Blog — Page 10

These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.

The End of the Road for SuccessWhale's Facebook Support?

Written on Saturday 7 Mar 2015

My SuccessWhale application has long supported both Twitter and Facebook social networks, despite both networks’ relatively developer-hostile stances. The worst offender by far was Twitter, with it’s 100,000 user limit that has deliberately crippled many third-party clients in order to drive users to the official website and app, which make...

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Fun with Playbulb

Written on Saturday 14 Feb 2015

Playbulbs are colour LED lights sold by a company called Mipow. They come with an iOS and Android app that can set their colour and various patterns via Bluetooth. There’s no security on them whatsoever, so any nearby device can connect and change their colour. That seems pretty bad —...

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IKEA Navigational Cheats

Written on Friday 13 Feb 2015

It was suggested on IRC last night that the sad, cautionary tale of Sultan Hamnvik may have its roots in my simple lack of knowledge — particularly of the “cheats” that allow for easier navigation around IKEA’s torturous, non-Euclidean shop floors. I’d like to take this opportunity to refute that...

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All-Terrain Raspberry Pi!

Written on Monday 26 Jan 2015

Another year, another childrens’ toy with a Raspberry Pi needlessly attached to it. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been taking an old broken RC toy and turning it into something a bit more fun — by strapping a computer to it, naturally. The result is the “All-Terrain Pi”, a...

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Another Year Gone By

Written on Wednesday 31 Dec 2014

Lights flicker and fade, drawing the year to a close. Outside, the weather is warming and slowly burning the frost away; a tiny ripple before the wave of heat to come, before it is summer again. 2014 has been a year of travel, with three trips abroad setting a new...

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Faded Dreams in Winter

Written on Tuesday 23 Dec 2014

Like many, I came of age with a head full of dreams about what my adult life would be like. I thought maybe I’d live in a big old cottage, raise my children in a little village by the sea, have a wood fire burning through the winter and I’d...

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All I Want for Christmas

Written on Monday 15 Dec 2014

As December gets into full swing, one of the joyous seasonal activities that must be undertaken is the ritual filling of my Amazon wishlist with a bunch of crap I don’t need. This is all to help those stubborn relatives who can’t bring themselves to believe I’m telling the truth...

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Touchdown, Half a Billion Miles Away

Written on Wednesday 12 Nov 2014

On March 2nd 2004, without great fanfare, an Ariane 5 rocket blasted off into orbit carrying a payload designed by the European Space Agency to investigate a nearby comet. Its name was Rosetta, and it set off on one of the most complex gravitational trick-shots we have ever attempted. Ten...

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Gathering Dusk

Written on Friday 31 Oct 2014

Dusk falls across Dorset, darkening the fields from Christchurch in the east, past me, way past me out to Lyme Regis in the west. My week is done, and with it October, and with it the harvest and the last of the warmth that summer left behind. The night will...

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On GamerGate

Written on Saturday 18 Oct 2014

Dear GamerGate supporters, trolls, flamers and everyone associated: Here is a pale blue dot. Really, it’s the pale blue dot. To abuse the words of Carl Sagan: That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. That’s you, everyone you have ever loved, and everyone you’ve ever hated. It’s every videogame player, creator...

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