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Some more photos from the rest of the summer this year.

Some pictures I took last month.

Over the last couple of months I've been working on a new version of PageTurn.

This year especially, I’ve found myself committing a sin I so often warn against.

Turn pages, a bit at a time.

Exactly one year ago, I got solar panels installed on my house.

A couple of years ago I wrote this post, wherein I detail how I built a working version of the tape dispenser from Father Ted (the one that says you have used two inches of sticky tape, god bless you).

PageTurn 2.0 was released a few weeks ago, but of course by the time I got around to writing about it I've actually released version 2.1.

BuildWatcher is a very simple, scriptable, status-monitoring tool.

I've added some long-needed features to PageTurn in this update.

It’s that time again; there are new AirPods and I’ve been measuring their latency.

Just what everyone needed - another Wordle spinoff.

About eight years ago I had a notion that I wanted to build a real, working version of the sellotape dispenser from Father Ted.

I've just released a new version of my app PageTurn.

My new SwiftUI app, Acacia Some context I’ve just released Acacia, my first SwiftUI app.

I've been building an app using both SwiftUI and Core Data for the first time.

When starting out with a new hobby, I like coming to milestones and looking back on my progress.

As per its introductory paragraph, I often find myself wondering when watching movies, particularly old ones, how many of these people are still alive?

Update 3: More tweaks Since the age ranges for which vaccinations are approved in Ireland continues to drop, I've decided to switch the bot to use the whole population again (4,977,400 according to the CSO).

Time wasted today because of typing request.onReadyStateChange instead of request.onreadystatechange: a few hours more than I'd like to admit.

I don't tweet often (I think about 5,000 times in the past 12 years), but I was very much a Twitter completionist.

I started running in April, during (the first) lockdown.

The fifth service of the Divine Office, usually performed at noon.

I've gotten hooked on a fantastic YouTube channel and podcast recently, called Fall of Civilizations.

Taylor Swift's new album is excellent.

The entire tab experience of Xcode 12 is perhaps the most infuriatingly unintuitive software experience I've ever had.

None.

There's a complete fiasco currently underway regarding A-level results in the UK.

A dedicated camera button on, say, the next iPhone, would be amazing.

Since my early teens I've had a pretty thought-out idea of what deserves a spot in my pockets each day.

A couple more improvisations from today.

Tonight I saw Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back in a cinema for the first time.

I'd on occasion wondered why the German plan to invade Russia during the Second World War was codenamed Operation Barbarossa.

Stunning video.

A couple of lines from Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond have been in my head for the past few days, due in equal parts to their subject matter and their harmonic content.

These are a few piano improvisations I did earlier today.

I recently saw this picture of the cast of Cheers from 1982, and was shocked at the age of some of the cast.

Denial: if I don't answer their email for a while that'll give me more time.

This composition has come to mind a lot during the past few months.

A few years ago I wrote an article discussing the issues surrounding Bluetooth audio latency, and I feel like now is a good time to re-evaluate things, after a couple of generations of AirPods, and the new AirPods Pro.

Just a quick update - a couple of weeks ago I passed my PhD viva, with minor corrections.

Why When playing the piano, very often it would be handy (pun most definitely intended) not to have to reach away from the keyboard when getting to the end of a page of music.

I've been programming now for about three years.

Having written a few fairly complex web projects in the last year, I've been learning a tonne of new stuff.

I've added a much-requested (and much-needed) feature to PodStand - you can now have it email out your profile details.

About a year ago, I made my trusty electric piano wireless using a Raspberry Pi Zero and some nifty software.

I use my keyboard (the piano kind) with my computer just as much as my other keyboard (the qwerty kind).

The referendum to repeal the 8th amendment to the Irish constitution is happening in a couple of days, and you should vote yes.

A new rumour regarding Apple and VR broke in the last day or two.

A recording of my piece which made the final of the 2018 Peter Rosser Composition Competition, performed by the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble at the award final, in Belfast. direct link