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James Aylett: things I've done with computers

There are lots of things wrong with computers: they don't work half the time; they aren't remotely intuitive to most people; they never quite do what you want them to. But occasionally they can be useful, or at least fun.

BarCamp Sessions
BarCamp Sessions
  • Xapian, a search engine library with a few applications built on it
  • Tedium, a Twitter digest manager / web interface / spam filter / platform for growing and increasingly unrelated experiments
  • Outlook Reaper, for pulling emails out of Outlook in mbox format
  • flickbookr, a silly thing I built on top of flickr to turn photostreams into flick books (flip books, if you aren't British)
  • evil presentations, which will generate random presentations for you from Flickr (but, you know, evil).
  • atompub, an attempt to build a bigger RSS, which grew a reasonable publishing protocol as well
  • Google/BBC weather map mashup, which did pretty much what it said on the tin until the BBC changed their feeds to stop containing any useful information
  • Zap, a programmers' editor for RISC OS (work continues, but I don't have much to do with it any more)