Projects

Front page projects

• Theatricalia
  A publicly editable database of past and future theatre productions
• Find your nearest postbox
  Does what it says on the tin
• Live map of the London Underground
  In Geographic, Schematic, Skyfall, and Pacman flavours
• traintimes.org.uk
  The best site for looking up train times
• Dr Who subtitles
  Pretty visualisations of TV episodes
• Post Office Inquiry searchable transcripts
  Creating a nicer interface to the hearing transcripts of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry
• Rocking Horse text adventure
  “Reality: NOT TOO BAD” – Ryan North
• Find your nearest cashpoint
  Also what it says on the tin
• @secgen
  A bot posting what the UN Secretary-General is up to
• TwitPanto 2008/9
  Oh yes it is
• City of Birmingham Choir
  Next concert is St John Passion in Tewkesbury in April
• BBC News Archive
  Very old visualisations of a BBC News archive

Other projects

• Public Transport Outings
  Plan NT and EH trips by public transport, or see which properties are on the way by car
• Upcoming Iridium flares or ISS fly-bys
  On Mastodon or Bluesky.
• Upcoming Sarah & Duck
  It is important to know when it is on the TV
• Slack Away Plus
  Set yourself away and with a status at the same time with /gone
• Local Lockdown Lookup
  Look up the current and historical restrictions for your postcode
• Quintessence of Dust
  For the World Shakespeare Festival
• Google PageSpeed Badge
  A live badge of your website’s PageSpeed score
• Display a KML file on a map
  Google Maps used to be able to do this, but no longer, so I made this.
• Justified commits
  They are fully justified.
• Guess the Hamilton!
  Broadway or Formula 1?
• Great Ideas Generator
  Like YouTube, but for umbrellas
• Only Connect Babs
  Made with Clare Lovell at WAGHack
• Pepys Shows
  Samuel Pepys reviews the theatre
• Moon
  Live tweet commentary of the film by the director
• The Charlian
  “It's a bit like watching serial killer movies” — Charlie Brooker

Maths trinkets

• A handy Pyrgic Puzzle n-digit solver
• Prim’s algorithm finds the minimum spanning tree
• A script to simplify cyclic permutations
• Making 42 (using an idea from h2g2.com)
• An online Dijkstra algorithm, to calculate the shortest distance between two points on a network