Creating

Creating presentations with markdown and generative AI

Creating presentations in Markdown means that it’s easy to use generative AI to modify them

Pixel perfect layouts for HDTV resolution slides

After much experimentation I discovered these to be the perfect size for my grid:

The perfect presentation recording

I have been doing regular presentations in my meetup groups for over ten years. I also do presentations for clients. It would be good to have a record of them. I have tried…

Creating slides with D3

I create a lot of presentations, and have been doing so for years. Over time, I have refined my methods for creating them. Currently I write the presentation in a single…

Choosing core tools to create charts and diagrams

D3 is a powerful tool for creating bespoke charts and diagrams, with a steep learning curve.

Bear helper

Bear Helper, an easy-to-customize macOS menubar helper for the Bear app, written in Python

Creating a website with Bear app

Creating a website with the Bear App is wonderfully simple

Extracting events data from Wikipedia into an SQL table using ChatGPT

I am using a denormalized, wide tables data structure because this makes it much easier to transfer the data between ChatGPT and a database. (BigQuery uses denormalized…

What is the perfect layout in the age of screens?

This was my first attempt to make a perfect layout for HDTV screens. I think it works pretty well.

William Blake timeline — an information visualization experiment

I created a visual timeline of William Blake’s life

Making neat notes whilst standing up

I like to take neat notes. Taking neat notes whilst standing up on a train commute is difficult, but not impossible.

The Medici family tree

I created a family tree of the Medici family, to improve on the amount of information given by traditional family trees.