Let's build a thing...

A thing about inventions, innovation, technology, and the random thoughts of a guy that dreams more than he sleeps, and thinks out loud between the real, the possible, the surreal, and often the plain old silly world we find ourselves inhabiting for a blink in time.

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

The Glorious, Agonising Power of Doing Absolutely Nothing

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I can still feel it. That specific, soul-crushing agony of 80s boredom. It was a physical sensation. A weight that started in your stomach a...
Saturday, 20 September 2025

The Tyranny of Choice, and Other Register-Based Problems

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I have a computer in my pocket that has, and I’m rounding down here for dramatic effect, approximately a bazillion gigabytes of RAM. It has ...
Wednesday, 10 May 2023

The Unfathomably Large Size Of Tiny Things

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When we talk about physical objects we have a tendency to describe them in three dimensions. That helps us understand the physical size of a...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Is your code eco-friendly?

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Do you realise that poorly written software is a contributor to global warming? Although I have absolutely no data to base this on, please...
Thursday, 21 February 2019

Robotic Chimney Sweep

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Cast your mind back... way back... okay, no, not that far, put the dinosaurs away and bring your mind forward a little... and... there we g...
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Wednesday, 20 February 2019

Data folding... yet another compression method

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Recently, I wrote about a compression technique I've called " Iteratively Sequenced Data Compression " making magnificent cla...
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Tuesday, 19 February 2019

When you need "big" and infinity is "too big"

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Today I came across a lazy calculator. I asked it a simple enough question, and in response, I was informed that the answer was "infini...
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