

7 April 2011 · Andrew Bolster

March  1

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/03/2011

23 March 2011 · Andrew Bolster

February  2

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/02/2011

23 February 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Bolsters Code-Related Rants (An ongoing collection)

12 February 2011 · Andrew Bolster

January  2

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/01/2011

23 January 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Rant: Job Applications

8 January 2011 · Andrew Bolster

2010  74

December  1

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/12/2010

23 December 2010 · Andrew Bolster

October  3

What the Hack?

23 October 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/10/2010

23 October 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Hackathon

14 October 2010 · Andrew Bolster

September  3

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/09/2010

23 September 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Kindle 3G 3.0.2 Experience

21 September 2010 · Andrew Bolster

News from the Belfast Hackerspace

7 September 2010 · Andrew Bolster

August  2

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/08/2010

23 August 2010 · Andrew Bolster

High-Frequency Trading Revolt, and Why its a good idea!!

4 August 2010 · Andrew Bolster

July  4

Citrix Web Client with Ubuntu

24 July 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month - 23/07/2010

23 July 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Belfast Hackerspace Anyone?

17 July 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Intel 4965: Poor wireless performance under Ubuntu

8 July 2010 · Andrew Bolster

June  7

Great HOPEs

24 June 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 23/06/2010

23 June 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 16/06/2010

16 June 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Ongoing CUDA work, aka, I love this book.

14 June 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 09/06/2010

9 June 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 02/06/2010

2 June 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Customised User Directories in Ubuntu

1 June 2010 · Andrew Bolster

May  7

Automagic Kernel Cleaning under Ubuntu

31 May 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 26/05/2010

26 May 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Coming Soon!

20 May 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 19/05/2010

19 May 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 12/05/2010

12 May 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 05/05/2010

5 May 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Ubuntu Boosting Blog Hits

4 May 2010 · Andrew Bolster

April  13

SEE, Programming Abstractions, Assignment 1

28 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 28/04/2010

28 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Ads Outside the Box?

24 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 21/04/2010

21 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Add a Twitter @anywhere hovercard to links containing tweeps

17 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shaded Headers in Thematic

16 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 14/04/2010

14 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Facebook Group Library

13 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

US confirm status as ACTA transparancy stopping block

12 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Listing just dot-files

9 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

The DE Bill, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tor

9 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 07/04/2010

7 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Mod_Rewrite in Apache2

1 April 2010 · Andrew Bolster

March  19

4 Dimensional Game promises to be a mind-frak

31 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Kids Sing Portal “Still Alive”

31 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 31/03/2010

31 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Wordpress category page

31 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

What to do when Ubuntu Device-mapper seems to be invincible!

26 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

My Experience with Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

24 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Entry 0

24 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 24/03/2010

24 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Chmod on lots of files

23 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 17/03/2010

17 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Installing and Configuring NS-3 on a Ubuntu System

14 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Mercurial Quick Start Cheatsheet

13 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Line Parsing Reminder (Duplicate removal)

12 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

GSOC or Having a go at Network Simulator

12 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

So what can you do with 32 Million Passwords…

10 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 10/03/2010

10 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 10/03/2010

10 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Any Port in a Storm

6 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 03/03/2010

3 March 2010 · Andrew Bolster

February  7

(Would have been) An introduction to Google Adwords

26 February 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 24/02/2010

24 February 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 17/02/2010

17 February 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 10/02/2010

10 February 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shamed

3 February 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 03/02/2010

3 February 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 03/02/2010

3 February 2010 · Andrew Bolster

January  8

Shared Items - 27/01/2010

27 January 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Online Media Marketing

25 January 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Ubuntu / Windows Sharing a Dropbox folder on NTFS

24 January 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 20/01/2010

20 January 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Are we on the brink of War?

17 January 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 13/01/2010

13 January 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 06/01/2010

6 January 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Application Idea: What do you think?

3 January 2010 · Andrew Bolster

2009  21

December  1

New Years Resolutions

31 December 2009 · Andrew Bolster

November  3

Peter Mandelson… TV Producer, Spin-doctor, Politician, Tosser

25 November 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Lenovo, not so rocking anymore

9 November 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Save The Internet

2 November 2009 · Andrew Bolster

July  3

Delayed Post: How I Installed Windows 7 From USB HDD

13 July 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Delayed Post: LENOVO ROCKS

13 July 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

12 July 2009 · Andrew Bolster

June  1

Change Of Plans…..

28 June 2009 · Andrew Bolster

May  3

Scala-Euler Problem1

27 May 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Lenovo x61 Tablet Hard Drive (Near) Disaster

22 May 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Staggering Unproductivity

13 May 2009 · Andrew Bolster

April  3

Linux foundation Video

14 April 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Work Thought Of The Day

7 April 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Set up and running of DNS tunnelling on MBWE

4 April 2009 · Andrew Bolster

March  3

The Omleritto

29 March 2009 · Andrew Bolster

On Education and Employability

3 March 2009 · Andrew Bolster

New Productivity Mantra

1 March 2009 · Andrew Bolster

February  3

Testing The Gnome Blog Panel Thingy

28 February 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Convergence

28 February 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Hacking Weekend

15 February 2009 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

Big Move

3 January 2009 · Andrew Bolster

2008  15

November  1

MBWE Fuel Gauge -> Speedometer conversion

6 November 2008 · Andrew Bolster

October  3

My conkyrc

27 October 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Getting Skype to work with weird webcams.

25 October 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Links

6 October 2008 · Andrew Bolster

September  2

Primers Coming Up

24 September 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Long Extended Break: Hardware Update

14 September 2008 · Andrew Bolster

May  8

EEEpc note

24 May 2008 · Andrew Bolster

EEE Update etc

13 May 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Another Uni Project

13 May 2008 · Andrew Bolster

I want

13 May 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Asus EEEpc

12 May 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Folding Code

12 May 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Embedded C GPS Project

12 May 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Update

11 May 2008 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

CES 2008

7 January 2008 · Andrew Bolster

2007  2

December  2

Installation of VMWare Server (Windows)

16 December 2007 · Andrew Bolster

Introduction

16 December 2007 · Andrew Bolster