Archive

2025  6

December  1

Bolstering Claude Code: A Personal Development Environment Configuration Guide

December 1, 2025 · Andrew Bolster

August  2

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

August 22, 2025 · Andrew Bolster

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

August 8, 2025 · Andrew Bolster

July  1

Being a DORC in the age of Generative AI

July 14, 2025 · Andrew Bolster

March  2

On Deepseek

March 16, 2025 · Andrew Bolster

AIOps Maturity Model

March 15, 2025 · Andrew Bolster

2024  5

September  1

On OpenAI o1

September 22, 2024 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

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

April 29, 2024 · Andrew Bolster

February  2

Farewell Farset

February 28, 2024 · Andrew Bolster

Generative AI: Impact on Software Development and Security

February 19, 2024 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

Jupyter Environment Management for Dummies

January 17, 2024 · Andrew Bolster

2023  2

May  1

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

May 18, 2023 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

StayCation2023

April 1, 2023 · Andrew Bolster

2022  2

March  1

Wrangling NI House Price Index Data

March 27, 2022 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

Lies, Damned Lies, and Data Science

January 4, 2022 · Andrew Bolster

2021  6

November  2

Generative Adversarial Procrastination

November 26, 2021 · Andrew Bolster

UUIDs and You

November 10, 2021 · Andrew Bolster

July  1

Counting Tabs and Background Tasks: Taunting Goodharts Demon

July 22, 2021 · Andrew Bolster

June  2

Response to TOG’s Third Eviction

June 10, 2021 · Andrew Bolster

Apache Arrow in 5-10 Mins

June 1, 2021 · Andrew Bolster

March  1

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

March 24, 2021 · Andrew Bolster

2020  9

October  2

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

October 20, 2020 · Andrew Bolster

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

October 19, 2020 · Andrew Bolster

September  1

Back to reality

September 8, 2020 · Andrew Bolster

June  1

Merging Git Repos for Archival Purposes

June 23, 2020 · Andrew Bolster

May  1

Pragmatic Data Science; When Unstoppable Math meets Immovable Ethics

May 22, 2020 · Andrew Bolster

April  1

Is Your AI Ethical?

April 26, 2020 · Andrew Bolster

March  1

The Importance of Active Learning in Data Science and Engineering

March 4, 2020 · Andrew Bolster

February  2

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

February 18, 2020 · Andrew Bolster

Headless Pi Configuration with Multi-Wifi Remote Access

February 17, 2020 · Andrew Bolster

2019  3

November  1

Python Script as a Reliable Service

November 21, 2019 · Andrew Bolster

June  1

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

June 17, 2019 · Andrew Bolster

May  1

And Now I Am 31

May 17, 2019 · Andrew Bolster

2018  1

October  1

Daily Dated Untitled Jupyter Notebooks

October 22, 2018 · Andrew Bolster

2017  2

September  2

Legal Considerations for Trusted Defence Autonomy

September 28, 2017 · Andrew Bolster

Human Factors related to Trusted Operation of Autonomous Systems

September 21, 2017 · Andrew Bolster

2013  13

November  2

Remember Remember … November 1963?

November 22, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

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

November 1, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

October  1

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

October 23, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

July  2

SSH Persistence Redux: Multiple sites and Crontab Laziness

July 6, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

QUB Email Settings that Actually Work

July 2, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

June  1

So long and thanks for all the fish

June 20, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

May  2

Those who can…

May 28, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

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

May 3, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

April  2

Mercurial to Git transfer; problems, and pitfalls.

April 26, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

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

April 10, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

February  2

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

February 13, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

IT @ QUB are moving forward

February 11, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

“The Pitch”

January 22, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

2012  16

December  1

Happy New Year

December 31, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

October  1

Idiots Guide to Updating Nexus 7 to Latest ROM

October 11, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

September  2

4G and ‘The Northern Ireland Problem’

September 10, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

RMS is coming to town

September 5, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

July  2

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

July 29, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

The concept of Quality and my ‘mission’

July 20, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

June  4

Unattended upgrades in Ubuntu

June 13, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

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

June 12, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

LitReview: An Overview on Behaviour based methods for AUV Control

June 12, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

An exercise in academic writing

June 11, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

April  5

Turning Pcap dumps into Message Sequence Charts

April 30, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

NS-3 Click integration

April 30, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

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

April 10, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

Python + irclib for IRC Status Updates

April 10, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

Python + Oauth2 for Twitter Status Updates

April 10, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

My Guide To My Own Favourite Ubuntu Setup

January 5, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

2011  32

December  3

Ringing in the New Year by seeing out the old

December 31, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Guide to Persistent Reverse SSH Shells and Port Forwards

December 8, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Guide to Expanding Oracle Virtualbox Drives

December 8, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

October  5

Unicode Characters in Mendeley Bibliography Breaking Latex?

October 26, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

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

October 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Mendeley Repeated Citations in BibTeX Library

October 19, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Today’s Accomplishments: The 2.0 Generation

October 17, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Vim Latex Suite Install on Ubuntu

October 5, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

September  4

Through The Drinking Glass

September 29, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

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

September 29, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

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

September 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

PhD Diary: An Introduction and A Little Light Reading

September 15, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

August  2

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

August 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Best Description of Northern Ireland I’ve heard yet

August 4, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

July  3

The Road to Coreboot, Part the First: Introduction

July 28, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

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

July 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

GalepX Language settings in Linux

July 19, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

June  4

Replace Unity with AWN and Gnome-Do

June 28, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Removing BIOS RAID Metadata

June 25, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

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

June 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Change Kindle Network Provider

June 9, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

May  2

Accidentally Proper Kindle PDF Document Conversion

May 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

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

May 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

April  4

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

April 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

LU Decomposition in C (and under CUDA)

April 18, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

CUDA Compute 20 Error and other issues

April 14, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Why Belfast Needs a Hackerspace

April 7, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

March  1

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

March 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

February  2

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

February 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Bolsters Code-Related Rants (An ongoing collection)

February 12, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

January  2

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

January 23, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

Rant: Job Applications

January 8, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

2010  74

December  1

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

December 23, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

October  3

What the Hack?

October 23, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

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

October 23, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Hackathon

October 14, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

September  3

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

September 23, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Kindle 3G 3.0.2 Experience

September 21, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

News from the Belfast Hackerspace

September 7, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

August  2

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

August 23, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

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

August 4, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

July  4

Citrix Web Client with Ubuntu

July 24, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

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

July 23, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Belfast Hackerspace Anyone?

July 17, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Intel 4965: Poor wireless performance under Ubuntu

July 8, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

June  7

Great HOPEs

June 24, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 23/06/2010

June 23, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 16/06/2010

June 16, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Ongoing CUDA work, aka, I love this book.

June 14, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 09/06/2010

June 9, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 02/06/2010

June 2, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Customised User Directories in Ubuntu

June 1, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

May  7

Automagic Kernel Cleaning under Ubuntu

May 31, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 26/05/2010

May 26, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Coming Soon!

May 20, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 19/05/2010

May 19, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 12/05/2010

May 12, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 05/05/2010

May 5, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Ubuntu Boosting Blog Hits

May 4, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

April  13

SEE, Programming Abstractions, Assignment 1

April 28, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 28/04/2010

April 28, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Ads Outside the Box?

April 24, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 21/04/2010

April 21, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Add a Twitter @anywhere hovercard to links containing tweeps

April 17, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shaded Headers in Thematic

April 16, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 14/04/2010

April 14, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Facebook Group Library

April 13, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

US confirm status as ACTA transparancy stopping block

April 12, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Listing just dot-files

April 9, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

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

April 9, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 07/04/2010

April 7, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Mod_Rewrite in Apache2

April 1, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

March  19

4 Dimensional Game promises to be a mind-frak

March 31, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Kids Sing Portal “Still Alive”

March 31, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 31/03/2010

March 31, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Wordpress category page

March 31, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

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

March 26, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

My Experience with Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

March 24, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Entry 0

March 24, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 24/03/2010

March 24, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Chmod on lots of files

March 23, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 17/03/2010

March 17, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Installing and Configuring NS-3 on a Ubuntu System

March 14, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Mercurial Quick Start Cheatsheet

March 13, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Line Parsing Reminder (Duplicate removal)

March 12, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

GSOC or Having a go at Network Simulator

March 12, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

So what can you do with 32 Million Passwords…

March 10, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 10/03/2010

March 10, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 10/03/2010

March 10, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Any Port in a Storm

March 6, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 03/03/2010

March 3, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

February  7

(Would have been) An introduction to Google Adwords

February 26, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 24/02/2010

February 24, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 17/02/2010

February 17, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 10/02/2010

February 10, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shamed

February 3, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 03/02/2010

February 3, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 03/02/2010

February 3, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

January  8

Shared Items - 27/01/2010

January 27, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Online Media Marketing

January 25, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Ubuntu / Windows Sharing a Dropbox folder on NTFS

January 24, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 20/01/2010

January 20, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Are we on the brink of War?

January 17, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 13/01/2010

January 13, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 06/01/2010

January 6, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Application Idea: What do you think?

January 3, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

2009  21

December  1

New Years Resolutions

December 31, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

November  3

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

November 25, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Lenovo, not so rocking anymore

November 9, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Save The Internet

November 2, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

July  3

Delayed Post: How I Installed Windows 7 From USB HDD

July 13, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Delayed Post: LENOVO ROCKS

July 13, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

July 12, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

June  1

Change Of Plans…..

June 28, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

May  3

Scala-Euler Problem1

May 27, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Lenovo x61 Tablet Hard Drive (Near) Disaster

May 22, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Staggering Unproductivity

May 13, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

April  3

Linux foundation Video

April 14, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Work Thought Of The Day

April 7, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Set up and running of DNS tunnelling on MBWE

April 4, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

March  3

The Omleritto

March 29, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

On Education and Employability

March 3, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

New Productivity Mantra

March 1, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

February  3

Testing The Gnome Blog Panel Thingy

February 28, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Convergence

February 28, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Hacking Weekend

February 15, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

Big Move

January 3, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

2008  15

November  1

MBWE Fuel Gauge -> Speedometer conversion

November 6, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

October  3

My conkyrc

October 27, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Getting Skype to work with weird webcams.

October 25, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Links

October 6, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

September  2

Primers Coming Up

September 24, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Long Extended Break: Hardware Update

September 14, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

May  8

EEEpc note

May 24, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

EEE Update etc

May 13, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Another Uni Project

May 13, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

I want

May 13, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Asus EEEpc

May 12, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Folding Code

May 12, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Embedded C GPS Project

May 12, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Update

May 11, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

January  1

CES 2008

January 7, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

2007  2

December  2

Installation of VMWare Server (Windows)

December 16, 2007 · Andrew Bolster

Introduction

December 16, 2007 · Andrew Bolster