• Dr Neil's garden and a walk from Drakkar's Drift - 22nd September. We explore some green spaces in Edinburgh, from Dr Neil's garden in Duddingston and walk from Victoria Park in the north along an old railway line and visit the Water of Leith.
• The future in the 1990s - Psion and Palmtop Magazine - 25th August. I scan in some computer magazines and look at how the ideas and handheld computers from that time shape our lives today.
• I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip - 20th August. Some thoughts about simpler computers, touching on some permacomputing and solarpunk ideas.
• Learning "E-book" binding for my new e-reader - 6th May. I bought a cute Xteink X4 e-reader and someone helped me make a hardback book style case for it.
• Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock - 11th April. We clamber around a clock tower to figure out how to set the time and then have a burger with a labrador.
• Repairing, and enjoying minidiscs - 27th March. I end up repairing some retro-technology and feeling quite pleased with myself.
• The "tinyweb" and a small webserver - 25th February. Hosting your own blog using a solar powered webserver.
• I made a bodgy open-source CAD system to avoid cleaning my desk - 24th February. My experiment at using AI to write software produced something vaguely usable and I think it would be interesting to expand this.
• Some photos: Light is coming back to Edinburgh! - 26th January. I spotted warm sunlight in Edinburgh after what seems such a long time.
• Bringing back music - we fixed the Hacklab amplifier - 25th January.
• EdinburghJS, personal mapping, and making kinder software - 21st January

• Digitising a moon landing recording - 14th December
• Hiding secret data in YouTube - 8th December
• When computers needed buildings - 28th November
• The secret names within Bob the dishwasher - 24th November
• Replacing a 48 year old Commodore PET with a Raspberry Pi Pico - 18th November
• Homespun radio: Making my own cosy internet radio station: Part1: Fixing my dad's 53 year old Lenco GL75 turntable - 18th October
• Homespun radio: Making my own cosy internet radio station: Part2: Using Icecast and Liquidsoap to stream the records - 18th October
• Getting a Psion 5mx online - 13th October
• Repairing a Psion 5mx handheld computer - 13th October
• We made apple juice - 2nd October
• How to web enable a Silver-Reed/Knitmaster SK580 knitting machine using a Raspberry Pi Pico
• Messy is fun: Hackerspaces and The Indieweb (The grunge, rather than the cloud)
• From 2021: Our solarpunk ebike conversion experiments
• 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.