Passing Curiosity


I registered the domain Passing Curiosity with the intention that it become a productive outlet for my rather short attention span. Rather than waste man-years clicking “Open Link in New Tab” on Wikipedia, I would make that time productive by summarising what I read. Dead time, no more!

Alas, I got distracted. Nearly three years have passed and Passing Curiosity is still just a neglected blog. Over the years I’ve maintained a few and almost everything I posted to any of them can be found here.

The most recent posts are:

May 2, 2013

Sydney Python User Group, May 2013

The May meeting of the Sydney Python user group had talks about Python on the Raspberry-Pi, the pandas library, R, and gstreamer.

April 24, 2013

FP-Syd, April 2013

The April 2013 meeting of the FP-Syd group had presentations about GPU programming with Accelerate and little languages using the Free data structure.

April 24, 2013

AWS Summit, Sydney

My thoughts on the Amazon Web Services Summit 2013 in Sydney.

March 21, 2013

Sydney Drupal Meetup, March 2013

My first Drupal meetup since moving to Sydney.

September 16, 2012

Injection avoidance in Haskell

A proof of concept technique for writing injection-proof APIs in Haskell.

August 19, 2012

PyconAU 2012: Server performance

Notes from a talk about server performance at Pycon AU 2012.

August 19, 2012

PyconAU 2012: No, Bad Pony!

Notes from a talk about Django feature requests and why they don’t get implemented at Pycon AU 2012.

August 19, 2012

PyconAU 2012: Message queueing

Notes from a talk about message queue solutions at Pycon AU 2012.

August 19, 2012

PyconAU 2012: Django Testing

Notes from a talk about testing Django solutions at Pycon AU 2012.

August 19, 2012

PyconAU 2012: Continuous Deployment

Notes from a talk about continuous deployment at Pycon AU 2012.

The rest, you can find in the archives.