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I’m not really sure where the inspiration came from, but today I woke up wondering how you might be able to visualise time in a new and weird way. Perhaps it was the recent binary day, the last of my lifetime, which made me think of the idea for HexClock. Maybe it was just because [...]

Just sent this email around to the team at work: If you don’t know what that means, roll your eyes and think to yourself “bloody nerds” If you do, convert 11/11/11 11:11:11 binary into hex. (If you didn’t and you’re still reading this, it’s probably time to roll your eyes again.)

I saw that they were selling them in Tesco for £1.97. £1.97!! (If you could type capital numbers, those last ones would have been). It would have been rude not to. Especially as I already owned this guy from the first series: I’m sorely tempted to go crazy and collect the whole set.

What I’ve learnt / haven’t learnt about Ruby Well, there’s still a hell of a lot to learn about Ruby, but I feel that I now have enough of a grounding in it to start to know what I don’t know. I do know the basic structure of the language, how to read it, and [...]

Well, my date with Ruby is almost over. Tomorrow, the 7 languages in 7 weeks study group moves onto Io. I’ll tell you what though, I’ve learnt more about Ruby, it’s syntax, and how it generally feels to use in the last couple of days than I had done while attempting to learn it before. [...]

I have been very lucky in two respects over the last couple of days. Firstly, I had a book recommended to my called 7 languages in 7 weeks. The basic idea is that you’re taken through seven different programming languages in seven weeks. The author skips over things like how to install the environment, what [...]

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In today’s hack I wanted to play with a self organising particle system, so I set about writing a loop which worked out the distance between each particle and generated a force based on that. It was a lot to think about so I didn’t quite get it working in 15 minutes and decided to [...]

It’s certainly not the most exciting thing you’ll ever see, but hopefully things will start to change over the coming weeks/months when I really start to get a feel for which effects are created by certain of code. For my first lunch-time hack, I thought I’d give myself an introduction to processing.js. It’s not very [...]

Do you ever think it would be cool to tinker with a new technology/framework but never get to the end of a project because it gets stale and boring? Me too. So I’ve invented a new part to my daily routine called the lunch-time hack. The mission is simple: create something cool in 15 minutes. [...]