The Curious Engineer

Terence Eden’s Blog

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2021 365

December 2021

  1. Goodbye daily blogging
  2. Movie Review: Ammonite ★★★★⯪
  3. Certified Blockchain Professional - Module 1
  4. Certified Blockchain Professional - Part 1
  5. Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android
  6. Energy efficiency of modern codecs
  7. Movie Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ★★★⯪☆
  8. Book Review - Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal ★★★★⯪
  9. Why doesn't Disney+ support accents in profile names?
  10. Free Software as in Free House
  11. Movie Review: Nina Forever ★★★★★
  12. Book Review: The Medusa Chronicles - Alastair Reynolds & Stephen Baxter ★★★★★
  13. Movie Review: No Time To Die ★★⯪☆☆
  14. An NFT without a Blockchain. No gas fees. No Eth. No gatekeepers
  15. Authorisation vs Consent
  16. Thoughts on instant grocery apps
  17. Movie Review: How I Won The War ★★★☆☆
  18. Giving Blood - Part Ⅲ
  19. Star Wars and Standards
  20. Book Review - Future law : emerging technology, regulation and ethics ★★★★☆
  21. Vax³💉💉💉
  22. Review: Virgin 1Gbps Fibre ★★★★⯪
  23. Movie Review: ⊃⋃⋂⪽ ★★★★☆
  24. You have fundamentally misunderstood Doctor Who
  25. Review: Ergodox EZ Keyboard ★★★☆☆
  26. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 13 - Flux
  27. Book Review: The Idiot Gods - David Zindell ★★★★☆
  28. Responsible Disclosure: Chrome security bug let tabs draw over each other ($1k bounty)
  29. Thermal Imaging Our Home
  30. Movie Review: Cruella ★★★★☆
  31. Review: Buzz Skates - the Adult Heelys ★★★☆☆

November 2021

  1. Review - The Beatles: Get Back ★★★★★
  2. Book Review: IBM and the Holocaust ★★★★★
  3. Theatre Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane ★★★★★
  4. APMG Linux Proctoring - Certified In The Art of Hacking Exam
  5. Download 1080p streams from iPlayer
  6. Book Review: Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz ★★★★★
  7. And now it's… Springtime For Crypto
  8. Book Review: Disability and the Tudors - All the King's Fools by Phillipa Vincent Connolly ★★★⯪☆
  9. LG killed its 360 camera after only 4 years - here's how to get it back
  10. Quick Image Montages
  11. All the books I've read this year
  12. How many of my colleagues are replicants?
  13. 2021 - a year in review
  14. "It's better to ask forgiveness" only works when there's a positive disparity in power
  15. Thinking of uses for BlockChains
  16. Book Review: Glass Coffin by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch (Darkwood Book 3) ★★★★⯪
  17. Open UK at COP26
  18. Smart Quotes and Coding Examples
  19. No one knows what's coming next
  20. Gadget Review: Avigator 455W Projector. 1080p & WiFi for £150! ★★★★☆
  21. Book Review: Seeing Like A State - James C. Scott ★★★★⯪
  22. ProctorU is dystopian spyware
  23. MSc Assignment 3 - Business and Technology
  24. What is my Career Development Plan?
  25. Review: Neu Modo Standing Desk Mat ★★★★★
  26. Certified in The Art of Hacking - Day 5
  27. Certified in The Art of Hacking - Day 4
  28. Certified in The Art of Hacking - Day 3
  29. Certified in The Art of Hacking - Day 2
  30. Certified in The Art of Hacking - Day 1

October 2021

  1. What is "Social Media"?
  2. Book Review: Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo ★★★★★
  3. No, you can't save £30 per year by switching off your "standby" devices
  4. Book Review: After Meat - The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World by Karthik Sekar ★★★☆☆
  5. Book Review: Professional Practice in Engineering and Computing: Preparing for Future Careers by Riadh Habash ☆☆☆☆☆
  6. Review: A Cheap Microphone Arm ★★★★☆
  7. EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
  8. Better Footnotes in WordPress JetPack
  9. The games that shape our language
  10. Notes on using an Android phone as a Webcam on Linux
  11. Disposable Phone Numbers
  12. Book Review: Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland ★★★★☆
  13. What does Google think the minimum wage is?
  14. Book Review: Sexual Revolution - Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback by Laurie Penny ★★★★⯪
  15. Where are the high-tech dental implants?
  16. Review: InkBox semi-permanent tattoos ★★★★★
  17. Weeknotes - Lustrum
  18. Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
  19. TTSF (Text To Shipping Forecast)
  20. Review: Putorsen Standing Desk Adapter ★★★★★
  21. Investing In People
  22. Set your own emoji shortcuts in Ubuntu / Pop_OS
  23. Movie Review: Love, Weddings & Other Disasters ⯪☆☆☆☆
  24. SlideShare is selling your old slides - here's how to stop it
  25. How to fix an upgraded Firefox profile
  26. Book Review: Such Big Teeth - by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch (Darkwood Book 2) ★★★★☆
  27. Gadget Review: SubbyTech Magnetic Charge & Sync Cables ★★★★☆
  28. Gadget Review: Seek Thermal Compact Infrared Camera ★★★★☆
  29. Buying obsolete keyboards - Microsoft 4000
  30. Change how fast your cursor blinks in Firefox
  31. New Batteries Make Everything Better

September 2021

  1. DVD Review: The Invisible Enemy ★★★⯪☆
  2. Opting Out of TurnItIn
  3. Magnetic chargers are the future
  4. Movie Review: Free Guy ★★★★☆
  5. Turning an eInk screen into a monochrome art gallery
  6. Book Review: A Teaspoon and an Open Mind - The Science of Doctor Who by Michael White ★★⯪☆☆
  7. x-no-data-charges
  8. Book Review: New Moons For Sam, Becoming Kiwi – Life of a New Zealand Diplomat by Peter Hamilton ★★⯪☆☆
  9. Book Review: All That Remains - A Life in Death by Sue Black ★★★★☆
  10. How do you store numbers with leading zeros?
  11. Howto: Stop Firefox Forcing Dark Mode on Websites
  12. Book Review: The Atlas of Unusual Languages by Zoran Nikolić ★☆☆☆☆
  13. Alexa leaks your private wishlists
  14. How to add ISSN metadata to a web page
  15. Book Review: The Transgender Issue - An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye ★★★★⯪
  16. Book Review: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson ★⯪☆☆☆
  17. -webkit-text-stroke and emoji
  18. Où est L'Inconnue de la Seine en 3D?
  19. Book Review: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ★★☆☆☆
  20. Augmented Reality Twitter Conversations!
  21. Twitter trialling "bot" account identification
  22. Pure CSS Corner Banner
  23. Book Review: Darkwood by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch ★★★★⯪
  24. Book Review: Bias Interrupted Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good - Joan C. Williams ★★★⯪☆
  25. Replacing broken avatar images with background SVG Emoji
  26. Review: Boyue Likebook P78 eReader - the Anti-Kindle ★★★⯪☆
  27. What's the window size of a background tab?
  28. Outdated Advice For Job Applicants
  29. (re) Introducing TweeView - a Tree Visualisation for Twitter Conversations
  30. Visualising Twitter Conversations in 3D Space

August 2021

  1. Book Review: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race - Ayanna Thompson ★★★★☆
  2. Book Review: To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers ★★★★⯪
  3. Book Review: The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power by Deirdre Mask ★★★★★
  4. Book Review: Amatka by Karin Tidbeck ★★★★★
  5. Movie Review: Boss Level ★☆☆☆☆
  6. Book Review: Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang ★★★⯪☆
  7. Book Review: How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu ★★★★★
  8. Footnotes in Markdown
  9. Searching online for books in local libraries
  10. Rethinking Twitter Verification
  11. Book Review: The Power of Privilege - How White People can Challenge Racism by June Sarpong ★★★★⯪
  12. Book Review: Alien 3 - The Unproduced Screenplay ★★★★☆
  13. MSc Assignment 2 - Data Analytics Principles
  14. Book Review: Clockwork River by J.S. Emery ★⯪☆☆☆
  15. Full Disclosure: XSS in Getty Images
  16. Adding a language tag to image elements
  17. Porn Spam on Google Maps
  18. Should browsers remember 2FA codes?
  19. Book Review: The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman ★★★★☆
  20. Three Things I Wish I'd Known About NHS Technology
  21. Book Review: The Cabinet - Un-su Kim / 캐비닛 - 김언수 ★★☆☆☆
  22. Best Bulk Data PAYG SIMs in the UK
  23. Book Review: The Art of Statistics - Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter ★★★★⯪
  24. To download this page, click here
  25. Responsible Disclosure: [REDACTED] XSS
  26. Giving Blood - Part Deux
  27. VR for Statistics
  28. Run Internet Explorer 5 in your browser!
  29. Book Review: The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoë Playdon ★★★★★
  30. Reprojecting Satellite Maps
  31. You don't need external assets in an HTML file

July 2021

  1. Did Dvorak Die "A Bitter Man"?
  2. A Decade of Drinking Beer on Untappd
  3. Book Review: No Bath But Plenty Of Bubbles: An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front 1970-73 by Lisa Power ★★★★☆
  4. South Up Equal Earth Projection in R
  5. Did Nikola Tesla receive "nothing but insults and humiliation"?
  6. Download ACSM files in Linux - without using Adobe Digital Editions!
  7. 🔥.me.ss! You can't register emoji domains in South Sudan
  8. A brief look at ACSM files
  9. Book Review: The End of Bias - How We Change Our Minds by Jessica Nordell ★★★★☆
  10. Book Review: DALEK - Robert Shearman ★★★★★
  11. Synthetic Poetry
  12. Movie Review: Gunpowder Milkshake ★★★☆☆
  13. Book Review: Sinopticon ★★★★★
  14. Movie Review: Mr Roosevelt ★★★☆☆
  15. Is this a banking scam SMS?
  16. Book Review: How to Make the World Add Up - Tim Harford ★★★★★
  17. Movie Review: Black Widow ★★⯪☆☆
  18. How much money I've spent on mobile calls / text / data in the last year
  19. Gadget Review: USB-C powered Semiconductor Neck Cooler ★★★★⯪
  20. Review: Sennheiser EPOS ADAPT 560 Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Headset - plus Linux info ★★★☆☆
  21. "Why do we use R rather than Excel?"
  22. Drones 🆚 Censorship
  23. NDA Expired - let's spill the beans on a weird startup
  24. Linux Clipboard History for Ubuntu / Pop OS
  25. Easy Emoji in Ubuntu / Pop OS
  26. Book Review: The City We Became - N. K. Jemisin ★★★★☆
  27. Why spam calls come from similar numbers to your phone number
  28. Was Alan Turing "Controversial"?
  29. Why I have intro music on my video calls
  30. My theory on why advertising is so terrible
  31. South Up, NZ Centric, Equal Earth Map

June 2021

  1. The First Hacker
  2. Game Review: Day of the Tentacle - Remastered ★★★★★
  3. Check your battery stats with the OnePlus Diagnostic Tool
  4. Where is the original "Overview of SHARD" paper?
  5. Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?
  6. Gadget Review: SMT1500i UPS + Linux Instructions ★★★★★
  7. Book Review: Sundiver - David Brin ★★★★★
  8. Book Review: The Happiness Revolution ★★☆☆☆
  9. What do you call open source software that just works?
  10. You can't print this blog post
  11. Movie Review: Thunder Force ★★☆☆☆
  12. How do you link Verifiable Credentials to a human?
  13. Movie Review: The Mitchells 🆚 The Machines ★★★★★
  14. Book Review: "Index, A History of the" by Dennis Duncan ★★★★★
  15. What was the best era for British comedy and why?
  16. Mobile data is getting too cheap to meter - free bandwidth is here
  17. Animated TreeMaps in R - the hard way
  18. What's the origin of the phrase "we shouldn’t just be pulling people out of the river. We should be going upstream to find out who’s pushing them in"?
  19. Vaxed and Waxed
  20. Lore of the Wild - a musical walk through the woods
  21. Book Review: Difficult Women by Helen Lewis ★★★★☆
  22. Removing features is a shitty move
  23. Gendered 2nd Person Pronouns
  24. ⩵ != ==
  25. Book Review: Assassin's Orbit by John Appel ★★★⯪☆
  26. Movie Review: Marriage Story ★⯪☆☆☆
  27. Movie Review: TENET ★★★★★
  28. How not to do coding examples
  29. The follow-but-mute antipattern
  30. Book Review: The Computer’s Voice - From Star Trek to Siri by Liz W. Faber ★★☆☆☆

May 2021

  1. What are "unusual characters"
  2. My solution to spam calls
  3. MSc First Assignment - Technical and Digital Leadership
  4. A couple of book clocks
  5. Using SipGate to set up a BANANAPHONE!
  6. Responsible Disclosure: Content Injection flaw in Gett's Website
  7. Yo! Stadia! How much do your games cost?
  8. Book Review: The 22 Murders Of Madison May - Max Barry ★★★★☆
  9. Let's eat banana peel!
  10. How much does it cost to call an 056 number in the UK?
  11. What's your API's "Time To 200"?
  12. Book Review: Notes from the Burning Age - Claire North ★★★★★
  13. Why do scammers love NameCheap?
  14. What I learned from reading *all* my old tweets
  15. Zotero Citations to Markdown Links via CSL
  16. An underwhelming break in lockdown
  17. My Robot Vacuum Cleaner is Afraid of Sunshine
  18. "Looks like I´m single again" Why can't Twitter deal with this spam?
  19. That's not my name! Making sensible decisions when asking for a user's title
  20. if ( gender == "female" && married == True && age >=30 ) { hasChildren = True; }
  21. Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerts being tested in the UK
  22. Some Short Thoughts On Smart Tags
  23. Blimey! A WiFi smoke alarm for twenty quid! ★★★☆☆
  24. A year of WFL (Working From Linux)
  25. Book Review: Quarantine Comix ★★★☆☆
  26. A weird solar blockchain thing - Rowan Energy
  27. The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank
  28. Book review: A Brief History of Motion - Tom Standage ★★★⯪☆
  29. How not to sort a list of countries
  30. Book Review: Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers 3) - Becky Chambers ★★★★☆
  31. Book Review: A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2) by Becky Chambers ★★★★☆

April 2021

  1. How to fake AVIF thumbnail images
  2. Homebrew Wanker™! Review of the Pinter fresh brewing kit ★★☆☆☆
  3. Let's make football matches shorter!!
  4. Book Review: Our Biggest Experiment - A History of the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell ★★★★★
  5. Book Review: Handmade - A Scientist’s Search for Meaning through Making by Anna Ploszajski ★★★★★
  6. What playing football taught me about hacking - Part 2
  7. What playing football taught me about hacking - Part 1
  8. Excel as a mapping tool
  9. Howto: Remove Twitter's Trending Topics
  10. What's the cost of going to work?
  11. Are APIs Elitist?
  12. security.txt now uses ISO8601 (sorta...)
  13. Have ComputerShare screwed up your EquatePlus account? Call them on 08009231507
  14. What's the origin of the phrase "Big Data Doesn't Fit In Excel"?
  15. Everything I Know About Relationships, I Learned From Gilmore Girls
  16. Book Review: Agency - William Gibson ★★★☆☆
  17. Home brewing and Cryptocurrency
  18. My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service
  19. Book Review: A History of Women in Men's Clothes - Norena Shopland ★★★★⯪
  20. Predicting The Future - What 1981 Got Wrong
  21. Whatever happened to IoT smoke alarms?
  22. Weeknotes: Vaccinated - Part 1
  23. Questions to ask before launching a crypto-payments feature
  24. Movie Review: Coded Bias ★★★★⯪
  25. Game Review: Thomas Was Alone ★★★★⯪
  26. Book Review: The Gameshouse - The Serpent, The Thief and The Master by Claire North ★★★★⯪
  27. Code Palindromes
  28. Book Review: What White People Can Do Next - From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri ★★★★☆
  29. Book Review: Always On - Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era by Rory Cellan-Jones ★★★★★
  30. Book Review: Good Data by Sam Gilbert ★☆☆☆☆

March 2021

  1. Book Review: Monstrous Design - Kat Dunn (Battalion of the Dead series Book 2) ★★★★⯪
  2. Which generates more electricity - East- or West-facing solar panels?
  3. How to buy team doughnuts when WFH?
  4. Everything is a string. Everything is an object. Everything is bits.
  5. 1 year of @edent_solar. We are 100% offset!
  6. Book Preview: Bletchley's Secret Source - Churchill’s Wrens and the Y Service in World War Ⅱ by Peter Hore ★★★★☆
  7. Book Review: Star Wars - From a Certain Point of View ★★★☆☆
  8. Book Review: Feminist City by Leslie Kern ★★★★☆
  9. Book Review: Doctor Who - The Witchfinders by Joy Wilkinson ★★★★★
  10. Book Review: Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth ★★★★☆
  11. Book Review: Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen ★★★☆☆
  12. Emoji Passwords and BitWarden
  13. Playing Shakespeare
  14. What happens if you steal someone's Good Tweet™?
  15. Second Hand Books Are Theft
  16. Book Review: Kindred - Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes ★★★★☆
  17. Book Review: Black Sci-Fi Short Stories ★★★★☆
  18. Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour's candle? Or, should companies pay for employees' broadband?
  19. KOReader - change forward and back to bottom and top
  20. These are no longer "unprecedented times"
  21. What I've learned from a year of lockdown
  22. DroidCam - use an old Android as your Webcam
  23. Book Review: Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories Series Book 1) - Mary Robinette Kowal ★★⯪☆☆
  24. Book Review: Dangerous Remedy (Battalion of the Dead series Book 1) - Kat Dunn ★★★★★
  25. Book Review: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers ★★★★★
  26. GovCamp Rules - In Memoriam
  27. Do you want to be friends with your courier?
  28. What's the point of buying autographs?
  29. Why is there no "pay me directly" standard?
  30. "Advanced Network Error Search" - how to turn off Virgin's least helpful service
  31. Preview: Virgin Media's Intelligent WiFi Plus Pods

February 2021

  1. Our competitor was a dud - and we still lost
  2. How to track down the original owners of stolen Twitter accounts
  3. Let's Disrupt TV Advertising!
  4. (Mostly) Vegan
  5. Book Review: How To Invent Everything ★★★★☆
  6. Book Review: The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis ★★★★☆
  7. How do I know you?
  8. It's cheaper because we pass the risk on to you!
  9. Stop this digital ownership madness. NFTs are bullshit. And the stupid makes me angry.
  10. Book Review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle ★★★★★
  11. Building a car which cannot speed
  12. Movie Review: Royal Hunt of The Sun (1969) ★★⯪☆☆
  13. What's the point of Zip files?
  14. When your game console becomes your bank
  15. Force Directed Graph of the London Tube Map - including CrossRail!
  16. Minimum Viable Tweet to Semantic SVG
  17. Ten Years Later - Was Elop Right?
  18. What do you miss the least from pre-lockdown life?
  19. Why is it so hard to give digital gifts?
  20. The next disruption of the music industry?
  21. Movie Review: Space Sweepers / 승리호 ★★★★☆
  22. When a convenience subscription becomes a chore
  23. Upgrading the Boyue Likebook Ares on Linux
  24. That's not my name! Practical problems in real name policies.
  25. Creating a public, read-only calendar
  26. Disintermediate The State
  27. Just because I have a vertical screen, doesn't mean I'm on a phone!
  28. How to publish on the web without permission

January 2021

  1. Book Review: Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ★★★★★
  2. Data Is / Data Are
  3. What's the point of a lecturer?
  4. Book Review: I'm a Joke and So Are You ★★★☆☆
  5. Review: BitCoin Hurricane (SimCavalier Book One) by Kate Baucherel ★★★★☆
  6. The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
  7. Movie Review: TiMER ★★★★★
  8. Game Review: The Secret of Monkey Island - Special Edition ★★★★☆
  9. Moore's Law and Cars
  10. What's the "Uber" of the Civil Service?
  11. Why don't video calls have stereo audio?
  12. I only know you from above the shoulders
  13. What if British Airways sold passports?
  14. Downloading 360 Videos from YouTube (and playback in Linux)
  15. That's not how 2FA works
  16. £25 GDPR Compensation - why it's always worth complaining
  17. WordPress Stories - a quick review
  18. Movie Review: Wonder Woman 1984 ★★⯪☆☆
  19. Book Review: Radical Help - Hillary Cottam ★★★★★
  20. How to preserve deleted Tweets in WordPress?
  21. Book Review: Signal to Noise - Silvia Moreno-Garcia ★★★★☆
  22. MSc Notes - 0th Week
  23. Falsehoods programmers believe about... Biometrics
  24. Book Review: Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker ★★★★⯪
  25. Book Review: Eat That Frog - Brian Tracy ★⯪☆☆☆
  26. Don't think of it as Working From Home - Think of it as Extreme Hotdesking!!
  27. Movie Review: Escape Room ★⯪☆☆☆
  28. WordPress's undocumented stats API
  29. Book Review: The Problem with Men: When is it International Men’s Day? by Richard Herring ★★★★★
  30. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who – Revolution of the Daleks
  31. Best of: What I blogged about in 2020

2020 366

December 2020

  1. Blogging Every Day For A Year
  2. Add .ics events to your main Google Calendar
  3. Build - Don't Buy
  4. Screen recording on Wayland / Pop_OS
  5. Anatomy of my perfect ls command
  6. Data is so cheap it is being given away
  7. Utilizing Quantum BlockChain for 6th Generation Neural Networks
  8. Sometimes a bad patch is better than no patch
  9. Book Review: The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman ★★★★☆
  10. I know how many microphones and cameras you have
  11. How many connected devices do you have at home?
  12. Event Horizon's crappy UI ★☆☆☆☆
  13. Voting Systems and Simplicity
  14. I have resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
  15. Why is there no eBook of Future Shock?
  16. Book Review: Sweet Harmony by Claire North ★★★★★
  17. The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar.
  18. 3 years to fix bad alt text
  19. Making Time More Accessible
  20. Book Review: The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands ★★★★★
  21. How and why to use Lynx - the faster web browser
  22. What's the point of Gigabit broadband?
  23. A (terrible?) way to do footnotes in HTML
  24. A QR code built from Emoji
  25. Is Synthetarianism Compatible With Veganism?
  26. Weeknotes: I've hit the wall
  27. Movie Review: Zombeavers ★★★★⯪
  28. How to get a 10% speed boost on Virgin Internet FOR FREE
  29. Coping with HEIC in the browser
  30. Book Review: Doctor Who - Scratchman ★★⯪☆☆
  31. Should ₹ be part of the Latin font subset?

November 2020

  1. Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - BONUS ENTRY!
  2. The New Mutants - one of the more interesting superhero movies ★★★★☆
  3. Book Review: Algorithms of Oppression - Safiya Noble ★★★★☆
  4. Review: Moixa Solar Battery
  5. What would happen if computers never got any faster?
  6. Movie Review - The Craft: Legacy
  7. Three small tips for shrinking SVG images
  8. How do you raise a software bug with a book publisher?
  9. Living the Stochastic Life
  10. Book Review: Shouting Zeros and Ones - Digital Technology, Ethics and Policy in New Zealand - Andrew Chen ★★★★★
  11. A year of only reading books by women
  12. New Year's Resolution - start an MSc
  13. A Year In Review
  14. Book Review: The Thief on the Winged Horse - Kate Mascarenhas ★★★★★
  15. Review: Circe by Madeline Miller ★★★★★
  16. Why Lying is Essential for Privacy Herd Immunity
  17. Introducing - On This Day in Twistory
  18. Introducing DOI2HT.ML - the simple semantic citation server
  19. How To Vote
  20. How many marriages have been saved by GPS?
  21. Review: Aftershokz Titanium Bone Conducting Headphones ★★★★⯪
  22. A Visitation of Long Gone Cats
  23. Book Review: Privacy is Power - Carissa Véliz ★★★★★
  24. Review: G9070 Robot Vacuum ★★★★☆
  25. Movie Review: An American Werewolf in London ★★★★★
  26. Movie Review: Zodiac ★⯪☆☆☆
  27. Open Data - but not *too* open
  28. Using Soundex to find Duplicate Database Entries
  29. If HTML5 Were British
  30. Reflections on "30 Predictions for Twitter"

October 2020

  1. Movie Review: The Shining ★★★★⯪
  2. Movie Review: Judy ★★★★★
  3. Game Review: Catlateral Damage ★★★★☆
  4. Game Review: Fugue in Void ★★⯪☆☆
  5. Every Date is Significant
  6. Moneyed - a personal OpenBanking API
  7. Introducing Slowww - the slow web server
  8. Movie Review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm ★★★★☆
  9. Movie Review: Games Night ★★★★☆
  10. Game Review: Islands Non-Places ⯪☆☆☆☆
  11. Localisation is too hard for Gmail
  12. Game Review: WitchWay (and getting it running on Linux) ★★★☆☆
  13. Movie Review: Identity Thief ★☆☆☆☆
  14. Game Review: One Night Stand ★★★★⯪
  15. Replacing the MotionEngine on a Panasonic TV
  16. Unofficial MoneyDashboard Neon API
  17. Unofficial MoneyDashboard API
  18. Man Goes And Perishes - inside some cheap motion sensitive LEDs ★★★★⯪
  19. Movie Review: That Gal... Who was in that thing... ★★★★☆
  20. Movie Review: That Guy... Who Was in That Thing ★★★★☆
  21. Please stop using CDNs for external Javascript libraries
  22. Reflections on four years in the Civil Service
  23. The usability of HTML elements
  24. Movie Review: Bombshell ★★☆☆☆
  25. Adding Web Monetization to your site using Coil
  26. Movie Review: In Time ★★★⯪☆
  27. Performative Emotions
  28. Review: Lexar corner desk ★★★★☆
  29. Review: eufyCam 2C Wireless Home Security Camera System ★★★★⯪
  30. Review: Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets ★★★★☆
  31. Reducing GPS accuracy in photos

September 2020

  1. Titles and Pronouns
  2. Six Months of Solar Power Stats
  3. Movie Review: Palm Springs ★★★★★
  4. Don't trust Cloudflare with your personal data
  5. WOTAN - the Font of Doctor Who and the War Machines
  6. Cisco AnyConnect for Linux - save profile
  7. Review: YumAsia Mini Panda Rice Cooker ★★★★⯪
  8. Should Twitter tell you if you've been following a fake account?
  9. Opening a Rediffusion Junction Box
  10. How can I get consistent sizes with physically different monitors on Linux?
  11. You have no idea of the changes which are coming
  12. Rituals and Milestones in Developer Life
  13. All the jobs I failed to get
  14. iOS 14 gets support for the Unicode Power Symbol!
  15. Review - 1440p Webcam - too good to be true? ★★★★★
  16. Discolouration of Boyue eInk screens
  17. Review: Doctor Who - The Web Planet ★☆☆☆☆
  18. A Collection of Imaginary Software
  19. Movie Review: The Island ★★★⯪☆
  20. Forced into the FIRE
  21. Movie Review: The Magic Christian ★☆☆☆☆
  22. Please Stop Inventing New Software Licences
  23. Movie Review: But I'm A Cheerleader ★★★★⯪
  24. Movie Review: Bill & Ted Face The Music ★★★★☆
  25. A floppy-disk Walkman - using a Raspberry Pi
  26. Podcasts on Floppy Disk
  27. Review: TEAC USB Floppy Drive ★★★★★
  28. Review: A portable battery with USB Power Delivery ★★★★★
  29. Game Review: Factorio ★★★★★
  30. How can I launch a Spotify album from an NFC tag?

August 2020

  1. That Time I Accidentally Invented Twitter
  2. I have 4% 2FA coverage
  3. Book Review: Utopia Five (Panopticon Book 1) - A.E. Currie ★★★⯪☆
  4. The State of SIP
  5. Why didn't Phonewords take off in the UK?
  6. Check your biographic privilege
  7. Giving up on phone contracts
  8. Movie Review: aTypical Wednesday ★★★★☆
  9. Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets
  10. Book Review: Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain ★★☆☆☆
  11. More Phishers On Twitter
  12. Review: Flyland USB-C Hub ★★★★☆
  13. Review: Edmond / Cyrano, Mon Amour ★★★★☆
  14. Thirty Percent
  15. Review: Lud-in-the-Mist ★★★★★
  16. Movie Review: Please Stand By ★★★★★
  17. Buying a single character domain - and 3 character FQDN - for £15
  18. Book Review: Brit(ish) ★★★★★
  19. Interactive HTML Trees with no JavaScript and no CSS
  20. OMG! Twitter release an OFFICIAL conversations API!
  21. Book Review: The One That Got Away ★★★★☆
  22. Book Review: A Short Philosophy of Birds ⯪☆☆☆☆
  23. Book Review: The Long Tomorrow ★★★★⯪
  24. How popular are "And Daughters" businesses?
  25. Where Everybody Knows Your Name (and other metadata)
  26. "I could build that in five minutes!"
  27. Broadcasting vinyl over my LAN - ALSA2ChromeCast
  28. Book Review - Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code ★★★⯪☆
  29. Let's get rid of humans
  30. Inside a £30 record player ★★★★☆
  31. Do any Open Source Licences require source history?

July 2020

  1. All Good Things
  2. Micro-Aggressions vs Micro-Incivilities
  3. Book Review: The Relentless Moon ★★★★★
  4. Movie Review: Cats ★★⯪☆☆
  5. Usability of Footnotes
  6. Book Review: Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig ★★★⯪☆
  7. Review: OpenEar Trio Bluetooth headphones ★★★⯪☆
  8. Book Review: A Symphony of Echoes ★★★⯪☆
  9. Whose bug is it anyway?
  10. User Experience - don't send me a bill before I've used your service
  11. Building a Record Wall
  12. Any claim without a URl should be treated as suspicious
  13. Adding SIP calls to Android - for free!
  14. Book Review: Black Tudors: The Untold Story - Miranda Kaufmann ★★★★⯪
  15. All your Frais are problematic
  16. Crypto Investment Scammers calling from 02085044434
  17. My triple screen set-up for effective online presentations
  18. Movie Review: The Personal History of David Copperfield ★★★★★
  19. Movie Review: How To Build A Girl ★★★★☆
  20. Adding Semantic Reviews / Rich Snippets to your WordPress Site
  21. Book Review: Superior: The Return of Race Science - Angela Saini ★★★★★
  22. Movie Review: What Men Want ★★⯪☆☆
  23. Gadget Review: Magnetic Charging Cables ★★★★★
  24. Crappy COVID Gadgets - Phone Sanitiser ⯪☆☆☆☆
  25. Using the Mini DisplayPort on the Clevo N151CU / Lafité IV / System76 Darter Pro / Entroware Proteus
  26. 1,800 days of minute-by-minute solar generation as Open Data
  27. Book Review: "Philosophy of Race: An Introduction" - Naomi Zack ★★★⯪☆
  28. Review: OldShark Ring Light ★★★★⯪
  29. Goodbye avatars .io - hello unavatar!
  30. Game Review: Arcade Spirits ★★★★⯪
  31. Halfway through the year

June 2020

  1. This Artwork is an amiibo
  2. Game Review: Minit (and how to get it working on Ubuntu Linux) ★★★⯪☆
  3. Review: WiFi Endoscope ★★★★☆
  4. Game Review: EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER ★★★☆☆
  5. Game Review: A Mortician's Tale ★★★★⯪
  6. Symbian Won
  7. Game Review: Night in the Woods
  8. Being Normal
  9. Game Review: A Short Hike ★★★★⯪
  10. Review: Yanmai USB Microphone
  11. Happy Solstice from @edent_solar
  12. New T-Shirt Idea
  13. Nominations are now open for the @openuk_uk awards
  14. Review - Phomemo Mini Bluetooth Printer ★★★★⯪
  15. Building a Minimum Viable Laptop Sticker Business
  16. Wanted - audio output based on screen output for Linux
  17. Book Review - Good Services ★★★★★
  18. Gadget Review - YSSHUI NTAG215 NFC Tags ★★⯪☆☆
  19. For Sale - Animated Laptop Stickers
  20. Review: Shakespeare in the Park - Much Ado About Nothing
  21. Howto: Disable image pop-ups in WordPress comments
  22. OnePlus 5T - two-and-a-half years later
  23. Review: The House of Shattered Wings - Aliette de Bodard ★★⯪☆☆
  24. Review: Heated Beard Straightener
  25. We've built a towering pile of shite
  26. A holiday is a great way to prevent a messiah complex
  27. Review: YLpower 87W USB-C Charger (MSH-87PD)
  28. Laptop Sticker Paralysis
  29. There's nothing I hate more than text config files
  30. Review: The House Without Windows - Barbara Newhall Follett ★★⯪☆☆

May 2020

  1. Paying people for their attention
  2. Better Keyboard Buttons in CSS
  3. Some Thoughts on Broadband Speeds in the WFH Age
  4. Happy Birthday @Summerbeth!
  5. Some updates to SuperTinyIcons
  6. Postel's Law also applies to human communication
  7. No software licence will save you from hyperbolic doubt
  8. I hate subscriptions
  9. You've got to show up to make a difference
  10. Dark Mode and Transparent Images
  11. Building a physical tag!
  12. Semantic Dates in Wagtail Blog Posts
  13. Book Review - Teaching Medicine and Medical Ethics Using Popular Culture ★★★★★
  14. Building an "On This Day" site for your Twitter Account
  15. LED strips for under-bed lighting
  16. Mondrian Windows
  17. Feature Request for GitHub - commit *as* an organisation
  18. PGP Sign Your Twitter Messages
  19. Finding your most popular Tweets
  20. Book Review: Beyond the Labyrinth by Gillian Rubinstein ★★★★★
  21. Review: Ring Fit Adventure
  22. Improving WordPress Video Accessibility
  23. Autograph hunting in Companies House
  24. Configuring Pop!_OS - Keyboard lights, fonts, and more
  25. Review: This is Shakespeare by Emma Smith ★★★★★
  26. Fix screen tearing on rotated external monitors (Ubuntu / POP!_OS)
  27. A small accessibility improvement to WordPress
  28. Gadget Review: Perixx Trackball (PERIPRO-506) on Linux / Mac
  29. Review - Clevo N151CU / Lafité IV / System76 Darter Pro / Entroware Proteus
  30. A (partial) list of vanity identifiers
  31. When part of your job is *not* caring

April 2020

  1. How to take solar export readings on the Honeywell AS302P smartmeter
  2. Google Chat Nearly Got Me Fired
  3. Default Ordering Of Title Options
  4. Gadget Review - Nooie 360 Security Camera
  5. Things I can't do on MacOS which I can do on Ubuntu
  6. How not to use the label element
  7. Removing default metadata from .opus files
  8. Accessibility of macOS - large cursor hides tooltips
  9. Dude! I'm getting a (Linux) Dell! Maybe...
  10. Happy Birthday to My Mother - The Monster
  11. Comparing Solar Panel Generation - East/West split
  12. How to fake Progressive WebP Images
  13. Tech Review - Rock Pi S
  14. Vertical Monitor Review - Iiyama ProLite B2482HS-B1 24"
  15. Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Feynman
  16. Relaunching @edent_solar. Part 5 - Getting data out of Fronius Solarweb
  17. My WFH Set Up
  18. Why would I ever leave my house again? (Do I have Stockholm Syndrome?)
  19. Hacking your Smart Meter - Part 1 - Zigbee
  20. Some thoughts on selling electricity back to the grid
  21. Proximity is a key indicator of function
  22. This blog strips off for CSS Naked Day
  23. WTF - Welcoming The Future!
  24. Pause Internet Access on Virgin Media
  25. Racist Stickers off our streets
  26. Netizens or Webizens?
  27. The Laptop of Theseus
  28. Common CV mistakes made by Senior Leaders
  29. How I'd redesign Twitter (and why it won't work)
  30. Things I think I'm wrong about - part 1 - Online Voting

March 2020

  1. Getting Interview Questions In Advance
  2. Designing for people who don't want to use your service
  3. Relaunching @edent_solar. Part 4 - Dual String MPPT APIs
  4. Relaunching @edent_solar. Part 3 - API & Code
  5. Relaunching @edent_solar. Part 2 - Inverter
  6. Relaunching @edent_solar. Part 1 - installation
  7. Manual Of Me
  8. "file:///C:/users"
  9. 2019 🆚 2020
  10. Accessibility is a public health issue
  11. Not Shaking Hands Feels Weird
  12. Doesn't everyone have unlimited data?
  13. Programming Languages - look how far we've come!
  14. The Evolution of Reg
  15. Zoom's forced app is irresponsible
  16. GDPR and common sense
  17. It will cost you £500 not to attend this conference
  18. It's OK to lie to WiFi providers
  19. Week Notes - COVID19
  20. Everything you know about Twitter character counting is wrong
  21. One Avatar To Rule Them All
  22. My 2FA Code was 000 000!
  23. Should panoramic images be part of the HTML5 specification?
  24. Book Review - Touch by Claire North ★★★★⯪
  25. Book Review - The Future of Feeling ★★⯪☆☆
  26. Who is Facebook's mysterious "Lan Tim 2"?
  27. Bluetooth MAC, K-Anonymity, and Population Privacy
  28. It is spelled "URl"
  29. If you don't sell it, I can't buy it
  30. Remove the first few lines from a string in PHP
  31. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 12

February 2020

  1. Simplifying SETI
  2. Weeknotes: Reading Week
  3. Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App
  4. Abstinence isn't safe - why quitting social media isn't the solution
  5. Book Review: Sherlock Holmes vs Cthulu ★★⯪☆☆
  6. Bitly finally starts taking privacy seriously
  7. Book Review: Something Beginning With ★☆☆☆☆
  8. "Her frown lies betwixt two fickle eyes" - Teaching an AI to write Shakespearean Sonnets
  9. Book Review: A Short History of Myth ★★⯪☆☆
  10. Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers!
  11. Book Review: The Pursuit of William Abbey ★★★★⯪
  12. Technology, Interrupted
  13. Book Review: The Memory Illusion ★★★★★
  14. Turn an old eReader into an Information Screen (Nook STR)
  15. Book Review: Sapience ★★★★⯪
  16. Coming Out Stories
  17. Book Review: Alone Together ★★★★★
  18. Post-It Notes aren't Agile - they're wallpaper
  19. Book Review: The Guilty Feminist ★★★★⯪
  20. Responsible Disclosure - John Lewis
  21. Book Review: Sorcerer to the Crown ★★★★☆
  22. Characters in Shakespeare with No Lines
  23. Book Review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism ★⯪☆☆☆
  24. Bitly Emoji Links
  25. Book Review: Just One Damned Thing After Another ★★★★⯪
  26. Posting Audio to Twitter
  27. Book Review: The Entrepreneurial State ★★★★☆
  28. In the future, will computers be faster or slower?
  29. How often would you like to get paid?

January 2020

  1. Strategies for linking to obsolete websites
  2. Your webcam cover is messing up your screen brightness
  3. Bug report: 4K iPlayer on the Amazon Fire Stick
  4. How we organise and store thousands of UGC photos
  5. Toshiba / Vestel Engineering Menu - 4725
  6. Bouncing all my music down to Opus
  7. HOWTO: Regenerate Gravatars in WordPress
  8. Book Review - Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium ★★⯪☆☆
  9. Boring Is Beautiful
  10. Notes from GovCamp 2020
  11. What's the fastest legal use of the Internet?
  12. Joining the board of OpenUK
  13. What Happens at #GovCamp Stays at GovCamp?
  14. The commons we've enclosed
  15. Why API responses should be signed
  16. When do symbols stop being political?
  17. Digital Scarcity is a Con
  18. Even Google forgets to renew its domains
  19. Why I make my work calendar public
  20. Weeknotes: A year at #NHSX
  21. A year of going cashless - and where it hasn't worked
  22. What's the most annoying gadget you own?
  23. User Stories From The Blokechain
  24. OpenBenches is a recipient of a Microgrant!
  25. Why can't mobile networks stop spoofed calls?
  26. Why do we have different programming languages?
  27. Book Review - Kindred ★★★★★
  28. The value of videogames (or, why I think Untitled Goose Game was a rip-off)
  29. Scammers registering date-based domain names
  30. Another year over, and what have you done?
  31. USB-C powered Bluetooth Headphones - the Life Q10 from Anker

2019 174

December 2019

  1. Silver Haired Bias
  2. Book Review: Mismatch by Kat Holmes ★★★★⯪
  3. My first visit to a hairdresser in a decade
  4. The future of the web, isn't the web
  5. Book review: This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone ★★★★★
  6. A hiring test I'd like to run
  7. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 11
  8. Book Review: The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon ★★★★☆
  9. Sometimes, there is an objective truth
  10. Guide: Add an English Dictionary to Boyue Likebook eReaders
  11. Add review to Goodreads from Schema markup
  12. Hashtag Steganography
  13. Convert DOI to a HTML5 / Schema citation
  14. Thames Water don't get password security
  15. When is an Electric Car not an Electric Car? When TfL say so!
  16. Use-cases wanted! Adding dietary requirements to Schema.org/Person
  17. Book Review: Zero Sum Game by S. L. Huang ★★★⯪☆

November 2019

  1. The 360 Selfie
  2. "Do you have kids?" - "Thankfully, no."
  3. Why doesn't everything charge via USB?
  4. How much should it cost to charge a car?
  5. Gadget Review - Boyue Likebook Ares
  6. "Alexa? Which bins do I need to take out?" - Reverse engineering the Bexley Council bin collection API
  7. Mixing Hue and Innr Smart Lights
  8. Responsible Disclosure: SVG injection in Three.co.uk
  9. Review: Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch ★★★★⯪
  10. Can you trust CloudFlare with your personal data?
  11. Creating an "Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality" map with OpenStreetMap
  12. New Year's Resolutions
  13. A Year In Review
  14. A year of actually reading books
  15. A selfie with a serial killer
  16. Gadget Review: DophiGo DV-200 WiFi Doorbell
  17. Book Review - The Chemical Detective by Fiona Erskine ★★☆☆☆
  18. Review: The Force Awakens - live in concert
  19. Why doesn't Twitter block Tweets properly?
  20. GPS at 30,000 feet
  21. You Have To Take People With You
  22. My guaranteed✱ method for beating UK / Australia Jetlag
  23. Book Review - The Five by Hallie Rubenhold ★★★★★
  24. How to present at a hack day
  25. Christian Names (part 2)
  26. The law leaves skeuomorphs in language
  27. You are not the Devil's Advocate
  28. Some criticisms of "I, Pencil"
  29. The Corridors of Power
  30. The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork

October 2019

  1. Book Review: Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman ★★⯪☆☆
  2. Doctor Who and Red Dwarf are part of the same universe. PROOF!
  3. How should couples handle joint email addresses?
  4. Episode 32 - Switching from being a developer to being a manager
  5. Book Review: Permanent Record ★★⯪☆☆
  6. Book Review: Helpful Hackers ★★★★⯪
  7. Book Review: A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier ★★☆☆☆
  8. Episode 31 - Modernising the Ministry of Justice
  9. Book Review: Queer Privacy - Sarah Jamie Lewis ★★★⯪☆
  10. Book Review: The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★★⯪
  11. Episode 30 - The Science of Laughter - with @Suw
  12. Book Review: Jennifer Government - Max Berry ★★★★☆
  13. Book Review: Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez ★★★★★
  14. Book Review: Turn the Ship Around - L. David Marquet ★★★★☆

September 2019

  1. Book Review: Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson ★★★★⯪
  2. Book Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me? - Lee Israel ★★★⯪☆
  3. How to rescue blocked files from Gmail
  4. Book review: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★★★
  5. Quick and Dirty Self-Hosted Alexa Skills (2019)
  6. Book Review: Playing With Fire ★★★☆☆

August 2019

  1. Episode 29: The Pod Delusion Strikes Back!
  2. The Usability of Unboxing
  3. Book Review: Do No Harm - Henry Marsh ★★☆☆☆
  4. Book Review - Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula ★★★★☆
  5. Is LogMeIn leaking email addresses?

July 2019

  1. I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society - one week of empathy training
  2. Documentally and Backpack Studio
  3. Perhaps the meat lobby has a point...?
  4. Book Review: Deep Medicine - Eric Topol ★★★★☆
  5. How I got my username on (nearly) every site
  6. Tell the audience what you want them to do
  7. Sending 1.2 Million Tweets

June 2019

  1. Quirks and Limitations of Emoji Flags
  2. Episode 27 - Hannah Cameron's makerspace adventures
  3. NHS Hack Day
  4. Alexa Skills - get custom slot names using Flask-Ask
  5. The worst morale boosting gesture I've experienced
  6. Episode 26 - Dan Pope's trntxt.uk
  7. Introducing the new HTML element - welcome <clippy>!
  8. Review: The Jennifer Morgue ★★☆☆☆
  9. Queer Computers In Science Fiction
  10. Falsehoods programmers believe about flags

May 2019

  1. HOWTO: Add sponsorship to a GitHub project
  2. 102KB ought to be enough for any email
  3. How to run a tech swap shop at a conference
  4. Invisible Pink Unicorns - a Firefox emoji rendering bug
  5. Warning - do not click on Twitter ads
  6. Review: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember - Annalee Newitz ★★★⯪☆
  7. Adding Sign Language to HTML5 video
  8. How much would it cost to buy every domain name?
  9. A report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting
  10. Review: 84K by Claire North ★★★★⯪
  11. Review: Shell Recharge
  12. Review: The Secret Barrister ★★★☆☆

April 2019

  1. Review: The City &amp; The City by China Miéville ★★★★★
  2. Building an ersatz scanning table
  3. our day out
  4. Review: The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla ★★★★☆
  5. Review - The End of The Day by Claire North ★★★★★
  6. Is a smart electricity tariff worth it?
  7. Review: Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman ★★★★☆
  8. Episode 25 - The Pay Gap with Rainey David
  9. Review: 小鳳腿 (Vegan "Chicken" Drumsticks)
  10. Book Review: How Long 'til Black Future Month? - N. K. Jemisin ★★★★★
  11. The Secret Rules For Getting Hired
  12. Banish the � with Unifont
  13. Episode 24 - Sound Archiving with Thea Cochrane

March 2019

  1. Who can I hire to hack me?
  2. Weeknotes - Mid-year Review
  3. Why bother with What Three Words?
  4. Episode 23 - Sixty Second Security with Dan Raywood
  5. Scruffiness Privilege
  6. Recreating an old UK Government Coat of Arms
  7. Episode 22 - Recycling with TerraCycle
  8. Episode 21: Ada Lovelace Day Live!
  9. GovGeeks T-Shirts
  10. I don't have a community
  11. Book Review - Bad Blood ★★★★⯪
  12. What does "挨⎒" have to do with "<html"?
  13. Book Review - Inferior ★★★★★
  14. Book review - Alias Grace ★★★★⯪
  15. Crypto Scammers Abusing Twitter Cards via Redirects
  16. I have Thirty-One 2FA codes
  17. Emoji Alchemy

February 2019

  1. New Podcasts Coming Soon!
  2. I have 800 passwords
  3. Weeknotes - hello #NHSX
  4. Why does my remote control need to know my location?
  5. Two years of home heating data
  6. Book Review - Hello World ★★★⯪☆
  7. Is it creepy when brands pester you on social media?
  8. Tado API Guide - updated for 2019
  9. Book Review - Galileo's Daughter ★★★★☆
  10. Book Review - Why We Sleep ★★★⯪☆
  11. HOWTO: Split WAV and CUE files on Linux
  12. Abusing LinkedIn for better customer service

January 2019

  1. "I, Robot" - the 3 laws considered harmful ★★★★★
  2. Book Review - Longitude ★★★★⯪
  3. Hidden Data in NFC Tags
  4. Book Review - Death's End ★★★⯪☆
  5. Book Review - This Is Going To Hurt ★★★☆☆
  6. UK Gov Camp Weeknotes
  7. Amazon Prime Video's weird Unicode problems
  8. Extracting DVD-Audio on Linux, the modern(ish) way
  9. Review - Space Odyssey the Making of a Masterpiece ★★★★☆
  10. Review - Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race ★★★★⯪
  11. Review - Letters from Alcatraz ★★☆☆☆
  12. Augmenting the human hand - smart nails
  13. Review - Fukushima Dreams ★★★★☆
  14. Every Acronym I've Learned This Fortnight
  15. Review - The Bloodline Feud ★★⯪☆☆
  16. Automatic preview image based on screenshot
  17. Review - Sapiens ★★★★☆
  18. Review - The Hazards of Time Travel ★★⯪☆☆
  19. HDCP is ridiculously annoying - DRM sucks for consumers
  20. Review - The Psychology of Time Travel ★★★★☆
  21. Weeknotes - Leaving The Comfort Zone
  22. Review - Billion Dollar Whale ★★★★☆
  23. Review - Was This In The Plan? ★★★★★
  24. Harvesting phone numbers and email addresses from GitHub
  25. Plot twist!
  26. Review - Autonomous by Annalee Newitz ★★★★⯪
  27. €100 Bug Bounty from Intigriti - please stop tracking your confirmation emails!
  28. Chromebooks aren't accessible - a five-year-old bug
  29. Review: Nina is Not OK ★★★★★
  30. How to become an award-winning cosplayer on the cheap
  31. Review: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think ★★★★★

2018 118

December 2018

  1. $3k Bug Bounty - Twitter's OAuth Mistakes
  2. PodCast review: This Week - The Musical
  3. Open Glasgow's Moral Maze
  4. Using the WordPress mShots Screenshot API

November 2018

  1. Top 10 reasons to attend an all-male event
  2. Major sites running unauthenticated JavaScript on their payment pages
  3. Building an Alexa-Powered Electric Blanket
  4. Should you use SRI for self-hosted scripts?
  5. OpenBenches - some stats
  6. I've broken myself - dealing with RSI
  7. Dynamic JavaScript and SRI
  8. The Myth of the Pixel Perfect Grid
  9. Redirect GitHub ID to Username
  10. Diverse or Representative?
  11. Responsible Disclosure: CloudFlare - more interested in tracking than security
  12. Stand Up Comedy - Dealing With The Fear
  13. Week Notes - A Year In Review
  14. The unreasonable psychological effectiveness of the LISA
  15. Review: BitWarden - the better password manager
  16. People who live in smart-houses, shouldn't throw parties
  17. "Please interrupt me if I use an acronym or term you don't understand"
  18. Annoyed by Android's circular icons? Here's how to fix them
  19. A love-letter to OpenDataCamp #odcamp
  20. Telnet control of Toshiba Smart TVs
  21. Anything Goes Should Get Gone
  22. Review: MoneyDashboard
  23. YoreComputer - examining 1980s popular computer culture
  24. Who owns the copyright to my medical images?
  25. Review: Kia Soul EV
  26. Security issues on ArtChain
  27. Why I'm Bored Of Video Games
  28. Extracting your data from Untappd
  29. How to support this blog
  30. Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters

October 2018

  1. Forbidden Unicode
  2. Week Notes - Two Years at GDS
  3. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Classic Who!
  4. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 10
  5. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 9
  6. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 8
  7. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - The Day of the Doctor
  8. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 7

September 2018

  1. The mobile phones of Doctor Who - series 6
  2. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 5
  3. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - The Specials
  4. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 4
  5. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 3
  6. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 2
  7. Review: Meross Smart Lightbulb - MSL120
  8. The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Series 1
  9. Snarking on the Internet
  10. Please don't print this weeknote
  11. Real fuel efficiency of an electric car? 165MPG
  12. Convert WebVTT to a Transcript using Python
  13. Reflections on #EMFcamp - a Science-Fact Convention
  14. Week Notes - Sick Note

August 2018

  1. Week Notes 5
  2. Enabling Voice-Over-WiFi on the OnePlus 5T and Three UK
  3. Weeknotes 4
  4. Why Android Pie Won't Be Getting the Copyleft Symbol
  5. Easy guide to building Mastodon bots
  6. Virgin Media don't understand Unicode
  7. Weeknotes 3
  8. Twitter's Secret "Guest Mode"
  9. Review: Meross smart plugs and surge protector
  10. Digital Justice Part 2 - It Just Gets Worse
  11. Nudity detection in AI - why diverse data sets matter
  12. Week Notes 2
  13. Responsible Disclosure - Citizens Advice Bureaux

July 2018

  1. Week Notes - July 2018
  2. Digital Court
  3. Scam calls threatening a lawsuit from HMRC
  4. Interesting Failures - Group Calling
  5. Electrical Neutrality
  6. What does a robot look like?

June 2018

  1. Personalisation is Asymmetric Psychological Warfare
  2. Limitations of HTML's title element
  3. How I became Leonardo da Vinci on the Blockchain
  4. Is HTTP 451 suitable for GDPR blocking?
  5. How long should you continue a boycott?
  6. Decentralised Food Safety Reviews

May 2018

  1. Things For Which Cryptographic Signing Would Be Useful
  2. Privacy, Security, &amp; Ethics - Computer Science's "Jüdische Physik"
  3. Review Evoluent Veritcal Mouse C
  4. No More Conference T-Shirts, Please!
  5. Using the Evoluent VMCR C Series Vertical Mouse with Linux

April 2018

  1. Knowledge Illusions
  2. Synthetarianism
  3. Would you trust this ATM?
  4. What is a signature?
  5. How to detect 3D video?
  6. Hundreds of thousands of spam listings on Google "My Maps"
  7. Everything Is Too Complicated
  8. Tools to defeat fake news - Reverse Image Search
  9. Udacity Bug Bounty - or, please stop tracking every link in your emails
  10. Interesting Failures - Visual IVRs
  11. Ad Blocking As A Radical Political Act
  12. Reconstructing 3D Models from The Last Jedi
  13. Outsourcing
  14. What do we do about people who don't get the joke?

March 2018

  1. Obsolete Technology in Unicode
  2. How to avoid JPG compression on Twitter
  3. Usability of Key Distribution in BlockChain Backed Electronic Voting
  4. The "Make Everything Better" Button
  5. Convert Surround Sound WAV albums to individual opus files
  6. Inclusivity Tips for Conference Speakers

February 2018

  1. This SVG always shows today's date
  2. A curious way to break Twitter's search results
  3. Advertising Screens Hacked To Mine BitCoin
  4. Updating all the examples in the HTML5 Spec

January 2018

  1. Artificial Intelligence is a Horseless Carriage
  2. Context-Aware Text Recognition?
  3. The Policy Hack
  4. MailChimp leaks your email address
  5. Emotional Technobabble
  6. Review - BlueSkySea DashCam
  7. Using canvas to shrink images for Google Cloud Vision
  8. Review - Linxtech IN1601 Mini Drone ★★☆☆☆

2017 97

November 2017

  1. How do you move out of a smarthome?
  2. Make your hackday vegan
  3. There's no HTTPS for the Internet of Things
  4. CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human - they prove you're American
  5. Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG
  6. Review: RD810 LED Projector ★★★★☆
  7. Facebook is like a Credit Card
  8. 天坛公园 in Beijing
  9. Why aren't there any USB-C powered Bluetooth Headphones?
  10. Pursuit Podcast - Life, The Unicode, And Everything
  11. Co-Op Bank - Making Banking Inaccessible
  12. Musical Roombas!
  13. Another Year In Review
  14. Review: PowerAdd 360 Camera ★★★⯪☆
  15. Put a test-card at the start of your slides
  16. textarea placeholder bug in Firefox
  17. Telnet and Root on the Sercomm iCamera2
  18. Noli scribere Latine imaginem describere
  19. Renault's Secret Mileage API
  20. Don't Cover Your Webcam's LED
  21. Clarity is antithetical to authenticity
  22. Talking Solar Batteries With BBC Click
  23. What if your Internet Connected Fridge came with free electricity?
  24. The Browser Is The User's Agent. But Who Is The User?
  25. How to centre an icon inside a square and a circle?
  26. Adjusting timestamps on images with Python
  27. Solar Battery and Alexa - in 30 lines of code
  28. Yes, but what does your startup *do*?
  29. <input type="country" />
  30. A grumpy look at using a Yubico Neo NFC on Ubuntu &amp; Android

October 2017

  1. An Animation of Every Emoji
  2. What if a Fidget Spinner… but for phones?
  3. Review: Guzzl Box
  4. Review: Goolrc T47 Drone ★★★☆☆

September 2017

  1. Review: Accessibility for Everyone ★★★★★
  2. Hackaday UK Unconference #HackadayUncon
  3. Review: IR Dome USB WebCam - perfect for Raspberry Pi

August 2017

  1. LG 360 Camera Review
  2. Import Images From A Migrated WordPress
  3. A USB Charger That Goes Up To 11 10
  4. Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element
  5. Bug with Google Pay and Amex
  6. Review: Sonoff 433 RF WiFi bridge

July 2017

  1. Using YouTube to Transcode Videos to DASH on the Command Line
  2. Alexa - what bin day is it?
  3. UK Flood Forecast on Amazon Alexa
  4. Previewing Circular Avatars
  5. Review Nextion HMI Touchscreen with GPIO

June 2017

  1. 2FA using a postcard!
  2. Review: Svpro 3D Camera - for Android and Raspberry Pi
  3. Easy Tutorial For Getting Twitter Friends Using Python &amp; Tweepy
  4. Alexa powered smarthome control for Sonoff
  5. User Safety at Product Hunt

May 2017

  1. Review: Sonoff Pow - WiFi power switch and monitoring
  2. únicode is hard
  3. Review: Sonoff S20 WiFi Plug
  4. Long Exposures - Creating Average Frames From Movies
  5. Fixing Broken Zip Files from Bandcamp - File name too long
  6. A Turing Test For Self-Driving Cars
  7. The Twitter Logo As SVG Circles
  8. A Vegetarian in Beijing
  9. Amazon Alexa and Solar Panels
  10. Internet Connected Lightswitches - Redux!

April 2017

  1. Whatever happened to URI Schemes?
  2. How I built a responsive &amp; semantic "Contact Me" page in under 16KB
  3. Creating a generic, open source, check-in app
  4. Building Darth Vader

March 2017

  1. Stop! You're talking to fake customer services on Twitter!
  2. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Families
  3. KYLI - because it is superior to JSON
  4. Where do these arrows point?
  5. Training Customers To Be Stupid
  6. Inspecting Solar Panels using a Drone
  7. Today was very mixed emotionally
  8. How to Hypnotise an Artificial Intelligence
  9. Visualising Twitter Conversations in 2D Space

February 2017

  1. Converting filenames to Title Case in Linux
  2. Charity Fundraising Using VR
  3. Can I own my identity on the Internet?
  4. Accessibility - you can't search Twitter for Alt-Text
  5. Self-inflicted Denial of Service on GitHub (Disclosed)
  6. The Robot Had A Nose
  7. I don't have an email address - so what?
  8. Mistakes in molecular gastronomy
  9. What's the future for the .tel domain name?

January 2017

  1. Dirty Flashing LineageOS for the Nexus 6
  2. Anatomy of an Amazon Phishing Attack
  3. By Act of Parliament 1603: One Mulberry Tree
  4. Rules for Cooperative Poker #JanJam17
  5. Don't redact FOI answers with a marker pen
  6. Review: PITAKA Carbon Fibre Wallet ★★★★⯪
  7. Introducing CAVE TEAM - a new board game #JanJam17
  8. You need a SIM card in your phone to dial 999
  9. Experiments in Molecular Gastronomy #1 - Apple Agar Strips
  10. Asymmetric Latency
  11. Sort Folders Into Alphabetic Sub-Folders
  12. Add date metadata to MP4 videos

2016 122

December 2016

  1. Replacing IFTTT - Part 1: RSS &amp; Tumblr
  2. Some thoughts on Amazon's 2FA
  3. The Uncanny Valley of Consent - when advertising gets creepy
  4. Building an Internet Connected Fridge
  5. Review: Omega2 IoT Prototyping Board
  6. Review: Vegetarian Caviar Club
  7. Virgin Wines Misleading Adverts
  8. Converting RAR to ZIP in Linux
  9. Would you fall for this phishing scam?
  10. Can you open someone else's mail?
  11. Review - Kula Shaker 20th Anniversary Tour 🕉 ★★★★★
  12. Virgin Media are hijacking your router - again!
  13. Cheesemas!
  14. Headphones displaying album art

November 2016

  1. Inside a Chipolo Plus
  2. Opera inserts advertising into your bookmarks
  3. An "on this day" plugin for WordPress
  4. Google's AMP is a gilded cage
  5. Introducing @FiverFun - silly things on Amazon for under £5
  6. Does Google's Hiring Process Put Off Talented Applicants?
  7. Interesting Email Metadata
  8. Password Hashing In The Browser
  9. Talking SmartHome tech on Radio 2
  10. Review: Chipolo Plus
  11. Tales of the Algorithm: The Transparent Man
  12. Making a Twitter Collage
  13. A look back at 2016
  14. Full Disclosure - This Bluetooth tag is leaking your personal data
  15. Radio 4 IoT Talk
  16. Great Western Rail's Contempt For Customers
  17. My solar batteries on BBC's You &amp; Yours
  18. How 3D is Star Wars The Force Awakens?
  19. Edible Logos
  20. Death Etiquette For The Social Media Age
  21. Promoting With 💩
  22. The (Connected) House Of Horrors
  23. How Do You Sort Chinese Numbers?
  24. Should You Compensate Slave Owners?
  25. Donald Trump's Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card
  26. Would anyone be interested in a retro-tech conference?
  27. How bad is Scotland's Computer Science Exam?
  28. The "Women Are Broken" Industry
  29. Deciphering The Iffley Knot
  30. Newvember - New Job!

October 2016

  1. Reverse Engineering the Renault Zoe API
  2. Twelve Thousand Miles in an Electric Car

September 2016

  1. Review: The Oittm Realsound Bluetooth Speaker
  2. Regeneration
  3. Terrible emails from @nest
  4. Why can't you send email to a Chinese address?

August 2016

  1. App Showdown - Zapper 🆚 MusicMagpie
  2. What Time Is It?
  3. Debuffs, Enchantment, Equipment, and Players - an RPG Player's Guide to User Stories
  4. Scaling Is A Human Problem Too
  5. Should you open your WiFi during a disaster?
  6. Technology Preview - The ReSpeaker
  7. Review &amp; Teardown: Oittm Bluetooth Headphones RE-E01
  8. Easy ways to add watermarks to images and videos in Linux
  9. Reducing the filesize of complex 3D .OBJ models

July 2016

  1. IANA Insanity - or, how I learned to stop .worrying and .love the .new .internet
  2. The Revisionist History of Mad Magazine
  3. Review: A £60 Android Tablet - Onda V96 3G
  4. Don't use negative numbers for error codes
  5. How *not* to do a password change page
  6. PDFs are the Cheques of the 21st Century

June 2016

  1. A Brief History of Killing the Headphone Jack
  2. TinTag - Unboxing and Review
  3. PayPal doesn't care about 2FA security
  4. Why do some WebP Images appear upside down?
  5. The UK's Digital Driving Licence
  6. Sci-Fi Holiday Reading
  7. What Is "Internet Use"?
  8. Facebook is lying to you about needing its messenger app
  9. Review: Vallie - the on-demand car parking app

May 2016

  1. Lies, damned lies, and political billboards
  2. Brexit Lies
  3. Easy APIs Without Authentication
  4. Singing to my light bulbs
  5. Who is @GCHQ's "barneyrooster"?
  6. Disclosed - Lifx Security Issue
  7. The Ubuntu Tablet - A Review of the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition
  8. The Great British Shake Off

April 2016

  1. Generating Random Chiptunes on Linux
  2. Displaying WordPress Posts' JetPack Statistics Using stats_get_csv()
  3. The best damn Bluetooth Keyboard in the world!
  4. A curious new mobile phone scam
  5. How Twitter Developers Can Combat Abuse
  6. Review: Chipolo
  7. You Can't Be Banned From The Houses of Parliament✱
  8. You Don't Have To Lead In Order To Succeed
  9. Deconstructing The Sounds Behind The Lightsaber Dream Sequence

March 2016

  1. BMW *are* complying with the GPL
  2. Designing a Home Network for Hostile Devices
  3. The Future Is About To Get Weird
  4. Meet Maslow - The UK's Answer to Tesla's PowerWall
  5. Fire up your Raspberry Pi with Cayenne
  6. This isn't your question to answer.
  7. BMW and the GPL
  8. Minimum Viable XSS
  9. Counting Invisible Strings
  10. I'm in an RFC!
  11. The absolute horror of WiFi light switches

February 2016

  1. Discrimination
  2. BMW are sending their software updates unencrypted
  3. Inside a Physical Web BLE Beacon
  4. Cheap BlueTooth Buttons and Linux
  5. 3D Printed, Arduino Powered, Educational, Open Source, Micro-Robots!
  6. Smart Lights - Dumb Decisions
  7. Why I'm Boycotting Yodel
  8. Goodbye Amazon Prime
  9. Help! How do I extract 3D objects from PDFs?
  10. How to type Emoji in Ubuntu

January 2016

  1. Drive the car, tuppence a mile!
  2. For some people, life is harder than Chess
  3. A School For Scandal
  4. The Gender Politics of Conference T-Shirts
  5. Which Twitter User Receives The Most Citations on Wikipedia?
  6. Review: The Force Awakens Première
  7. Finding the Perfect Linux Laptop
  8. Watching The Detectives
  9. Works on my machine
  10. Review - Nexus 6 Battery Case

2015 107

December 2015

  1. When GOVUK is NSFW
  2. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you lose
  3. How To Style WordPress's Audio Player?
  4. What's Your Christian Name?

November 2015

  1. Raspberry Pi Zero Hidden In An Xbox Controller
  2. Responsible Disclosure - XSS Flaw at LetsSaveMoney.com
  3. Locating Objects Around The House
  4. Reverse Engineering the BMW i3 API
  5. Wildcard Email Domains and New TLDs
  6. YHDO Security Camera Review
  7. Would You Use Your Company's Product If You Weren't An Employee?
  8. Why isn't your Intranet public facing?
  9. SoundCloud Spammers On Twitter
  10. The MTV Problem With Product Managment
  11. Liberate Your YouTube Videos
  12. The Day Google Deleted Me
  13. A little retrospective
  14. Add "Pause" and "Wait" to your conference call details.
  15. Inside a WiFi Travel Router &amp; Charger
  16. WordPress Archive Calendar Widget
  17. Google's Yellow Is Too Mellow
  18. Rare Star Wars props, blueprints, and images
  19. Repairing the Sercomm RC8230 PTZ Camera
  20. Premature Subsetting of Web Fonts
  21. A Complete List of Every UK Government Domain Name
  22. A Polite Way To Say "Ridiculously Complicated"
  23. Notes on Digital Surveillance
  24. Solar Charging Electric Cars
  25. The Design Of Everyday Toilets
  26. An API for Amazon Wishlists
  27. Preserving Deleted Tweets
  28. Google's Secret Screenshot API
  29. Extreme Medicine Hackathon
  30. Twitter's Weird Control Character Handling

October 2015

  1. Doc Brown is a Crap UI Designer
  2. iBeacon Business Cards

September 2015

  1. i3 Electric Car Review
  2. Do Adults Need Conference Codes of Conducts?
  3. You Mustn't Criticise The Status Quo At A Hackday
  4. What I Read On My Holidays
  5. A Tale of Two Open Data Sets
  6. Security Risks of BYOD - Sponsored by Dell
  7. Migrants and Mobiles
  8. PGP Encrypt Twitter DMs with Keybase
  9. Replacing the battery on a Barnes &amp; Noble eInk Nook
  10. Get your Google Location History the hard way… Again!

August 2015

  1. Are @FGW Deliberately Trying To Confuse Their Customers?
  2. Track deletions on Twitter - AKA build your own Politwoops
  3. Sharing on Android is Broken
  4. Virgin Media's Free WiFi Sharing Comes With A Cost
  5. AC DC AC DC AC DC AC DC
  6. 128 WiFi devices ought to be enough for anyone...
  7. Anti-Social App Design
  8. Would you fall for this Twitter phishing attack?
  9. How To Stop Facebook Tagging Spam

July 2015

  1. The Beatles - Surrounding You With Love
  2. Exporting Multitrack Surround Files in Audacity
  3. Replacing The Battery on a Motorola Nexus 6
  4. Hear The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme Song In Different Languages
  5. PaddyPower SMS Spam Follow-up
  6. Searching For A Smile
  7. Splitting a Surround Sound Audio File in Ubuntu

June 2015

  1. Is Getting An Electric Car Cost Efficient?
  2. BMW i3's Web Browser
  3. Tech Review: Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop

May 2015

  1. Tech Review - Sabrent rotating USB Hub
  2. Web Based OAuth Is A Security Nightmare For Apps
  3. ZeleSouris Wireless Vertical Mouse and Linux
  4. How To Make Your Google+ Account Completely Private
  5. What's The Next Phone Box?
  6. Idiot's Guide To Getting Started with Raspberry Pi's GPIO Pins
  7. How Gmail lets spammers grab your attention with emoji
  8. Talking about SMS Spam with Radio 4
  9. Using Twitter To Predict The #GE2015 Outcome

April 2015

  1. Dealing with SMS Spam from @PaddyPower
  2. Review: Gearbest Orvibo Smart Remote
  3. Virgin Trialling 322Mpbs Broadband
  4. Oxford East Hustings

March 2015

  1. The Eclipse's Effect on Solar Power
  2. Review: Android Dash Cam
  3. Lessons From FameLab
  4. %e5%8d%90
  5. Don't Use Bit.ly To Advertise Your PGP Key
  6. This is what a graph of 8,000 fake Twitter accounts looks like
  7. Adding WiFi To A Roomba
  8. The Usability of Anti-Apartheid Encryption
  9. In The Abstract Podcast
  10. We can marry you off, wholesale.

February 2015

  1. Learning From Failure
  2. Facebook Mangles Unicode URLs
  3. Why your blog URLs should contain dates.
  4. Crafting A Perfect FOI Request
  5. *Almost* Open Data
  6. Coming Unstuck With The Nexus 6
  7. Working With The Twitter Videos API
  8. Dying For An iPhone
  9. Overlapping Animated GIFs
  10. Big Data As A Lethal Weapon
  11. Get Cheaper Amazon Prime *Without* Instant Video!

January 2015

  1. Running Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds on Linux
  2. Working With Twitter's Embedded Videos
  3. BlackBerry's "App Neutrality" isn't as crazy as it sounds
  4. How To Stop Twitter Auto Linking URLs
  5. Star Wars in Navajo
  6. Writing A "Choose Your Own Adventure" Story On Twitter
  7. New Year - New Dabr
  8. Why Does Twitter Think Facebook is Swedish?

2014 140

December 2014

  1. How To Use System Emoji With Webfonts?
  2. Do All Google Employees Have Perfect Eyesight?
  3. Lollipop UI Inconsistencies Represents Google's Failure Of QA
  4. A Year Of Solar Panels - Open Data
  5. Episode 20: @PipWillcox and the Digital First Folio of Shakespeare's Works
  6. Episode 19: Ancient Japanese
  7. Shakespeare's Honor
  8. Episode 18: @Kerpowla and @InspireWIT
  9. Introducing @1st_Folio_Scans - Shakespeare's First Folio on Twitter
  10. Episode 17: The @AmySharrocks Sea-fall Experience
  11. Episode 16: Kerri Russell talks about Digital Shakespeare #ShakeHack
  12. Disclosed - Minor Bugs in Keybase.io
  13. Episode 15: Museums At Night
  14. Episode 14: Wikipedia VIP with @PigsOnTheWing
  15. Shakespearean HackFest
  16. Episode 13: @RosieClarke Loves Toast
  17. Quantified Self-Consciousness
  18. Episode 12: ORCID with @PigsOnTheWing
  19. Minor Reddit Security Bug Fixed
  20. Episode 11 - Sketchnoting with @rohdesign

November 2014

  1. Qi on the Cheap
  2. Why I vertically align my code (and you should too!)
  3. Is Monument Valley Overpriced? Yes.
  4. Setting Up Ubuntu To Be *Just* Right
  5. Episode 10: Better Email #CampaignForRealEmail
  6. Episode 9: Accessibility with @LauraKalbag
  7. Episode 8: Infantile Spasms - @mcwoods
  8. Episode 7: The No Phone &amp; @Documentally
  9. Episode 6: Cloud Computing
  10. The Homograph Strikes Back - Another IDN Attack With Strikethroughs - Android
  11. Episode 5: Cray Super Computers
  12. Why Are @VirginMedia Hijacking My HTTP Connections?
  13. First Impressions: Android Lollipop on a Nexus 7
  14. Episode 4: The National Museum of Computing
  15. Episode 3: Future of Mobile - Podcast
  16. Ubuntu on a MacBookPro 8,2 running Yosemite
  17. About A Minute - Introducing Ind.ie
  18. Localisation is Hard - Nokia Here and Roundabouts
  19. Walking Under The Thames
  20. The Curious Case of Amazon's IMDb Adverts
  21. Introducing About A Minute - A New Podcast
  22. Do Comrades Dream of Electric Proletariat?
  23. Disassembling the MyKronoz ZeWatch Smart Watch
  24. Pair Programing At The Code Club
  25. Fronius and PVoutput
  26. Why do we continue to pay for open location data?
  27. Apartheid Boycotts
  28. Don't Use Colour To Indicate Binary States
  29. Private Eye - Not As Clever As They Think They Are
  30. WebDAV, SSL Handshake, OwnCloud, CloudFlare, and Ubuntu 12.04

October 2014

  1. Privacy and Security Flaw with CAB

September 2014

  1. Tim Berners-Lee and the Freedom of The City
  2. Preparing For A TEDˣ Talk
  3. The Internet of (Expensive) Things
  4. Another GOV.UK XSS Flaw
  5. 2FA Best Practice - Disable Autocomplete

August 2014

  1. Selecting Text In Images - Pure SVG, No JavaScript
  2. Spycatcher's Relevance in 2014
  3. Secure The Police!
  4. Dealing With Quadrophonic / DVD-A Files In Linux
  5. McAfee's Failure of Trust

July 2014

  1. UI - Law Of Proximity
  2. Care In The Community
  3. How I Got The UK Government To Adopt ODF
  4. Smart Watch - Wearable Technology Failure
  5. Why Can't Google Afford To Pay Its Startup Mentors?
  6. Sookie Stackhouse's Phone Has A Dreadful User Interface!
  7. Donating via SMS - using QR Codes
  8. My Facebook is not Your Facebook - AKA Block Early, Block Often
  9. Ignore Percentage-Based Cost Savings

June 2014

  1. Please Stop Retweeting Without Verifying
  2. The Solar Solstice
  3. Humin - A Zombie Idea
  4. Which Painting Do You Look Like? Comparing Faces Using Python and OpenCV
  5. Pareidolia and Computer Vision
  6. Laziness and Capitalism
  7. Dark Patterns - Opt-Out / Opt-In

May 2014

  1. Google Play Won't Accept PayPal
  2. ASCII Art in QR Codes
  3. Putting UK Flooding Alerts Onto Twitter #UKBLC14
  4. Cosmetic Changes to the Microsoft 4000 Keyboard
  5. Review - Wooden Phone Case for Galaxy Note 3
  6. Minor Privacy Flaw in iTunes API (Disclosed)
  7. Hack Da Police (and other emergency services) #UKBLC14
  8. XSS at Food.gov.uk - disclosed and fixed

April 2014

  1. Extracting Your Own Location Information From Google - The Hard Way
  2. Virgin Media Just Gave All Of Their Customers Plausible Deniability‎
  3. Submitting (Trivial) Linux Kernel Patches
  4. One MegaWatt, Baby!
  5. Quick Thoughts on Google Glass
  6. Minor DogeAPI Security Flaw [Disclosed and Fixed]
  7. Will Wireless Power Make The EU's Charging Standard Obsolete?
  8. How *NOT* To Do A Password Field
  9. 3D Printed Letter Press
  10. Measuring Solar Generation on a Fronius Inverter
  11. Wanted! Simple APIs Without Authentication
  12. Review: The Tiny Cubox Computer
  13. Don't Spend £800 on a Japanese Toilet - Buy a £30 Bidet
  14. USB Cables, Lightning Ports, and Foreskins

March 2014

  1. Interview on BBC Radio 4
  2. Can You Power an iBeacon with a Lemon?
  3. Removing Gmail From An Android Tablet
  4. Should Non-Lawyers Be Able To Understand Laws?
  5. [Sponsored] eBay
  6. Reactions to The Unsecured State
  7. Introducing Corkr at #NHTG14
  8. QR Codes on Energy Bills
  9. Passive Aggressive Trolling Co-Op Business Banking
  10. The Unsecured State Part 5 - Abandoned Inquiries
  11. The Unsecured State Part 4 - UK Government Websites Spewing Spam
  12. The Unsecured State Part 3 - 2,000+ NHS Security Vulnerabilities (Disclosed)
  13. The Unsecured State Part 2 - EduBase XSS (Disclosed &amp; Fixed)
  14. The Unsecured State Part 1 - UK Parliament XSS Flaw (Disclosed &amp; Fixed)
  15. Make Facebook (and other sites) Less Annoying Using CSS

February 2014

  1. Huffington Post UK XSS Flaw (Disclosed &amp; Fixed)
  2. I Still Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem
  3. Evading Profanity Filters Using Bi-Directional Text
  4. RTL Bugs
  5. Homoglyphs for SEO
  6. Homoglyph Attacks
  7. Where is this Pinterest Spam Coming From?
  8. How Should We Punctuate on the Web?
  9. Chumming Down
  10. Learning to Code vs Learning Computer Science
  11. Mydex XSS Flaw (Disclosed &amp; Fixed)
  12. Why My Mother Bought A BlackBerry Torch
  13. Should GOV.UK Run A Bug Bounty?

January 2014

  1. Another Google Privacy Flaw - Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information (Disclosed)
  2. Billions of Tweets
  3. Let's get the IEC Power Symbol into Unicode
  4. Newspapers Shouldn't Recycle Their Print Copy for the Web
  5. Malicious Use of the HTML5 Vibrate API
  6. The Hardest Problem In Encryption? Usability.
  7. UI For Drunks
  8. Poor IDN Support From Major Webmail Providers
  9. [SOLVED!] Why Are MessageLabs Blocking My Emails?
  10. Reverse Stereo on HP Premium Headsets
  11. Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 vs. Plants vs. Zombies™ 2
  12. Would You Shoot R2-D2 in the Face?
  13. Bloggers - Beware of the ASA

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