Category Archives: Personal

I turned a Raspberry Pi into a tiny weather intelligence powerhouse

By | August 16, 2026

A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W paired with a Sense HAT V2 runs a fully self-contained, edge-native machine learning weather station with no cloud, GPU, or heavy ML frameworks. The system uses pure NumPy implementations of Recursive Least Squares, Kalman filtering, conformal prediction, and drift detection, staying under 150 MB RAM. The station continuously updates… Read More: I turned a Raspberry Pi into a tiny weather intelligence… »

Cracker Blaster: a little block puzzle I built for my daughter

By | June 4, 2026

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 system. Free to play, open source on GitHub.

Living with a Mechanical Mitral Valve and Warfarin: The Diet, the Biochemistry, and What Nobody Tells You Until It’s Too Late

By | May 15, 2026

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 procedure of life on warfarin with a mechanical mitral valve. Written engineer-to-engineer.

The Night My Heart Stopped Being Just an Organ

By | May 8, 2026

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 artery. This is what happened before, during, and after — medically and emotionally.