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It’s the end of February, and that means only one thing. Its HackSussex time! This year Jessica Long, Matthew Flowers and I, decided to tackle London Gatwick’s challenge ‘Make gate waiting fun, relaxing and profitable’. We decided to make a crazy-taxi style game in which you boarding bus around the airfield in Gatwick, without crashing into anything! Additionally, the higher score you get, the better boarding group you can achieve, and you are directly competing LIVE against your other passengers! ...

Another University Reading Week has come and gone, so that means another Hackathon! This time, Jessica Long, Tom Arnett, Oskar Riches and I shifted our focus, creating a game rather than a traditional software project. The constraints were clear: it had to be a game played entirely on a single screen. We decided to build a multiplayer Geometry Dash-esque game controlled using phone motion controls! I focused on the backend, architecting a Python FastAPI service. I utilised WebSockets for robust, low-latency, two-way communication between players and the orchestration server handling sessions and dataflow. ...

Building a robust and scalable network in Azure for a small organisaion can be a challenge, especially when aiming to utilise Azure’s native capabilities and move away from third-party tools like Tailscale. I’m trying to develop an Azure environment that would mimic what would be deployed into a small organisation. I’ve started attempting this journey previously, but haven’t executed the best solution to this. I’ve had a few VMs in a single Virtual Network, with no subnetting, and utilising Tailscale as my main form of networking between VMs, as I have a few VMs as a part of my own home Lab. ...