flurries of latent creativity

Last year, Ivan Wise interviewed me for his Better Known podcast, where each guest names six things they think should be better known.

More than a decade ago I had a Psion 5mx.

When I was a kid, the apocryphal!

I’ve been using dokku to host the majority of my personal projects for the last few years.

Wonderful spicy persian/gujarati stew.

This is my current method, it’s approx the proving steps from DO/Sourdough and the baking steps from Tartine Bread.

sundial.singleton.io - Laser cut a sundial customized for your very own corner of planet earth 🌍.

Delicious, cozy meatball dish.

I’m a Software person, I spend 80+% of my waking hours in front of some kind of computing device.

This recipe is apparently unique to Northern Ireland and uses soup/herb celery which is hard to find outside the area, but regular table celery can be substituted (including the leaves).

Delicious melt in the mouth lamb dish.

On 24th Apr, my birthday!

Recently I read this old WIRED article linked on a dicussion forum.

Some guacamole recipes call for many ingredients and can be a pain to prepare.

The mother of all chilis.

Things have been kindof busy lately but I’ve been on-again / off-again working on a little project to wirelessly track the temperature, light level and soil moisture of my bonsai tree, so I can track its progress and know when to water (and more important…

I’m working on a project (more soon!)

I’m excited to introduce you to a project I have been working on for a few weeks in my spare time: PiUi.

You just made a funky neon sign flash in my living room.

A few weeks ago, I found this beautiful video on Youtube – a timelapse video of stars and the Milky Way.

Here's a quick and easy first project for new [Raspberry Pi](http://www.raspberrypi.org/) owners - turn your Pi into a webcam, and learn about Linux's ability to run repeated tasks at scheduled intervals with the `cron` utility.

The awesome folks over at devslovebacon have made my talk available on youtube.

Paul Graham’s latest essay - How to get startup ideas - is a great read.

I’ve recently been messing around with the XML dumps of Wikipedia.

I was extremely fortunate to get access to a Raspberry Pi alpha board for the past couple of weeks.

Peter Burns wrote a great post earlier last week about timescales as they might be “perceived” by a computer’s CPU… “your CPU lives by the nanosecond” [and humans live by the second].

Recently, I have been refreshing my knowledge of Machine Learning by taking Andrew Ng’s excellent Stanford Machine Learning course online.

<p> <a href="https://github.com/dps/unhumanize">https://github.com/dps/unhumanize</a> </div>

In 2011, Smartphones are ubiquitous and everyone and his dog is writing mobile apps, but using apps when you're not in range of a fixed wifi hotspot or standing still in an urban area is often extremely frustrating.

This graph shows the result of my weekend project - it's the temperature in my living room, logged to an app running on Google Appengine every 30s via an Arduino UNO with ethernet shield.

I spent the weekend learning how to hack hardware with Arduino - I built this mouse controlled RC car.

On my latest trip to San Francisco, I was privileged to be able to drop in to the DODOcase factory and got a guided tour from chief DODO - Patrick.

I love reading on my Kindle, but as anyone who has been using one for a while knows, it feels too delicate to drop straight into a bag and really needs a case.

I spent some time at the weekend getting my iPhone Chess game up on Amazon EC2.

Since joining twitter, I haven’t written a single blog post - my old blog became defunct and is now available only via the magic of archive.org’s wayback machine.