I Built a Live ML Predictions Dashboard for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Kemal The World Cup is finally here, and instead of just watching, I wanted to see how well a statistical model could keep up with the tournament in real time. So…
Remove Background Noise from Video Without Re-encoding: An Audio-Only Approach with DeepFilterNet3
A Python CLI tool that strips background noise from any video file using ML denoisers — while copying the video stream byte-for-byte. A 6 GB 4K file processes in minutes…
I Built a Single-Cell RNA-seq Pipeline That Writes Its Own Report
Single-cell RNA sequencing is one of those techniques that generates a huge amount of data and then demands a huge amount of effort to interpret it. You run the sequencer,…
Cracker Blaster: a little block puzzle I built for my daughter
A small, cracker-themed block puzzle I cloned and polished for my four-year-old — built in plain vanilla JavaScript with synthesised audio, a Three.js bloom backdrop, and a deliberately forgiving combo…
From Lab Bench to Browser: A Hybrid Digital Twin for CHO Cell Culture
I rebuilt two published CHO cell-culture papers — a hybrid ODE + machine-learning growth model, and a genome-scale metabolic reduction pipeline — as an interactive digital twin that runs in…
The Ovalbumin Patent Fight and What It Tells Us About Where Precision Fermentation Is Going
The Every Company and Onego Bio are now fighting over recombinant ovalbumin in courts on two continents. The way this case resolves will shape how broadly IP rights can be…
Living with a Mechanical Mitral Valve and Warfarin: The Diet, the Biochemistry, and What Nobody Tells You Until It’s Too Late
What I wish someone had handed me on discharge day: the biochemistry of warfarin and vitamin K, the food atlas, the drug and herbal interactions, travel, and the daily operating…
CellSeg v0.1.0 is out
Three months ago I started building an Android app to count cells. Today the first public build is up, and I’d like to introduce it properly. It’s called CellSeg, and…
The Night My Heart Stopped Being Just an Organ
I had severe mitral regurgitation and a blocked coronary artery. On 22 April 2026, surgeons at Royal Papworth replaced my mitral valve with a mechanical prosthesis and bypassed the blocked…
The bench problem that wouldn’t go away
There’s a thing that happens in a tissue culture lab that I’ve never quite gotten used to, even after years of doing it. You pull a sample from a flask…