Blog — Page 13
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.
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.
I started using Last.fm back in 2006, in the final months of my time at University, and have carried on using it up until a few months ago, despite coming to the conclusion that I should stop back in 2011. Although the social media narcissism of “everyone must know what...
There are a whole host of decisions involved with starting a new software project. What’s my target audience? What language shall I write it in? Which libraries shall I use? And of course, “What shall I call it?” So picking a name for an open-source project or tool is IMPOSSIBLE...
This morning I tweeted my annoyance with Facebook’s privacy model, and since that provoked some (albeit minor) reaction, I thought I’d follow it up with a better explanation of what I’m on about. Have you ever used a third-party app to access Facebook – such as TweetDeck, FriendCaster or my...
It’s no secret that, since the launch of version 2.0 back in July of 2011, my SuccessWhale social network client has stagnated somewhat. It had reached that point at which it did everything that I needed it to do, and so my enthusiasm for updating it kind of disappeared. SuccessWhale...
Today, Google announced that its popular RSS reader, Google Reader, would be retired. This has provoked an outcry from certain corners of the internet, as GReader was a well-loved product. In many ways it was – and still is – the gold standard of RSS readers. It was massively more...
It should have been obvious when TweetDeck was acquired by Twitter back in 2011 that it wasn’t long for this world. Even more so when the only significant update in the intervening period was to remove a feature (handling tweets over 140 characters). Although Twitter started out by enthusiastically embracing...
Today’s tech news is awash with Human Rights Watch’s latest campaign, the sensationally-titled “Ban ‘Killer Robots’ Before It’s Too Late”. I’m not sure which I find most irritating about it: The fact that they’ve chosen to lead with a photo of a Taranis UAV, even though in the photo caption...
I love the way the BBC tries to make everything so relateable to everyday human experience. Case in point: this article about a new technique for measuring the mass of supermassive black holes. In order to convey just how heavy these things are, the caption on their first picture relates...
My quest for an Android game to match the joyous beat-synched twitch reflexes of Audiosurf have very nearly come to an end. My newest drug is named Beat Hazard Ultra. (Android, iOS) It’s angling towards being a bullet hell music game, and it almost – but not quite – succeeds...
First of all, a big shout out to les hommes et femmes at http://korben.info/, who today have taught me an important lesson. At about 9:30 today, they posted a list of 50 things to do with your Raspberry Pi, which included the Raspberry Tank. At about 9:40, my web server...