AlmostObsolete.net

I'm Tom, I'm a freelance programmer from Brighton in the UK. I sometimes post as almost on places like Hacker News. And this isn't a blog, it's a website!

I'm available to do development projects. I usually work in Python (sometimes with Django) and Javascript (in the browser and on the server with Node.JS. Get in touch at tom@almostobsolete.net!

• 2011-11-26 Sat I've written an article about a technique for doing Declarative Models in CoffeeScript
• 2011-11-07 Mon Skiff Hack: I'm organising a hack day for The Skiff (the coworking place I work from) soon. Come help us write some apps to make The Skiff even more awesome!
• 2011-11-05 Sat My PATCH patch for Node.JS (support for the HTTP PATCH verb) is in 0.0.6 released today!
• 2011-10-28 Sun I've released a JSONPatch implementation for (Node.JS and Browser) Javascript (thanks to Dharmafly and Netdev!)

I code mainly in Python but I do enjoy a bit of Haskell. I've written quite a lot of other languages and like a fair few of them for different reasons and for different uses. A few bits and pieces of code I've written are on my GitHub page. I keep meaning to release more stuff—I have a mountain of elisp code for example—but usually it just languishes on my hard drive.

I sometimes help out on electronics and programming bits for Felix's Machines which is a lot of fun, the machines are very cool and you should check them out.

I live in Emacs :)

• 2010-06-29 Tue A day page for Org-Mode

I'm trying to note down things that were a pain to do or to figure out here so that Google can find them.

• Print from a University of Sussex printer from Eduroam using Ubuntu
• Installing OpenCV from Source (Subversion) with Python Support on Ubuntu
• Switch square and normal brackets with xmodmap
• Get rid of the Reset button in forms on Chrome and Firefox
• Using Rope or Ropemacs with Python Virtualenv

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