_{Jamie Balfour's}Articles

As a teacher of Computing, it's one of my goals to push everything I do to digital. This week I made another big step towards this goal.

I have now had COVID. But I'm now out on the other side and on the recovery side of it. I want to tell you just how savage this virus is.

The UK's TV License is an expensive yet very dated idea that needs to be looked at. In this article I take a look at the problems with the TV license as well as the difficulties that are faced with bringing in a replacement.

The world of computing processors is shifting. More and more users, particularly those building custom PCs such as myself, are moving away from Intel. As someone who has shares in both Intel and AMD, I am often faced with the difficult choice as to who to put more of my money into these days.

Homebridge is an awesome tool that makes it easy to connect non-HomeKit products to your Apple HomeKit powered smart home systems. I'm going to explain why it's so great in this article.

Something that has interested me since it's conception in around about 2006 was the concept of what is now known as the smart home - it's always been something I've dreamt about. 

In this post I am discussing how serial communication overtook parallel communication as the main method of communication in computer systems.

A look at 2010 to 2019 in my life, from highs to lows. This article is more for personal reasons than for others to read, but some of my friends might find it interesting.

The last decade had some amazing games, but also some truly awful ones. This is my top ten games of the last decade.

Some languages really have easy to read and write syntaxes, whereas others sacrifice this for structure. What about the combination of both?