Mr Coles Peter Coles’ blog

A chance encounter seeing a lecture from a chess GM in Washington Square Park. read full post…

A CSS trick that uses white-space nowrap to prevent a single word at the final line of a paragraph. read full post…

Some brief thoughts on how to avoid overthinking cooking and how my software engineering background might have been part of that problem. read full post…

A helper function in Python for escaping variables in formulas when calling the Airtable API. read full post…

Sometimes when you’re given a Google Sheets file from another person, it’s unclear which cells are meant to be inputs and which aren’t without clicking around and inspecting the sheet. Here’s a trick to expose likely inputs by using conditional formatting. read full post…