smittytone's Software Library

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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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macOS Apps, Tools and Libraries

ASCII

Latest Release: 1.4.0 09 December 2020
Icon design tool for 8x8 matrix LED-based electronics projects.
Build API Access

Latest Release: 3.3.0 06 February 2019
An Objective-C class wrapper for Electric Imp’s impCentral™ API.
Fighting Fantasy

Latest Release: 3.0.15 07 February 2018
A Fighting Fantasy character generator and game manager written in Swift.
HighlighterSwift

Latest Release: 1.0.0 17 June 2021
A Swift wrapper for the popular Highlight.js syntax highlighter.
imageprep

Latest Release: 6.3.3 23 July 2021
A command line tool for batch-processing — crop, scale, pad, reformat — image files.
MNU

Latest Release: 1.6.2 05 October 2021
A customisable menu bar utility that provides easy access to macOS features and scripts you use every day.
pdfmaker

Latest Release: 2.3.1 23 July 2021
A command line tool that combines multiple JPEG images into a single PDF file, or extracts images from PDF files.
PreviewCode

Latest Release: 1.1.1 19 November 2021
An app that provides QuickLook support for source code files under macOS Catalina and above.
PreviewMarkdown

Latest Release: 1.4.1 20 November 2021
An app that provides QuickLook support for Markdown files under macOS Catalina and above.
PreviewYaml

Latest Release: 1.1.1 19 November 2021
An app that provides QuickLook support for YAML 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: 1.0.4 23 July 2021
A macOS command line tool to reveal files’ Uniform Type Identifiers (UTIs).

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iOS Apps

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
An iOS app that lets you install high-quality open-licence fonts.

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Raspberry Pi Pico Apps

Hunt the Wumpus

Latest Release: 1.0.2 31 March 2021
Explore a mysterious and dangerous cave to locate a fiendish monster.
Phantom Slayer

Latest Release: 1.0.2 06 April 2021
Retro fast 3D maze shooting action coded in C.

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Python Apps and Libraries

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.