• Explosions, overturning cars, and tea - operating the Scottish electrical grid in the 1980s
• Blogging like it's 1987: A post from my old text terminal
• A test of the new blog

• Our new woolly robot overlords - Robot knitting with a Raspberry Pi enabled knitting machine
• The save icon made real: Digital archeology of 1980s computer disks
• Recreating a favourite childhood jumper with OpenCV and Python
• Experiments in mesh networking with Rust and STM32WL LoRa chips

Behind the scenes:

• How I take computer notes using emacs and How I publish these notes

This site is a work in progress. The fonts and the margins are all wrong.

We heard a lovely clicking sound as we stood outside the St James Quarter shopping centre in Edinburgh. I looked up and saw around 100 pied wagtail birds chirruping away in the trees. Birds must find it handy having a John Lewis and Five Guys next door.