Learning a song by ear is the best way to get it into your fingers, and the most tedious. You play the same four seconds forty times, you can’t tell whether that’s an Am or a C, and the bass is buried under everything else. Chordsmith is the practice tool I wanted for that: load […]
If you run a website, you want to know who is visiting it. The stats that come with a lot of hosting, such as AWStats in Plesk, read the server logs, so half of what they report is bots, the pages are hard to read, and a simple question like “did anyone look at that […]
Live readings from the house, on a web page, without opening anything up to the internet. How it works, what I left off on purpose, and the two things that caught me out.
I’ve been building a TV app for Android TV and Fire TV, called TvStreme. It’s a streaming player for Xtream Codes services, the sort that give you a server address, a username and a password, and just as much a media player for your own network, playing video and music straight off a NAS or […]
I retired, and almost immediately started on the list. Not a bucket list of places to see, but a list of things I’ve always wanted to make. Software I could picture but never had the time to build properly while a day job was eating my hours. GlassDe.sk is the first of those to grow […]
Anyone who’s played in a band knows the admin is the real enemy. Who’s got the latest lyrics? What key are we doing that in? Which Friday can everyone do? Where did that setlist go? It ends up scattered across WhatsApp threads, scribbled sheets and one drummer’s memory. BandBook is my answer: a single songbook […]
I can finally play my Plexi without earache. Even in 5 watt mode, and even with the Two Notes Captur attached, the Plexi was still loud enough that I got an earful from the wife. So I’ve changed the setup. The Plexi’s FX loop send now goes into the power amp input of my JVM. […]
My old pedalboard power supply finally gave up the ghost, so I needed a replacement fast, and ideally something that did a bit more than the last one. I landed on the Harley Benton PowerPlant PowerBank+ Mk2, and a few weeks in I’m genuinely impressed. For anyone who doesn’t know it, this isn’t just a […]
A Lifetime of Two Shirts Some fans follow one club their whole life. I’ve somehow ended up with two, and both feel just as real.I’ve been a Burnley Football Club fan since 1972, when I went to my first game as a boy. Decades later, life took me to Cyprus, and I picked up a […]
Well, here we go again. Cyprus photovoltaics being cut off from the grid, after promises of improvements, still nothing. Anyone who’s had panels on their roof for more than a season will recognise the pattern by now. The scale of it is what surprises people once they see the figures. Between January and May 2026, […]
