Writing
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The thing I unexpectedly like best about Snapchat
Why I’m enjoying Snapchat.
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Emails to RSS feed
How to receive emails as items in an RSS feed using Zapier.
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#satire
On Jenn Schiffer’s pieces on Medium, and people getting or not getting satire, and why Medium’s good for it.
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More rubbish
On writing for the blog.
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Quora
I quite like reading and writing things on Quora.
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Some 2013 conference talks to watch
A selection of apparently really good talks from this year.
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The Twelescreen code
About the code I wrote to make Twelescreen, and what else it can do.
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Twelescreen
I made a big-screen Twitter client devoted to showing Tweets from the UK and US governments and security forces because the Tweets seem scary.
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Ask About Going Home
About a Tumblr I knocked up to highlight the absurdity of the UK Border Agency’s and Home Office’s anti-illegal-immigration campaigns.
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‘Measuring America’ by Andro Linklater
My notes on this fascinating book about the history of mapping the continent.
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My new(ish) job and a decade of freelancing
On why I decided I needed a proper job after ten years of freelancing.
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Digital pianos
Some of what I’ve learned about the digital piano market. Also, how it compares to digital cameras.
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The Sound and the Fury playlist
A playlist for the BBC’s series ‘The Sound and the Fury’ on 20th century classical music.
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Mike Johnston’s Jazz Starter Kit playlist
A Spotify playlist for people who don’t know much about jazz but are interested.
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Year-by-year playlist
I made a playlist with a song named after every year since 1945.
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Our Incredible Journey
About my new site, chronicling what often happens when an internet start-up is purchased by a larger company.
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The Canadian iron ring tradition
Canadian engineers wear rings on their little fingers as a reminder of their responsibilities to the public.
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Decades-long projects
What I considered when starting the ten-year Pepys’ Diary project again.
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Pepys’ Diary starting again
The diary website and twitter account are starting again from the beginning.
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It’s always been true
Shoreditch has always been changing, like every other part of London, like every other part of every city.
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They hate competition
On companies hating competition.
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Slender gains
A bit from a review of a book by Katherine Boo, about how the poor complain about their neighbours more than they do about the rich.
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Midcult
Some bits about “midcult”, Dwight Macdonald’s term for middlebrow culture.
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Storing private files on Amazon S3 with Django and giving authorised users temporary access
How to do what that long title says, using signed URLs and all that stuff.
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Doing something
Programming scratches the same itch that building Lego used to when I was a kid.