Nick Charlton

There is nothing more annoying than seeing, or ending up sharing URLs that look like this (it’s split so it doesn’t look completely terrible…): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/ \ im-thinking-please-be-quiet.html?

I just released moviesapi.

The other day, I tweeted a link to a regex-based mute filter for Tweetbot.

And so, sadly, that is the end of Young Rewired State for another year.

Gedeon Maheux talks about iOS 7 and new versions of apps: “Taking full advantage of new APIs, designing new interactions and more can represent a healthy investment, time is money after all.

Writing on the Macminicolo blog: “you could have purchased an original G4 Mac mini for $500, used it as a server for 8 years, and sold it today for $100” This is nuts.

This week has been Young Rewired State week.

For the past 18 months, I’ve been meaning to review the way I go about doing backups.

In doing some client work recently, I noticed that Ubuntu now has a dynamically generated MOTD (Message of the Day) — the message shown on login, through SSH or locally.

Jim Bird pulls apart some of the bits of Agile.

This interview with Greg Brockman of Stripe is quite interesting..

Graham Lee talks about the way the app market has ended up going.

Something I’ve not seen anyone comment on is the reasoning behind why Apple have put off Multiple Displays — like the way Mavericks implements them — for so long.

Anne Hollowday put together this fantastic series about members of the Society for Model and Experimental Engineers.

A few weeks back now, I worked on a project for iDAT.

Much to my chagrin about Medium in general, there’s been some nice posts recently.

Watts Martin talks about the “default narrative” which pervades journalism.

Adam Keys on Live Music.

The essayist George Zarkadakis writes about love and AI.

Tom Morris talks about writing about yourself on your blog.

Bill Wasik writes something about IoT over on Wired..

Nate Seidle of SparkFun talks about their upcoming building.

A 3D printed lens mounting for a WW2 slightly-radioactive bomber lens.

Last weekend was Maker Faire UK, up in Newcastle.

A few weekends ago was the second NASA Space Apps Challenge, a hack day centred around building stuff related to space and worldwide collaboration.

But She’s a Girl talks about Douglas Adams, endangered species and, er, scripting.

Paul Miller writes about his return to the internet.

And so, my final year project was handed in.

Alan Winfield presents a short paper on the likelihood of a pending AI winter.

Doug Stephen talks about Expectations, and a few other things.

I recently completed a project for an assignment which had a mess of dependencies.

Ross Andersen talks about the future of humanity, touching on human extinction.

Rafe Colburn talks about the extra work that is required to take a simple project and push it into production.

In which I document some changes I made around here… To start with, I’ve adjusted the leading, measure and font size to make it a little easier to read.

Seth Brown applies statistics and some Python to beer selection.

For the past few days, I’ve been working with Matplotlib and collecting together a bunch of notes on animation.

As well a being the best Python package for drawing plots, Matplotlib also has impressive primitive drawing capablities.

Yesterday was Digpen VI, down at the Eden Project in Cornwall.

For a project several weeks in the making, I’ve just pushed up the changes to this, my site.

On Monday, it was NSConf Mini: “Developers vs.

Yesterday was dConstruct.

Last week, I had the privilege of helping mentor seven young people as part of Young Rewired State in Plymouth, and then at the weekend up in Birmingham for the Festival of Code.

And, so, that is the end of my placement.

This morning, Rafe posted about the stuff he’d like to be learning.

Two weekends ago, I was in Slapton at the Field Studies Council for their first hack day.

Two weekends ago I was at the Met Office for the NASA International Space Apps Challenge.

On Saturday, I was at the Open Rights Group Conference at the University of Westminster in London.

On Saturday, Chris Hunt and I gave a workshop on Git at Digpen IV in Exeter.

I started this just after the Path fiasco.

With the recent Path debacle, the security and privacy practices of various mobile application developers has come to light.