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Kian Ryan

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2026 5

  1. More Posts →
  2. Building PrusaSlicer on Debian Sid for OpenGL ES
  3. Plaintext pages in Jekyll
  4. Hosting on Mythic Beasts
  5. Leigh Hackspace - Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying, and Embrace The Chaos

2025 1

  1. How I stream video from every old device on my desk.

2024 4

  1. Cartridge Software for the Psion Series 3
  2. Psion OPL - A built in development environment, when we owned our devices
  3. HU-017A RDA5807S FM Radio Kit
  4. A One Handed Accessible Keyboard, Inspired by FrogPad

2023 4

  1. Connecting your RC2014 to a Psion 5MX, Psion 3, or other RS232 terminal
  2. Online Psion Document Conversion With PsiConv
  3. RC2014 Emulation for Development
  4. Getting Started With z80asm on the RC2014

2022 7

  1. In The Dark - A Rogue-like game for old and new systems
  2. The Rough and Ready Guide To Getting Your RC2014 Pro Online
  3. RC2014 Pro, Bowie, and a Merry Christmas
  4. The Sidecar for Psion - A PPP Modem and Linux Terminal for RS232 devices
  5. RS232 and Null Modem HAT for the Pi Zero
  6. TinyCPM - CP/M on a Tiny 2040
  7. Tetris, Two Books, Five Blocks

2015 14

  1. Buliding a youtube live streaming camera with a raspberry pi
  2. Running a modern connected fencing competition
  3. Chromecast audio quick review
  4. Offas dyke part 1 of many
  5. Parkruns or how i put one foot in front of the other
  6. Snowdon via rhyd ddu snowdonia
  7. Blackpool air show 10k
  8. Tesco your customer service is broken
  9. Eldir fawr snowdonia
  10. Coniston old man
  11. Mam tor
  12. Gadget of the year 2014
  13. Book review fire in the valley
  14. Crowdfunding is nothing new

2014 11

  1. Fie coaching course in budapest
  2. Vim csharp updated
  3. 24 hours with chromecast
  4. 72 hours later with the chromecast
  5. 7 languages in 7 weeks or maybe a bit longer
  6. Configuring postfix for local development
  7. Muplug the smallest uk usb charger on the planet
  8. Productivity ides vs text editors is just the tip
  9. Newsnight and the year of code
  10. One resolution for 2014
  11. Every day carry

2013 19

  1. Folding uk plugs
  2. Poppies future soldiers remembrance
  3. Disabling narrator in windows 8
  4. Checking your work e mail on virgin media residential could get you cut off
  5. Virgin media replies with respect to their tcs
  6. Google maps geocoding api v2
  7. Running a triathlon
  8. Rain rain come back
  9. Hats Off To Quinn At TapContext
  10. Omnisharp – the Vim C# Plugin you’ve been waiting for
  11. Lenovo X1 Carbon and Ubuntu 13.04
  12. Living With Migraines
  13. Tall Paul & Gemini Giant
  14. Entity Framework Gotchas – Strategies for Orphaned Child Objects
  15. Project Types – MVC 2 and MVC 3
  16. Dear Microsoft – Stop Making a Hostile Environment
  17. Treating A Sore Throat
  18. Occasional Vim Tip #1
  19. Fencing Equipment – What To Buy, When To Buy, How To Buy

2012 19

  1. SSH on Android
  2. FingerWorks TouchStream LP
  3. Barcamp Blackpool 4
  4. Who Needs a Laptop? Photo Management on Android
  5. gVim on Ubuntu – Running in Fullscreen
  6. London Olympics 2012
  7. A Quick Introduction To Screen
  8. RSS Feed of British Fencing News
  9. Vim-CSharp
  10. An Open Letter To Lenovo
  11. Name The Kitten
  12. Let’s Do The Timewarp Again – Back To Vim
  13. AppsLib – Rather Rude…
  14. Developer Commandments
  15. An aside – Fonts on EInk Readers
  16. It’s All Aquarion’s Fault
  17. Ruby Game of Life
  18. Sql Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services – 503 Error
  19. A Grimm Testing Story

2011 16

  1. Conway’s Game of Life
  2. Kobo Touch EReader
  3. SF Gateway Christmas/New Year Offer
  4. The Battle of Sausage (hereafter known as the Battle of 2011)
  5. Cobol
  6. Barcamp Blackpool 3
  7. Drag And Drop Problem With A Screen Extender (Airdisplay,DisplayLink, ScreenRecycler) On Lion
  8. Gadaffi Dead – BBC and NU.nl go for Gorefest
  9. Beautiful Things
  10. Dennis Ritchie vs Steve Jobs
  11. Leeds Hack 2011, Or That Was The Hack That Was
  12. Do More With Less (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Code)
  13. Nottingham Barcamp 2011
  14. 24… 72… Since Thursday with a Motorola Xoom
  15. Tips for Contractor CVs
  16. JsonRequestBehaviour.AllowGet & Visual Studio Regex

2010 26

  1. Application, Service and AIDL
  2. Parcelable, AIDL and IntelliJ
  3. LeedsHack 2010
  4. Does Anyone Else See Smiley Faces?
  5. National Rail – Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Cow
  6. Fencing on Gaydio 88.4FM
  7. National Freelancers Day
  8. Gorillas BETA
  9. Barcamp Manchester 4 – 04/12/2010
  10. .NET Website Builds Taking Forever?
  11. SQL Server NULLs and their impact
  12. CruiseControl.NET Google Gadget
  13. Fizz Buzz
  14. An (Un)healthy Relationship With Weight
  15. iPad – It’s just a big frickin’ iPhone, surely?
  16. Android Tablets – In Reply to the @thehodge
  17. Don McCullin Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
  18. Fiddler 2 and MVC Forms
  19. Taking a Digital Fast
  20. Digital Economy and the Pains of Democracy
  21. Almost 24 hours with the HTC Desire
  22. Android Market, Copy Protection And the HTC Desire
  23. Anti-Politics and the Naughty Step
  24. The Vote Now Show – Pure Filth
  25. UK Libel Laws
  26. Static IPs in VMWare Fusion

2009 62

  1. Masque Mobile: The fencing ref’s Android friend.
  2. Billed Under Client Code “Frosty”
  3. Orange Tentacle Christmas Card
  4. Geek Girl Dinner 4
  5. Euro Hotels London – Place to Avoid
  6. Barcamp Manchester
  7. Resources For Android Development
  8. Bob 12 – New Hat
  9. Internet Explorer User-Agent Strings
  10. Fundamentalists Welcome
  11. You know, XKCD is right…
  12. Barcamp Blackpool
  13. An Android App In 20 Minutes
  14. Log Parser Is My New Best Friend
  15. Android 1.6 – Brings Awesome Bar
  16. Ecommerce Headaches – Prices & VAT
  17. Fencing for Geeks
  18. First Techcrunch – Now Forbes
  19. Guathon – Before Tea
  20. Guathon – After Tea
  21. Livejournal iGoogle Gadget
  22. Ooops… TechCrunch just dropped the bomb on Spinvox
  23. Bolton Bazaar (7th – 8th August 2009) – Free Tickets
  24. I Want To Ride My Bicycle
  25. Northern Geeks Has A Website!
  26. Photography Ebay Listings
  27. Trucking Hell … In Bits
  28. The Garden Is Trying To Eat Me (So I’ll eat it)
  29. UK Votes
  30. Geek Girl Dinner – Manchester
  31. Northern Geeks
  32. Conferences, Geek Events, etc.
  33. Kian’s Rules For Freelancing
  34. Tweetup Manchester
  35. Javascript Intellisense & jQuery.noConflict();
  36. A Simple Generic Repository for Linq to SQL
  37. ASP.NET – Forms Inside Forms.
  38. Because Good (Free) Fonts Are So Hard To Find
  39. Welcome to the LifeTrack
  40. Abel and Cain (Surely Cole? – ed)
  41. Beef Casserole with Dumplings
  42. How to radicalise a middle class white man.
  43. Gardening for Geeks
  44. Wikis – Add Salt and Pepper to Taste
  45. Bob 11 – Fiscal Bob (In Technicolor!)
  46. At This Space Exhibition
  47. Roma & The Vatican
  48. Leeds Photocamp ’09
  49. Coffee – Red Roaster, Brighton
  50. American Soda GEEK Discount
  51. The Massive Dev Chart for Android
  52. Bob 10 – Caffinated Bob
  53. Books For Bricks
  54. Bob 7 – London Transport Policy
  55. Bob 9 – Where is Here?
  56. Knockin’ on Sheffield’s Door
  57. New Phishing Scam – Please Read
  58. Bob In Sheffield
  59. Analogue Photography – Gearing Up
  60. Review (of sorts): Belkin Network USB Hub
  61. Trucking Hell
  62. Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.

2008 15

  1. New MBP, Developer Tools Not Year Ready
  2. Bob 5 – The Box
  3. SQL Server Management Studio – Unable to browse databases.
  4. Beefing up Mail.app
  5. Bob 6 – Bob’s Festive Message
  6. ISO Countries and Their Codes In SQL
  7. Took You Long Enough…
  8. Accessing Session State in Handlers (.ashx)
  9. Bob 1 – Lists & Bob 2 – Hats
  10. Brighton Pier At Night
  11. Bob 3 – Identity
  12. Building AJAX/AJAJ With JQuery and .NET – JQuery Support for VS.
  13. Bob 4 – Tests
  14. The Venerable “if” Statement
  15. Barcamp Sheffield

Undated 75

  1. 2013 09 13 helvellyn via striding edge
  2. 2015 07 03 fleche
  3. 2015 07 10 zork nemesis
  4. 2015 08 23 new toys a few very short term reviews
  5. 2015 08 27 first impressions tex murphy tesla effect
  6. 2015 09 13 last impressions tex murphy tesla effect
  7. 2015 09 28 sort of getting the pi
  8. 2015 10 21 a story about regression testing
  9. 2015 12 03 no monitor no keyboard no problem raspberry
  10. 2015 12 08 my implementation of a simon attiny84 controller
  11. 2016 02 12 usbaspslowname usbasp slow
  12. 2016 03 30 teaching the game
  13. 2016 03 30 referees suck
  14. 2016 04 04 frustrated needed to make something so
  15. 2016 04 27 kings quest 2015
  16. 2016 05 03 under 24 hours with a blackberry priv
  17. 2016 05 17 24 wait 48 wait 72 wait 96 hours with
  18. 2016 06 17 jo coxs death outside the bubble
  19. 2016 07 09 prototyping the extension lights pcb and ive
  20. 2016 07 10 soldered up a sparkfun benchtop power supply and
  21. 2016 10 23 obduction
  22. 2016 11 14 capacitive sensing through moderately thick glass
  23. 2016 11 23 the previous power supply i used with the sparkfun
  24. 2016 12 07 decade resistance box finally finished really
  25. 2017 04 01 starship titanic
  26. 2017 04 06 cat and i made it to maker faire
  27. 2017 04 06 nodemcu development board esp8266 from maker
  28. 2017 05 20 think thats everything for tomorrows tri
  29. 2017 05 22 cheshire triathlon setting and meeting goals
  30. 2017 06 04 2km in salford quays this morning lovely clear
  31. 2017 07 02 fake time cover generator
  32. 2017 08 08 dreamfall chapters
  33. 2017 10 15 solder fume fan built from an old salvaged cpu fan
  34. 2017 12 04 2017 triathlons a year in review
  35. 2017 12 13 yorkshire 20 hoodie massive thanks to
  36. 2018 01 10 md5 online
  37. 2018 02 28 from wordpress to jekyll
  38. 2018 03 08 plywood shelving an afternoon of wood
  39. 2018 11 02 triathlon season review
  40. 2019 02 05 lets talk about learning
  41. 2019 04 23 Clitheroe Triathlon 2019
  42. 2019 05 28 octopus iis certificate store
  43. 2019 05 28 southport triathlon 2019
  44. 2019 05 29 enable 32 bit apps
  45. 2019 06 09 bolton fun triathlon 2019
  46. 2019 06 09 deva triathlon 2019
  47. 2019 07 22 ripon triathlon 2019
  48. 2019 07 22 taking a break
  49. 2019 09 16 fleetwood 2019
  50. 2019 09 16 triathlon season review 2019
  51. 2019 09 16 try on the tyne
  52. 2019 10 06 maker nightlight
  53. 2019 11 19 allergy design
  54. 2019 11 19 pectoral cross
  55. 2020 12 10 pomodoro clock
  56. 2021 03 15 puzzle cave adventure game
  57. 2021 04 28 vscode ssh windows
  58. 2021 06 07 guardian sonia sodha reply
  59. 2021 07 14 psion 5mx
  60. 2021 09 08 build tools 2015
  61. 2021 09 08 psion to markdown
  62. 2022 02 07 my spectrum
  63. 2022 03 02 jurdle a wordle clone for the jupiter ace
  64. 2022 04 09 rc2014 a modular z80 computer and a basic adventure
  65. 2022 04 09 serial on windows subsystem for linux wsl
  66. 2022 05 09 attiny85 ws2812b pirate chest recycled pla
  67. 2022 05 24 twitch authentication with python
  68. 2022 05 30 making changes to our little prusa mini
  69. 2022 06 07 electromagnetic field and a weather app for your tidal
  70. 2022 06 13 connecting a psion to a raspberry pi with serial
  71. 2022 07 25 a dark room you can take with you pi pico eink
  72. 2022 11 09 from twitter to mastodon on your jekyll home page
  73. https://www.kianryan.co.uk/404/
  74. Now
  75. Infocom