Ohai

• I'm an bitslinger/engineer working on the BIDI (BBC Internet Distribution Infrastructure) content delivery network for the BBC.
  • If you're curious about BIDI, my colleague has a great UKNOF talk about BIDI.
• I'm interested in hardware, HTTP, SMTP, video encoding and optimising to oblivion.
• I mostly write Python, but also write Lua, C, and Java for my job.
• I live in nginx/OpenResty configs.
• I occasionally write stuff @ kura.gg
• I have written a bunch of themes and plugins for the Pelican static site generator, including;
  • Themes
    • Eevee (repo)
    • Hauntr (repo)
    • Ghastly (repo)
  • Plugins
    • Lightbox (repo)
    • Pelican YouTube (repo)
    • Pelican Vimeo (repo)
    • Pelican GitHub Projects (repo)
    • Pelican FontAwesome (repo)
• I have also contributed a few features to the opensource, file-based markdown wiki wikmd include;
  • The caching layer
  • Search powered by the pure-Python Whoosh search library
• I have written a simple Firefox Relay-like system using AWS SES, Lambda & DynamoDB.
• I have also written some tools for reading data from TP-Link Tapo P110 smart plugs for ingesting via Telegraf.

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