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Dotty 11 October 2021

A few years ago I was in the position of needing a solution to backup and sync dotfiles (configuration files for various pieces of software) across my machines. Specifically, I had Mac computers and Linux servers, and needed a way to nicely keep these files up-to-date between them. For example, I … Read more (2 minute read)
100daystooffload technology project

SSO Tools 2 September 2021

Another project I try to maintain (when I can!) is SSO Tools. This is a simple web service that aims to help developers test their own services’ single sign-on (SSO) functionality. The motivation behind the project was that many commmercial offerings were too expensive for solo developers, or … Read more (1 minute read)
100daystooffload technology project

Treadl 13 August 2021

I don’t tend to talk much about the projects I’m working on, but thought this would be a good opportunity to write a post about one such project - Treadl. Treadl is a web app (and more recently and less popularly a mobile app too). It enables weavers to create and store their weaving … Read more (2 minute read)
100daystooffload technology project

Capsule.Town 27 July 2021

The Gemini protocol has gathered even more momentum in the few months since I last posted about it. Its popularity is largely driven by its privacy-focused and content-oriented design. It doesn’t allow for bloated sites or resource-hungry client-side scripting. It’s a means for simply … Read more (2 minute read)
100daystooffload technology gemini project

Hue: Security Lights 18 August 2017

A previous note about Philips Hue bulbs got me thinking that the API exposed by the bridge might be used to warn if the house lights are left on too late at night, or even if they get turned on at unexpected times - potentially for security. I put together a simple program that periodically checks … Read more (1 minute read)
hue iot project technology

Alexa, ask Sherlock... 19 July 2017

I have recently posted about CENode and how it might be used in IoT systems. Since CENode is partially designed to communicate directly with humans (particularly those out and about or “in the field”) it makes sense for inputs and queries to be provided via voice in addition to or … Read more (4 minute read)
cenode alexa iot project

CENode in IoT 26 June 2017

In a previous note I discussed CENode and briefly mentioned its potential for use in interacting with the Internet of Things. I thought I’d add a practical example of how it might be used for this and for ’tasking’ other systems. I have a few Philips Hue bulbs at home, and the Hue … Read more (3 minute read)
cenode iot hue project

Android: Consuming Nintendo Hotspot Data 27 May 2015

I recently blogged about Nintendo Hotspot data and mentioned it could be more usefully consumable in a native mobile app. As such, I wrote a small Android app for retrieving this data and displaying it on a Google Map. The app shows nearby hotspots, allows users to also search for other non-local … Read more (1 minute read)
android nintendo project technology

CasaStream 14 September 2013

In my last post I discussed methods for streaming music to different zones in the house. More specifically I wanted to be able to play music from one location and then listen to it in other rooms at the same time and in sync. After researching various methods, I decided to go with using a compressed … Read more (3 minute read)
project linux technology

Magic Seaweed's Awesome New API 3 July 2013

Back in March, I emailed Magic Seaweed to ask them if they had a public API for their surf forecast data. They responded that they didn’t at the time, but that it was certainly on their to-do list. I am interested in the marine data for my Gower Tides application. Yesterday, I visited their … Read more (2 minute read)
project android technology

WekaPy 12 June 2013

Over the last few months, I’ve started to use Weka more and more. Weka is a toolkit, written in Java, that I use to create models with which to make classifications on data sets. It features a wide variety of different machine learning algorithms (although I’ve used the logistic … Read more (2 minute read)
weka python machinelearning project technology

Gower Tides Open-Sourced 26 May 2013

This is just a quick post to mention that I have made the source for the Gower Tides app on Google Play public. The source repository is available on GitHub. From the repository I have excluded: Images & icons - It is not my place to distribute graphics not owned or created by me. Authors are … Read more (1 minute read)
android project technology

eartub.es 25 April 2013

Last weekend I went to CFHack Open Sauce Hackathon. I worked in a team with Chris, Ross and Matt. We started work on eartub.es, which is a web application for suggesting movies based on their sound tracks. We had several ideas for requirements we wanted to meet but, due to the nature of hackathons, … Read more (2 minute read)
event project cardiffuniversity

Gower Tides App Released 7 March 2013

A few posts back, I talked about the development of an Android app for tide predictions for South Wales. This app is now on Google Play. If you live in South Wales and are vaguely interested in tides/weather, then you should probably download it :) The main advantage is that the app does not need … Read more (1 minute read)
android project technology

ScriptSlide 18 February 2013

I’ve taken to writing most of my recent presentations in plain HTML (rather than using third-party software or services). I used JavaScript to handle the appearance and ordering of slides. I bundled the JS into a single script, js/scriptslide.js which can be configured using the js/config.js … Read more (1 minute read)
javascript project technology

Delving into Android 13 November 2012

I’ve always been interested in the development of smartphone apps, but have never really had the opportunity to actually hava a go. Whilst I’m generally OK with development on platforms I feel comfortable with, I’ve always considered there to be no point in developing applications … Read more (3 minute read)
android project technology