Mr Coles Peter Coles’ blog

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…

A quick look into the Stripe API with the Subscription status enum, and how to understand the differences between the values. read full post…

A quick look at why I think FOIL is an unhelpful trick taught in early math education and how understanding the distributive property gives a deeper understanding and stronger tools for students to think about numbers. read full post…