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Some geeky projects that I’m involved with.

Twitter Stuff

@apollo11at50 was a Twitterbot that tweeted the Apollo 11 mission timeline in real time (well, shifted by fifty years) in summer 2019

Perl Stuff

  • My CPAN modules (and a dashboard showing their current status)
  • nms
    Web programs to replace the ones from Matt’s Script Archive (largely defunct now)

Local Stuff

I was trying to build up some local communities by aggregating content that might be of interest to them. You can see what I was doing at The Planetarium.

Most of my efforts were concentrated on Balham (as that’s where I lived at the time).

And there’s a site that does a better job than the official one of sharing data about Tower Bridge’s lift times.

Political Stuff

  • Planet Westminster attempts to aggregate all MPs’ blogs
  • TwittElection builds Twitter lists of all of the PPCs in each constituency in the UK general elections
  • Line of Succession shows the line of succession to the British crown on any day back to the start of the nineteenth century.

BBC Streams

Several years ago I wrote something that scraped the BBC radio web site and created a directory of all of their “listen again” streams. These days, the directory is still there but it looks a bit moribund – and anyway the BBC Sounds app does it all far better.

Emacs

Github

The source code to most of these projects will be found in my github account. Feel free to play with it – but please let me know if you do anything cool with it.