Si Beaumont

I’ll keep this short and sweet. I’ve recently started working for a company that prohibits personal blogging. It’s been a fun ride and should things...

Recently I blogged about how we’ve been using ocaml-ctypes to generate type-safe bindings to some C libraries that we want to use within our OCaml...

There’s sometimes you just don’t want to reinvent the wheel. Working day-to-day in OCaml, you start to enjoy the fruits of a statically, strongly typed...

It’s been a few months now, and our information radiator for our team is humming along nicely. It was fun putting it all together and...

Like woolly socks for your brain, learn how to build an dashboard to capture and visualise the metrics you care about with InfluxDB and Grafana.

With the advent of Travis-ci it has never been easier to setup continuous integration for your Github project. Just sign in to Travis with your...

Searching (and tab-completion) of all email addresses (via ldapsearch) Viewing Exchange calendar invitations Showing unread email count in your tmux status line I lasted longer...

Following the recent announcement of XenServer’s upcoming virtual GPU support, we thought it might be nice to share some of the internals that make it...

I haven’t really ever blogged about my work but that all might change beacause this week saw the announcement that one of the best virtualisation...

So a while ago I built an overdrive guitar pedal. Here’s what it looked like: Pretty uninspiring, no? Well yeah, that it is hand-drawn with...

Well thus ends my final Michaelmas term. I think that in future years I may come to miss October’s sudden onslaught of Freshers’ Flu but not...

Over these last few weeks I’ve really started getting into Git. Everyone has their favourite VCS but for me, what I’ve seen of Git so...

Happy with the way this has turned out; take a listen! Recorded and mixed by Rich Harris @ Alchemea. Musicians: Stephen Fargher (Guitar & Vocals);...

Singer/songwriter Charlie Perkin’s great song Sober. Recorded and mixed by Rich Harris @ Alchemea. Musicians: Stephen Fargher (Acoustic); Josh Campbell (Drums); Si Beaumont (me) (Bass);...

So I recently decided I’d try my hand at building my own guitar pedal. It went pretty well and I’m really impressed with it. It...