Cameron

Dias-Doyle

Hi, I'm Cameron, and I'm a software engineer living in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Mystery Date Nights

01 December 2016 - 7 min read

Recently, I realised that I hadn’t developed anything major outside of work for a while - since this blog or website a year or so ago. Wanting to change that, I dived into the extremely intimidating and fast-moving world of JavaScript frameworks, and started learning Angular 2.

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AeroPress

14 November 2016 - 10 min read

For the last two years, my daily morning coffee routine hasn’t changed at all, at least during the working week. My routine is so ingrained I could probably do it in my sleep, and uses just three items; my coffee mug, my Hario Skerton hand grinder, and of course, my AeroPress.

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Everyday Carry

10 November 2016 - 4 min read

When I was in middle school, like a lot of kids at the time, I had about a dozen keyrings on my keys. Or rather, key, singular. Maybe it’s just part of the ritual of being entrusted with the Front Door Key for the first time that makes you feel the need to carry half a kilo of plastic along with the single, lonely key, lest you forget and leave it somewhere.

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Bokeh

31 October 2016 - 3 min read

For as long as I can remember, I’ve worn contact lenses on a daily basis, to the point I sometimes forget what my vision is actually like without assistance. In the wild, I’d have been killed off long ago by a predator I couldn’t see coming.

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Submodules and Subtrees

19 October 2016 - 7 min read

You may have noticed a new addition to the blog recently; a slide-out menu on the left hand side, linking to the other subdomains. For the last few months, I’ve been thinking of ways to restructure my website, to integrate the blog back into my main homepage, as well as incorporate other subdomains as I develop them. This menu was the answer I came up with.

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