Feb 18, 2019

Thanks @NASA for the chance to follow along with these adventures imgs.xkcd.com/comics/op…

Feb 12, 2019

I dare you to watch this and not jump around the room. Guitar, Drum and Bass, Series 1: 2. On Bass… Tina Weymouth!: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00023xl

Feb 3, 2019

A place to reflect #photo #2019

The late Jeremy Hardy

Feb 2, 2019

“I won’t suggest that you vote for the Socialist Alliance; I’ll just tell you that I’m voting for it, for some skittish reason of my own.” www.theguardian.com/politics/… That word ‘skittish’ exemplifies Jeremy Hardy’s material—ever likely to skeeter off from the ostensible topic into something more self-revelatory, coffee-spitting hilarious and skewering to the targets of his humour.

Jan 30, 2019

I just love posts like this twitter.com/thekatsmi… — insights into how others navigate their learning and work

Jan 18, 2019

…and, of course there’s an RSS feed for the new SvN daringfireball.net/linked/20…

Jan 4, 2019

Still impossibly cute. After all these years.

Jan 2, 2019

Walk. New year. #photo #2019

Dec 29, 2018

“people are all really the same: they respond well to kindness; they like to share what they have; they want to bequeath peace to their children” www.theguardian.com/commentis…

Dec 27, 2018

Christmas Day evening, once the cooking and eating was done, browsed this gift. Coincidentally, Apollo 13 was on TV and the AGCs featured (most in terms of the trepidation that having to switching them off to save power occasioned).

Dec 25, 2018

The sage was frosty this morning as I picked it to make stuffing for our meal. Happy Christmas and Holiday celebrations everyone!

Dec 23, 2018

Paper. #photo #2018

Dec 21, 2018

Brexit and technology: How network effects will damage UK IT industry - Ross Anderson

What would the world’s engineers think about moving to Britain after a high-profile vote for xenophobia?

Dec 20, 2018

Rock. #photo #2011

Dec 18, 2018

I think mum would have been fascinated that the Christmas tree lights are HomeKit-enabled. But equally, happy that as ever we have the star from a Nepal market in pride of place.

Tech assembled with: - Raspberry Pi Zero, Pimoroni blog post , Homebridge, a tiny Flask app

from flask import Flask

import explorerhat as eh

app = Flask(name)

@app(‘/on’) def on(): eh.motor.two.forwards(50) return ‘ON’

@app(‘/off’) def off(): eh.motor.two.forwards(0) return ‘OFF’

@app(‘/brightness/’) def brightness(level): eh.motor.two.forwards(int(level) / 2) return ‘Level %s’ % level