A friend recently let me know of a tiny program that runs a 3D scene with both audio and video. The executable, a .com file, is 64 bytes in size (yeah, that's pretty damn small!), and the camera angle is a flyover of a grassy field with a blue sky above. The audio is a single note played once, overlaid with the sound of a helicopter's whirring blades and a periodic swooshing noise that sounds like the wind. It seems too amazing to be real, especially when you've seen the video:

While trying to figure out how the Game mode on an Aura Activator works, I found myself in need of a simple tone generator. I figured that with modern JS Audio functions in the browser, it shouldn't be too hard to code one.

Tabs vs Spaces - which one should be used when indenting code? I'm going to spoil the suspense right away by saying that the answer is clearly Tabs. However, it would be remiss of me not to describe what we're talking about, and why Tabs are the correct^(TM) choice.

A friend who is studying Engineering at university asked me for help tutoring him for one of his degree projects where he was tasked with writing a voltage divider calculator:

With the magic of Vue, it's pretty easy to do a whole host of pretty cool things dynamically. As a quick example, here's a dynamic QR Code generator using a text box linked to the vue-qriously library.

This website is built using Vuepress and a little bit of Vue magic. The entire source for this site is on GitHub, and the config.js file has been set to build the site to the /docs folder. In GitHub this repository has been set to publish the site at /docs and has been given a custom domain name - mark.honeychurch.org.

Back in the early days of my foray into skepticism, I found a Chrome plugin called FishBarrel which makes it easy to gather data from a nonsense website and submit a complaint to the relevant regulatory body.

I became interested in cryptography a few years ago, and have been slowly working my way through Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography. From this, I became interested in simple forced decryption (cracking) of cyphers, and directed my attention to the ROT13 algorithm.

I was cleaning up my music collection yesterday by using Discogs, a great online Discography catalogue website, to download missing album cover art. I normally use the long-windedly named Album Cover Art Downloader to download cover art, as it's pretty good and can grab images from various sources (amazon.com, yahoo, buy.com) - but there are some albums, especially bootlegs and the like, that aren't on Amazon. While using Discogs I saw that they have artist images (such as the one on the right), and started to download these to use like Album Art images, by naming the file folder.jpg and placing it in the artist's folder (My music collection is organised by First Letter\Artist\Album, e.g. A\Aphex Twin\Hangable Autobulb).

At University we were tasked with creating a web page on the topic of patterns of innovation. I still have a copy of the page, and it shows a less than auspicious start to my website creating days!