Lead Technical Architect for BBC Sounds. These are my personal views and not the BBC's.
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Joined June 2007
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Nicholas Humfrey retweeted
(little) ANNOUNCEMENT: Alongside games at inkle, I’ve been tinkering with a time planning app for iOS. Today, I’m giving it a cosy corner on the internet:
✨ Selkie Design ✨
The app’s not (yet) named, but now there’s a site for updates!
Stay tuned: 👉 selkie.design
Nicholas Humfrey retweeted
I was lucky enough to visit the Nation Grid control room yesterday. A truly amazing team of really lovely folks doing a critically important job behind the scenes.
I was there in 2012, coal produced 44% of our electricity that day.
Yesterday, 0%.
We plan to shoot an update soon
I bought a speaker on eBay for our bathroom ceiling. It is going to take over half the ceiling.
Note to self: check sizes before impulsive bidding.
New speaker has separate woofer and tweeter but no crossover. I am going to bi-wire it into IKEA Symfonisk circuit board
Nicholas Humfrey retweeted
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Slightly dismayed to discover there is such a mixture of overhead power systems on Europe’s railways.
Will everyone slowly move towards 25kV? Or locomotives continue to have to cope with multiple voltages?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_kV_…
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Mountain bike ride is a good way to exercise a dog, he had a great time running through the snow! 🐶
Which audio codec does a normal phone call over 4G use? Presumably it doesn’t use the 13kbit/sec GSM 06.10 codec still?
Nicholas Humfrey retweeted
I believe more people should understand the physical aspects of the Interpacket Gap (should be called Interframe Gap)
At 100G, you have 0.96 nanoseconds between Ethernet frames transmitted. THATS MAGIC imo.
Interpacket gap - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interp…
The new W6100-EVB-PICO WIZnet board features Raspberry Pi 2040 and a W6100 Ethernet controller chip that supports #IPv6.
linuxgizmos.com/wiznet-board…
Mouser are selling it for £14.55: mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/W…
Nicholas Humfrey retweeted
We are evolving our data estate and this is an great architecture opportunity to join the team! Come work with Hannes Ricklefs, he's great :) #BBC #data #architect lnkd.in/ePTjpqev
I have built a web interface for editing the Binmark markup language. Complete with Download button for downloading a binary file.
aelius.com/njh/binmark/
ALT Screenshot of https://www.aelius.com/njh/binmark/. Showing Binmark markup being edited on the left and the resulting hex code on the right.
Genuine question: are there any examples where it is acceptable for publicly funded organisations to advertise commercial services?
#what3words | GMP encourage members of the public to download the what3words app before embarking on motor vehicle journeys.
For more information, read here: orlo.uk/JIDEZ
IOS: orlo.uk/1VIb8
Android: orlo.uk/azyC8
I have had a go at writing a Linux binary in Hex, to see how hard it is! Pretty hard is the answer. For a simple "Hello World!", most of the bytes are the ELF headers.
gist.github.com/njh/dca7932e…
I can see why assembly languages were invented! Pretty hard to understand the raw ARM instructions. It doesn't help that it is all little endian 🥚