• Weeknotes for 25th November 2019 – 1st December 2019

  For my second #weeknotes blogpost, I’ve continued with last weeks “theme” of collecting up my browser searches and publishing the interesting bits. I spent most of my time this week either in meetings or at home waiting for a heating engineer, so I didn’t actually have much time to do any searching for cool projects.

  2019-12-02

• Weeknotes for 18th November 2019 – 24th November 2019

  I’ve followed a few digital government folk like @edent on twitter for a while and seen their #weeknotes approach to blogging, so I’ve decided to dip my toe in and write a little post about what I’ve been up to this past week.

  2019-11-25

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  Missing Maps #mapathon @ NatureScot

  One of the perks of working for NatureScot is that they encourage you to take a day per yea and volunteer on a charitable project. This year some of the staff from our GIS team organised a number of Missing Maps events, one of which I was lucky enough to find a place on.

  2018-12-31

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  Personal Weather Forecast

  tl;dr Personal Weather Forecast is a small JavaScript program that mashes together Dark Sky’s API with Twilio’s APIs to produce a personally tailored weather forecast and sends it to you as a text message every morning. The source code is available as a project on GitHub, here.

  2018-12-29

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  Trump is Big Boss

  tl;dr Trump Is Big Boss is a silly little program that randomly generates fake tweet screenshots that attribute quotes from Metal Gear’s Big Boss to @realDonaldTrump.

  2017-07-18

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  Fork Your Own Repo on GitHub

  A common time-saving ‘hack’ of mine when building ‘new-but-related-to-old’ projects is to fork an existing code base and use it as the boot-strap for the new project. GitHub, however, does not provide the functionality on their website to fork your own project; you can only fork other people’s projects. Here’s how to work around that.

  2017-07-04

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  Jeremy Kylebot

  tl;dr Jeremy Kylebot is a silly little program that randomly generates title cards in the style of The Jeremy Kyle Show and posts them to Twitter.

  2017-06-27