I’m a Developer Educator with cloud communications platform Twilio, within its wireless and Internet of Things division. I spent the previous six years as the Senior Tech Writer and a Project Manager at IoT platform-as-a-service company Electric Imp.
Before that, I was a technology journalist, 13 out of 25 years spent in senior roles on the website The Register. At other times I contributed to a wide array of publications and news organisations, including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, the BBC and CNN.
This site is dedicated to assorted programming projects I’ve worked on over recent years.
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macOS Applications, Command Line Tools and Extensions
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ASCII
Latest Release: 1.2.1 04 February 2020
Character glyph design tool for 8x8 matrix LED-based electronics projects. -
Fighting Fantasy Game Manager
Latest Release: 3.0.15 07 February 2018
A Fighting Fantasy gamebook character and play manager written in Swift. -
MNU
Latest Release: 1.4.2 23 October 2020 New Version
A menu bar utility that provides easy access to macOS features and scripts you use every day. -
pdfmaker
Latest Release: 2.1.0 09 July 2020
A command line tool that combines multiple JPEG images into a single PDF file, and extracts images from an existing PDF file. -
PreviewMarkdown
Latest Release: 1.1.1 01 October 2020 New Version
An app that provides QuickLook support for Markdown files under macOS Catalina and above. -
Squinter
Latest Release: 2.3.133 10 December 2019
A development tool that helps programmers manage application code and library files for projects based on the Electric Imp IoT Platform. -
The Valley
Latest Release: 1.0.8 14 August 2020
A macOS port of a 1982 real-time RPG in true Commodore PET style.
iOS Applications
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Cløck
Latest Release: 2.1.122 05 December 2019
A Swift application to manage digital clocks based on the Electric Imp Platform. -
Controller
Latest Release: 1.2.0 06 December 2019
Swift code that provides an iOS management app and watchOS control apps for electronics projects. -
Fontismo
Latest Release: 1.1.1 01 October 2020 New Version
An app that provides access to high-quality open-licence fonts to iPad users.
macOS/iOS/tvOS Libraries
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BuildAPIAccess
Latest Release: 3.3.0 06 February 2019
An Objective-C class wrapper for Electric Imp’s impCentral™ API.
Python Applications and Libraries
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Hex
Latest Release: 1.1.0 09 April 2019
Utility for converting files to hex strings. -
HT16K33Segment
Latest Release: 1.0.0 04 March 2020
A driver library for HT16K33-based segment LED displays. -
Ski
Latest Release: 1.0.0 30 March 2019
A little bit of Python silliness: 8-bit retro ‘arcade’ action via ncurses... -
Spasm
Latest Release: 1.2.0 29 May 2019
A simple assembler/disassembler for the Motorola 6809 8-bit microprocessor. -
SSD1306
Latest Release: 1.0.0 11 March 2020
A driver library for SSD1306-based displays. -
Unicoder
Latest Release: 1.0.0 12 December 2019
A utility for converting UTF-8 character codes to hex strings -
XBeeParser
Latest Release: 1.0.4 09 January 2019
Decode data packets sent to or received by Zigbee-compatible Digi XBee modules.
Shell Scripts
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scripts
Latest Release: various
Miscellaneous Z and Bash scripts for a variety of Mac and Raspberry Pi tasks.
Electric Imp Source Code Repos
Apps
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MatrixClock
Latest Release: 2.2.9 21 May 2020
Retro style matrix LED clock. -
Cløck
Latest Release: 2.2.0 21 May 2020
Compact digital clock project. -
Weather
Latest Release: 3.11.9 21 February 2020
Simple weather forecast readout based on an 8x8 LED matrix. -
HomeWeather
Latest Release: 2.7.5 21 February 2020
Wall-mounted home weather station (forecast, temperature/time, rain gauge). -
ThermalForecastWorld
Latest Release: 1.10.1 16 July 2020
A very simple temperature readout device. -
EnvTailTempLog
Latest Release: 1.5.5 21 May 2020
Simple environment data sensor.
Libraries
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Location
Latest Version: 1.5.3 01 March 2019
Squirrel driver class to support Google's geolocation API on Electric Imp devices. -
Generic Squirrel Code
Latest Version: various 27 October 2019
Cross-project utilities. -
HT16K33Matrix
Latest Version: 3.0.0 06 February 2020
Electric Imp Platform hardware driver for the Adafruit 8x8 LED Matrix w. I2C Backpack. -
HT16K33Bargraph
Latest Version: 2.0.0 01 March 2019
Electric Imp Platform hardware driver for the Adafruit Bi-Color (Red/Green) 24-Bar Bargraph. -
HT16K33Segment
Latest Version: 2.0.1 07 February 2020
Electric Imp Platform hardware driver for the Adafruit 0.56in 7-segment LED w. I2C Backpack. -
HT16K33SegmentBig
Latest Version: 2.0.0 22 March 2019
Electric Imp Platform hardware driver for the Adafruit 1.2in 7-segment LED w. I2C Backpack.
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