Paint it Black, other free films
I discovered a decent movie to watch and then, quite by accident, an entire platform where you can stream movies and TV series for free – legally of course. I recommend both the film and the platform.
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Xbox Discounts as CSV File
I own a fair old number of Xbox games so when the weekly or special sales come about I need a quick way to see which titles would interest me. I wrote a small Python program to aid me.
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Random Game from RAWG
I enjoy video games so naturally have a backlog to get through. I like to randomly pick a game and if it suits my mood, I’ll play it or get another random game. Unfortunately rawg.io doesn’t have this feature so I’ve made one.
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Chesterfield Free Parking Map
Nobody likes paying for parking and perhaps another reason why Chesterfield is one of the happiest places to live – residents get free parking. The difficulty is the council doesn’t provide a map – no worries, I got your back.
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The Dull Men’s Club
THis web filtrate is a Facebook group. Although most people probably don’t award using Facebook with any ethical consideration, I need to first explain the deep web and then excuse myself for a reference to this content.
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Minecraft Server Migration to Realm
With Microsoft offering a free 90 days Minecraft Realm subscription in their Xbox Perks programme, I decided it’s finally time to close the dedicated server and adopt a realm. It appears nobody from the community (including myself) had really spent much time on the server since last year. While it’s not uncommmon for communities to lose momentum, it’s still sad to see a virtual home no longer be available.
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Chesterfield Round Walk Planned Sep ’23
Since managing a lengthy walk in one session, 40 miles around Cannock Chase, I have always wanted to do a large circular again. I attempted the Surrey Greensand Monster (18 miles) but failed three times – I was overweight and out of practice. Although my weight is reasonable, I have aged a decade since the Cannock Chase and I have another challenge to overcome.
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Can’t See The Wood for the Trees
Biology in the 90s focused on concepts of organisms and competition for environmental resources. A better paradigm to understand ecosystems is as a community of organisms. Sometimes though, organisms are so inter-dependent it almost seems archaic to still view them as separate. Take yourself, for example, you’re made up of individual cells. Are you a community of organisms or are you one organism?
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OWI Robotic Arm Control Program
Using work undertaken to communicate over USB with the OWI Robotic Arm, I wrote a program, in Python, to control the robotic arm.
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Hatton Coat of Arms
I was surprised a few years back about the name Hatton having such history and a coat of arms. As someone who rejects aristocracy, pageantry and heraldry; a coat of arms has little appeal to me and my sense of identity beyond that of gimmickry but indeed that’s how I intend to use ours.
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