I’m a Developer Educator with cloud communications platform Twilio for its wireless and Internet of Things division. Previously, I spent 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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Oh, and this site looks great in macOS/iOS Dark Mode, by the way.
macOS Applications, Command Line Tools and Extensions
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ASCII
Latest Release: 1.4.0 09 December 2020
Icon design tool for 8x8 matrix LED-based electronics projects. -
Fighting Fantasy Game Manager
Latest Release: 3.0.15 07 February 2018
A Fighting Fantasy character generator and game manager written in Swift. -
imageprep
Latest Release: 6.2.1 13 January 2021
A command line tool for batch-processing — crop, scale, pad, reformat — image files. -
MNU
Latest Release: 1.5.0 01 February 2021 New Version
A menu bar utility that provides easy access to macOS features and scripts you use every day. -
pdfmaker
Latest Release: 2.3.0 21 December 2020
A command line tool that combines multiple JPEG images into a single PDF file, or extracts images from PDF files. -
PreviewMarkdown
Latest Release: 1.2.0 04 February 2021 New Version
An app that provides QuickLook support for Markdown files under macOS Catalina and above. -
Squinter
Latest Release: 2.4.136 18 November 2020
A development tool to manage application code and library files for projects based on the Electric Imp IoT Platform. -
The Valley
Latest Release: 1.0.9 24 November 2020
A macOS port of a 1982 real-time RPG in true Commodore PET style. -
utitool
Latest Release: 1.0.2 08 February 2021 New Version
A macOS command line tool to reveal files’ Uniform Type Identifiers (UTIs).
iOS Applications
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Cløck
Latest Release: 2.1.122 05 December 2019
An iOS application to manage digital clocks based on the Electric Imp Platform. -
Controller
Latest Release: 1.2.0 06 December 2019
iOS management app and watchOS control apps for electronics projects. -
Fontismo
Latest Release: 1.1.2 21 February 2021 New Version
An iOS app that lets you install high-quality open-licence fonts.
macOS/iOS/tvOS Libraries
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Build API Access
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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FeatherClock
Latest Release: 1.1.0 03 December 2020
A compact clock project written in MicroPython -
Hex
Latest Release: 1.2.0 31 December 2020
A utility for converting binary files to hex strings. -
HT16K33 Python
Latest Release: 3.0.2 23 November 2020
A driver library for a range of Holtek HT16K33-based displays. -
Ski
Latest Release: 2.0.2 07 January 2021
Some Python silliness: 8-bit retro ‘arcade’ action via ncurses... -
Spasm
Latest Release: 1.2.0 29 May 2019
An assembler/disassembler for the Motorola 6809 8-bit microprocessor. -
SSD1306
Latest Release: 1.0.0 11 March 2020
A driver library for Solomon SSD1306-based displays. -
Unicoder
Latest Release: 1.0.0 12 December 2019
A utility for converting Unicode 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: 2.2.10 21 May 2020
A retro matrix LED clock. -
Cløck
Latest Release: 2.2.0 21 May 2020
A compact digital clock design. -
Weather
Latest Release: 3.12.1 21 February 2020
A weather forecast readout using an 8x8 LED matrix. -
HomeWeather
Latest Release: 2.7.7 21 February 2020
Wall-mounted weather forecast, outdoor temperature and time readout, and rain gauge. -
ThermalForecastWorld
Latest Release: 1.10.1 16 July 2020
A NeoPixel forecast temperature display. -
EnvTailTempLog
Latest Release: 1.5.6 21 May 2020
A basic environment data sensor.
Libraries
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Location
Latest Version: 1.5.4 01 March 2019
A Squirrel class for Google’s geolocation API. -
HT16K33Matrix
Latest Version: 3.0.0 06 February 2020
A driver for the Adafruit 8x8 LED Matrix I2C Backpack. -
HT16K33Bargraph
Latest Version: 2.0.0 01 March 2019
A driver for the Adafruit Bi-Color (Red/Green) 24-Bar Bargraph. -
HT16K33Segment
Latest Version: 2.0.1 07 February 2020
A driver for the Adafruit 0.56in 7-segment LED I2C Backpack. -
HT16K33SegmentBig
Latest Version: 2.0.0 22 March 2019
A driver for the Adafruit 1.2in 7-segment LED I2C Backpack. -
Generic Squirrel Code
Latest Version: various 27 October 2019
Assorted cross-project utilities.
Site and software copyright © 2021, Tony Smith
Site Last Updated: 23 February 2021 @ 21:01:42 GMT