Hello

I’m Colin. I write lots of software, and I’m based in the United Kingdom.

I like building software that is scalable, and resilient. I love applications that run fast, but can fail gracefully.

You can also find me on Twitter, Github, Gitlab, and LinkedIn.

Blog

• 2018-05-16Hakyll Live Reload
• 2018-04-09Python, Docker, and FFmpeg to convert H.264 to MP4
• 2018-03-04Higher Kinded Play Framework
• 2017-12-05TL;DR Neural Network Dynamics for Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning with Model-Free Fine-Tuning
• 2017-12-01Functional Programming with the Play Framework
• 2017-07-17Moving to Hakyll
• 2017-01-02DynamoDB with Scala Macros
• 2016-12-16Getting Started with Haskell’s Warp
• 2016-06-28Learning Akka Streams
• 2016-06-15The Virtues of Side Projects
• 2016-01-01Using Elm in Octopress
• 2015-06-23Using Play-Framework’s PathBindable
• 2015-03-02Cassandra TTL Is Per Column
• 2015-02-02ScalaTest and Twitter Futures
• 2015-01-20Mock Responses and Iterate
• 2014-12-31#Code2014
• 2014-10-02Monoids
• 2014-07-16Aggregation Services in Node.js
• 2014-03-26Aggregation Services using Play JSON
• 2013-10-30Fibonacci Numbers in Scala
• 2013-08-24Akka Camel and ActiveMQ
• 2013-07-20Testing in Scala with DSLs
• 2013-05-27Better Assertions with ScalaTest
• 2012-12-17Using MongoDB TTL Collections to Manage User Registrations
• 2010-10-31How to JUnit Test a Private Method