Personal projects

A ten-year project to post the 17th century diaries online. It continues with readers’ annotations, an encyclopedia, maps, and more.

Quotes from Samuel Pepys’ 17th century diaries in real time, as if he’s tweeting now. Over 60,000 followers. Also on Mastodon.

A blog cataloguing the walls in movies, TV shows, games and comics that feature red string, photos, maps, cuttings, etc.

A blog recording the moments when start-ups are bought by larger companies, close down their service, and thank their users.

An easy-to-read edition of the Guardian or Observer newspapers. Read more about the idea from 2010.

A simple quiz for practising knowledge of Japanese characters. Originally from 2003, updated since.

From 2013, a single-page, one-tweet-at-a-time Twitter display, shown here with a 1984-esque theme. Read more.

The unofficial website for the film director. Started in 2001, now edited by Eric Burritt.

Python script to generate a .ics calendar feed from your Foursquare/Swarm checkins. Read more.

Scraping data about City of London councillors and making it explorable using Datasette. Read more.

Apps for the Django web framework, for copying your data from Flickr, Twitter, Last.fm and Pinboard. Read more.

Apps for the Django web framework for tracking book reading and event going. Read more.